Just because someone saying "so and so DID NOT DO THEIR JOB" in regards to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina does not automatically mean that they are being political.
It means they think someone screwed up, and want them called on it.
Saying Bush screwed up the response is not "Bush-bashing" - it's calling the President to account for not fulfilling the responsibilities he took an oath to fulfill.
Saying the head of FEMA is incompetent is not political; if you've read his job history, you know it's the (sickeningly) plain truth.
Saying the government is not fulfilling their responsibility to the citizens is not being partisan - it's saying that the government is not fulfilling it's responsibility!
The same people who are making the accusations of "Bush-bashing" turn around and in the next breath call Sen. Landrieu "nuts" or "insane" for breaking down when she realized the work she'd seen being done on the levees (while on a flyover with the president) was only there for a presidential photo op- the next day, nearly all the equipment was gone.
These same people making accusations of "Bush-bashing" are busily trashing the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans, as well as any Democrat they can think to associate the failures. The audacity of the sheer arrogance is breathtaking.
Apparently calling any Republican to account is a terrible, politicized thing, but it's perfectly okay to trash any and all Democrats - at least according to some of these folks.
Demanding that our government get their freakin' act together and start living up to their responsibilities to the citizens - to us - is one of our duties as citizens.
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