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There are horrible people who post on this forum. Awful, sinful, despicable people.

Could you name a few? I want to know who to avoid. Thanks.

Here is another snippet from The Corner. The Corner isn't happy. I am not happy. I almost posted this as an article, but it isn't really an article, and I don't know whether it is entirely true or not, so I didn't, but it was a close call. But I think Bush has wasted his trump card, probably permanently.

"THE COST OF CRONYISM [Rod Dreher] It would be very wrong, I believe, to let the ignominious Michael Brown be the scapegoat for FEMA's sins. Check out this front-pager from the WaPo. Turns out that a raft of FEMA's top leaders have little or no emergency management experience, but are instead politically well connected to the GOP and the White House. This is a scandal, a real scandal. How is it possible that four years after 9/11, the president treats a federal agency vital to homeland security as a patronage prize? The main reason I've been a Bush supporter all along is I trusted him (note past tense) on national security -- which, in the age of mass terrorism, means homeland security too. Call me naive, but it's a real blow to learn that political hacks have been running FEMA, of all agencies of the federal government! What if al-Qaeda had blown the New Orleans levees? How much worse would the crony-led FEMA's response have been? Would conservatives stand for any of this for one second if a Democrat were president? If this is what Republican government means, God help the poor GOP Congressmen up for re-election in 2006."

Figure it out yourself.