The Raw Truth

I am still in tears from watching this man on Meet the Press.

Aaron Broussard, President of Jefferson Parish, being questioned by Tim Russert:

MR. BROUSSARD: ...I want to give you one last story and I'll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, "Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?" And he said, "Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday." And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.

MR. RUSSERT: Mr. President...

MR. BROUSSARD: Nobody's coming to get us. Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody.

1:45 p.m. update: As I read on another blog (can't remember which, now), this means that the mother of the Emergency Management Services Director in Jefferson Parish died on Friday -- during Operation Photo Op.

While Bush was posing in front of fake food distribution centers, faking levee repair, and shutting down helicopter rescue services in New Orleans for 8 hours, this man's poor mother drowned in a nursing home.

What if -- just try to imagine, what if -- Bush had spent the money and resources he spent on Operation Photo Op on sending rescuers to the SEVENTY-SIX nursing homes in New Orleans, many of which are flooded. Do you think the old folks in the nursing home were able to comply with the supposed "mandatory" evacuation? Did they even hear about it? Think about that every time you hear another moron from the media or the administration talking about the people who didn't "obey" the mandatory evacuation. The onus is on the government to evacuate those people, and they didn't. Bush was riding his bike, Cheney was fishing, Condi was shoe shopping, Rummy was destroying Iraq, Karl Rove was spinning, and the Corporate Media was in their usual prone position.

When Bush is impeached, this poor woman's death during Operation Photo Op should be the first Article of Impeachment.