This is what a Republican America looks like...

Link via Norbiz, "Reporters' Log: Katrina's aftermath" from the BBC.

A few moments ago a man came up to me and asked if I was a journalist. He said: "Can you help me? I need to save the lives of 60 women."

Twelve blocks away there are 60 people in an old people's home and 30 staff who have been looking after them since the hurricane struck. He said they had enough water to last 12 hours, two of the women had died already and three more will probably die today.

"Who can I ask?" he said. I said I didn't know and he wandered off. The policemen wouldn't talk to him so he's gone off to try to find someone who might help.

That's just one isolated case and there are many more like that across this city. It is a desperate situation. There is a real feeling here that not enough is being done and certainly not fast enough.

And...

On the approaches to New Orleans a trail of people - those who've decided to walk out of the city - line the highways.

In the centre of the city thousands have gathered outside the stadium waiting for a seat in the long convoy of buses and evacuation. Most waited without any food or water.

A group of elderly residents of a care home in wheelchairs sat bewildered in the ninety degree heat and rain. The evacuation appears agonisingly slow and it's unclear why, after three days, so many people seem to be without relief supplies.

One man, fury and exhaustion etched on his face, shouted at me: "This is America, why are we in this situation?"

Could it be because our Commander in Chief was doing his Nero bit, instead of his JOB? Picture taken on Tuesday, and if Bush had been at work, doing his job, (you know) leading America during (in his own words), the worst natural disaster to strike this country, who knows how many lives could have been saved.