Tonight (my time), I had planned to elaborate on a theme I have introduced in the past few days, that of who is responsible for setting priorities of our government, and who can make changes.

If you haven’t been reading, the answer to the question, “Who?” is simple yet unrecognized: We, the people.

This evening, after reading the bile, losing my footing from all the shifting of responsibility, and getting dizzy with all the spin in the wake of the catastrophe in New Orleans and the devastation of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama (not to minimize the other regions, such as parts of western Florida, that were also affected), I cannot write with coherence or detail because I am so disgusted with the partisans on both left and right.

The chanting from the left of “Blame Bush!” is matched in vileness only by the cheerleading from the right of “Blame everyone BUT Bush!”

In the end, both sides are unworthy of even attention, much less anything more serious.

The control required in fighting my urge to lash out in a pointless and possibly destructive rage fueled by both the frustration I felt in the past week at my inability to really help those I see in desperate, dire need along with the loathing I have for the feeble-minded, narrow outlooks of the partisans, politicians, and operatives on both sides has sapped so much of my energy I cannot write what I had intended in the way it deserves to be written: with consideration, with intellectual rigor, and well.

In the interim, I will recommend two posts:

“What little I have to say about Katrina” by Chris Lawrence at

Signifying Nothing“On Criticizing the Response to Katrina” by Dr. Stephen Taylor at PoliBlog

Both state quite well many of my thoughts both in the past week and tonight; at least the non-apocalyptic thoughts, anyway.

Please read them both in full, and indulge me in my mental exhaustion. I want the post delayed to fully explain, in detail, with due consideration and intellectual rigor, exactly what I believe needs to be said.

Technorati Tags: left wing, left wing politics, left wing weblogs, left-wing, left-wing politics, left-wing weblogs, politics, recommended reading, right wing, right wing weblogs, right-wing, right-wing politics, right-wing weblogs, weblogs