This is a Huffington Post writer, Russell Shaw, after Katrina:

Would New Orleans and the nearby Gulf Coast be suffering so terribly today if President Carter beat back Reagan in 1980? . . . I am wondering if those voters in Louisiana and Mississippi who helped polluter-allied Reagan win in 1980 would have found themselves fated differently under a second Carter term.

This is Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee: “It’s time for the president to step up and put the needs of the American people ahead of profits for his pals in Big Oil.”

This is a briefly famous blogger named Joseph Cannon:

The National Guard was off in Iraq stealing oil — and everything else in that nation — all to benefit Halliburton and the oil companies. . . . A large part of me still believes that many of these W-worshipping numbskulls deserve to suffer and to die. They brought it on themselves. Let them look to Jayzuss [Jesus] for aid: It’s time they stopped leeching off the more productive blue staters.

This is Howell Raines, who edited the New York Times, the most important newspaper in the country, and arguably in the world: “The churchgoing cultural populism of George Bush has given the United States an administration that worries about the House of Saud and the welfare of oil companies while the poor drown in their attics and their sons and daughters die in foreign deserts.”

This is Randi Rhodes of Air America, talking about Bush: “I think somewhere deep down inside him he takes a lot of joy about losing people, if he thinks they vote Democrat or if he thinks they’re poor or if he thinks they’re in a blue state . . .”

Okay, I’ll stop now. But I could go on . . .