If Mr Bush enjoyed the public's support and sympathy, and I include the whole world here, after 911, while he stood on the pile of debris, an arm around a firefighter and defiant words to the evildoers, he has not managed the same second time around.

Bodies of the poor, floating down poisonous lakes of water which had been their lively neighbourhoods, are a fitting summary of all his policies.

The poor should pull themselves up by their boot straps, if they have any.
The Mississippi deserves to be an industrial sewer with no laws that would prevent poisons streaming out and creating a dead zone of ocean for poor fishermen to try and make a living on.
The hurricane came about because of global warming and Mr B has still got reservations about the accuracy of the experts' reports, even his own experts.
The people at the top cannot do their job of saving people because they do not know how to.
Help should be deprived in the area where it is needed, so that failure occurs on a massive scale and the local government is forced to pass the job on to BushCo's scroungers, cronies, cranks and mercenaries.
The leatherback turtles, already declining in number due to the use of longlines that entagle their fins, are now suffering a loss of environment on a massive scale.

Mrs Thatcher, another uncompassionate conservative, did much the same. She believed in withholding money from education, and when the inevitable failure happened, poor schools could be closed. Private education would come into its own to serve the rich, and money would be saved by the government for their other agendas. She said 'You don't make education better by throwing money at it.' Presumably, she thought that you could improve education by taking money away from it, just as Bush improved homeland security by reducing the size of FEMA.

But Mrs Thatcher did not deliberately fail and then come to the people again and again asking for more and more money to give to her cronies in contracts or jobs in high places that they were ill-prepared for. I am patriotic enough to think that the British People would not have allowed it then. Things have changed though with outsourcing to subcontractors who have zero consideration for the company employing them.

Mrs Thatcher did not dare interfere with the Health Service and the Social Welfare that was a safety net for the poorest of the poor. Unlike her, Bush has no intentions of helping the poorest of the poor but rather expects the charities to step in and cover for his negligence. His mantra is 'Let them eat cake' only he is not going to offer any.

Mrs Thatcher did not live in a time when homeland security was as needed as it is now in the USA and Britain. She did not really understand at the time, about global warming, because few people did. There was no such invention as 'international terrorism' to act as a legitimate bank that was a kind of new 'money-laundering in reverse' for the elite to dole money out to the least deserving and give them authority to reap mayhem on innocent countries, or to support the wealthy middle class purity programs and 'Silver Ring Things.'

She did not respond to the threat from the IRA, by dropping bombs on Portugal, or cooking up evidence against Scotland (even though they had all that oil off the North Sea.)

Well, in New Orleans the National Guard, and others, finally arrived from Iraq, or wherever they were waiting or on active service. They came in and were able to save a wimpering puppy. Well, again, like the helicopters that 'saved' the people from the rooftops, they did not exactly deliver the puppy into safe hands but they let someone else know it was there. Meanwhile the hapless puppy lapped up days old toxics in the water. Nobody had the wit to protect it from that.

I never thought I would be able to sit back and respect Mrs Thatcher. Eventually she was booted out by her own party and she got into her chauffeur-driven car in tears as she left the Prime Minister's residence on Downing Street. The whole country cheered. I cannot see Mr Bush crying as he is booted out of his job. He will ensure that the next president is favorable towards him, by hook or by crook, and he has already started it by getting the Clintons to help him in his countries hour of need. Bush Senior on Larry King Live said that it was his idea to pass the job on to the next person letting them know that he wouild not criticize them because the job was hard enough as it was. Is he preparing the way for a takeover by the democrats?