{"article":{"id":137116,"heading":"Potemkin Village Chief dines in luxury in New Orleans","author":"DLi","created":"2005-10-13 00:33:48","modified":"2005-10-13 00:33:48","last_modified":"Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:33:48","article":"

As more Iraqi civilians and American GIs die every day under the continuing Imperial Occupation of Iraq, Boy George does not seem to care or notice. His royal court of clueless jesters are busy trying to pre-empt the upcoming Category 10 storm of rising Public Indignation over his Rogue Regime's disastrous mismanagement of the 2 hurricanes that have crippled the already crumbling U.S. economic infrastructure. The latest economic firestorm came in the bankruptcy filing of major auto supplier Delphi. As Delphi goes, auto analysts are now even mentioning the possibility of auto giant GM to file for Chapter 11 itself in the next year.

But in the W's Bizzaro World of Fantasyland, all's well on the Western Front. Instead of forging real practical economic recovery programs(for example repealing the recession-causing income tax cut for the top 1% of rich corporate income earners), the White House is launching another glitzy PR campaign to promote the \"success stories\" of hurricane recovery instead. Putting up a Potemkin Village-like facade of 'feel good' images of Presidential appointments to the largely symbolic Commission for the Future of New Orleans is the NeoCon handlers' way of displaying style over essence.

But who is King George trying to fool here? Even the average Joe knows that the nation is broke from funding George's illegal Wars of Aggression overseas. So while Rome burns, Chief Chickenhawk dines out in fashionable French Quarter. If the poverty-stricken cajuns can't have enough bread, why not let them eat out at McDonald's? <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"While large portions of New Orleans remain unlivable, the clueless Coward from Crawford 'got a taste of one of New Orleans' finest restaurant last night in the French Quarter & stayed in the luxury hotel Windsor Court.' Marie Antoinette would have died in envy of such imperial decadence. ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/10\/137116.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}