For too many years now, I’ve heard a lot of false and lofty rhetoric spoken in so-called “townhall meetings” where only a select Republican crowd was allowed inside. I could see these speeches on cable news, but I knew that I could never take part in them.

For too many years now, I have felt that I have been left behind. I understand that millions upon millions of Americans feel the same way that I feel.

For too many years now, we’ve been told that 9/11 united us in a common purpose and made us a better nation in the face of such tragedy. Far too many times, we’ve been told that the government of Iraq possessed WMD and was linked to the 9/11 hijackers. Too many times, we’ve heard that this link was our reason for making pre-emptive war upon Iraq, and now that the government has long been deposed and the “mission accomplished”, we remain in a swirling quagmire.

For too many years, we’ve been told that with the new office of Homeland Security (with FEMA buried inside the office) we’d be well-prepared for a national emergency.

New Orleans has been practically wiped off the face of America, and it almost seems that in certain men’s hearts, it was a righteous thing. In certain men’s minds it was meant to be nature’s last word, making New Orleans only a memory. In the President’s agenda, when he knew a Category 5 storm was heading straight toward a city with known flooding issues, it was apparently a siuation not worth abandoning his 5-week-long vacation - at least not until he knew for sure the city had been decimated. After the flood, the President boldly told the lie that no one could have foreseen this flooding tragedy.

The American people are not only shocked by the government’s slowness to action, they are disgusted.

In the past two days, ten people, who are not political by any stretch of the imagination, have sent me this e-mail - Vacation is Over… an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush. It’s cris-crossing Americans’ e-mail path like wildfire.

For those Americans who are political animals and who have paid close attention to the dismal hyperbolic misleadings and the divisive rhetoric of the Bush administration, we see that the ineffective reaction, after Katrina, from government has killed off a lot of previous blind support and benefit of the doubt from many Americans.

Steve Gilliard says it in a very strong and clear way. There is no possibility of a mixed message in his words.

You say this isn’t about politics? Fu*k you, this IS politics, real time, real life politics, where the insanity of all your ideas are exposed to the world for the fraud that they are. Tax cuts kill. Ask the relatives of the dead of the Gulf Coast.

He’s angry with all those political creatures on the Right who have pumped this president up larger than life. He’s angry with them for dividing Americans from one another, whether or not it was their intention.

I can’t blame him.

This administration doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the poor in this country. A close look at every one of their policies will prove it. A close look at Grover Norquist and Karl Rove will prove it.

“Let’s drown government in the bathtub” says Grover Norquist. It seems that nature helped Grover Norquist and his radical Republicans drown much more than government this past week. It literally drowned real Americans as a result of Norquist’s brand of government inaction. America’s confidence in their government has also been drowned.

For too many years, the Bush administration has been diverting our taxes to a place where the profit is higher for wealthy friends and political contributors. They’ve made blood and gunpowder stew out of Iraq while Nature has made a human gumbo out of New Orleans with no possible appropriate response here at home because of reduced availability of manpower.

It’s unfortunate that it would take the poorest people among us having to suffer and die for the mainstream media’s cameras to wake America up to the sickening fact that the public has been duped for too many years now.