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Ok, I thought my anger had temporarily run its course, but the sheer disregard that this president shows for the hundreds of thousands of people currently in harm’s way is truly disgusting.

Check what the White House seems to find important today.

The RNC, not to be upstaged in callousness by the White House, sent out an email today encouraging its constituents to fight against the “death” tax. Because right now, we should definitely be concerned about the estate tax and how it hurts multi-multi-millionaires.

Atrios is doing a great job covering Katrina. Some of the more upsetting statements he’s heard on CNN today:

More from convention center from CNN. Woman with baby:

We gotta get some help. We really need some help. WE got babies – I got three kids. They need water, milk, bottles. They don’t have nothing. Newborn babies. Premature babies. Everything.

That official told me they were able to take a couple of people out. One woman so desperate that she actually handed up her 2 month old baby and said take my child. I can’t get on this bus, but you’ve got to try to save this child. She didn’t even know the woman’s name.

Chris Lawrence: They say that there have been National Guard units that have come by. Tossed some MREs out. Very little. Here and there. People have been eating potato chips that they can scrounge up, looting some of the stores that are nearby for food and water, for juice, for drinks. Not the kind of food that you need to feed these thousands of people. What these people are saying basically is give us some water, give us some food, don’t leave us here to die or get us out of here. They’re saying we’re stuck here. We cant leave. They don’t send the buses. They won’t take us out of here and yet they won’t come in with truckloads of water and food to feed us. You’ve got sick people there, sick You’ve got old people there, these young babies there. What are they going to do? Are they going to leave us here to die?

At least Scott McClelland seems to understand the situation, saying about the looters:

There are ways for them to get that help. Looting is not the way for them to do it.

Jack Cafferty, on CNN’s Situation Room this afternoon:

I’m 62. I remember the riots in Watts, I remember the earthquake in San Francisco, I remember a lot of things. I have never, ever, seen anything as bungled and as poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans. Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can’t sandwiches be dropped to those people in the Superdome. What is going on? This is Thursday! This storm happened 5 days ago. This is a disgrace. And don’t think the world isn’t watching. This is the government that the taxpayers are paying for, and it’s fallen right flat on its face as far as I can see, in the way it’s handled this thing.

The mayor of New Orleans has issued a “desparate SOS:”

Fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers were shot at as flooded-out New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday. “This is a desperate SOS,” the mayor said.

Anger mounted across the ruined city, with thousands of storm victims increasingly hungry, desperate and tired of waiting for buses to take them out.

“We are out here like pure animals. We don’t have help,” the Rev. Issac Clark, 68, said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where corpses lay in the open and he and other evacuees complained that they were dropped off and given nothing _ no food, no water, no medicine.

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