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(Cross posted at Daily Kos)

Proceed with caution: emotional hotspots ahead...

Digby:

The Republicans are counting on the fifth anniversary to remind people of Bush's Bullhorn moment, which was sold as a moment of potent muscular leadership when in fact it was what he had been training for since his days on the sidelines at Andover prep ...

That brings us to the other big pageant this fall. A few days before 9/11 we are going to memorialize another day of national horror: the death of a huge swathe of an American city, while the president and John McCain shared a few laughs over birthday cake.

Besides, you have to be careful here because the dueling anniversaries will inflame that part of the Republican base that believes that the lives lost to a hurricane in New Orleans are, in fact, less than the lives lost to turban-wearing terrorists. After all, everyone knows that those people were too stupid to get out of the way, right? Serves 'em right. Every man for himself. If you rely on the government, you deserve what you get.

Oh and by the way: "macaca." Vote Republican.

No, the real lesson is that we're all residents of the state of Louisiana because when the next disaster hits, y'all be just as vulnerable to it as we were, even now, five years after 9/11.

So go ahead and bang the drum slowly, Republicans. Enjoy the dirge. As for the rest of us, it is time to rise up and throw the rascals out because if we don't, we're just sitting ducks, waiting for the next disaster.