Northeast Tragedy - New Political Low

My heart - and my prayers - goes out to the people in the Northeast affected by the storm that hit the east coast a couple days ago.

It's a tragedy that's just unfolding and by the looks of it will go on for weeks if not months. Projections I've seen on power outages are going to continue until well into next week. People are without lights, heat, food and gasoline. The few people I know personally  in that area that I've been able to reach by phone are getting anxious. 

4,000,000 homes and businesses are still in the dark and the death toll is now near 100.

Help is on the way and we owe gratitude to every one of those first responders but...

I'm ashamed to hear that politics has been inserted into the tragedy

Here are my 3 main "Shame on you's" so far

#1 President Obama

President Obama's close personal confidant - former White House staffer - current Mayor of Chicago - Rahm Emanuel - famously said during the fiscal crisis "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before"  and once again we see that philosophy in play

Why did the President take up valuable resources to go do a Press opportunity with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie  The obvious answer was he values the public relations value of having himself on center stage with a popular governor - More - than he cares about the number of first responders that had to be diverted to Presidential guard duty

It's a crisis - the President took advantage - that's what he's done for 4 years

Shame on you Mr President

#2 Mayor Bloomberg

What the heck is he thinking diverting huge generators for the public relations value of the New York Marathon? I'm in favor of emaciated athletes running for hours through the streets of the Big Apple as much as the next guy - but I'd rather see 400 homes with 400 families have heat in their homes and I'd rather see the athletes stay out of the congested airports and roads

Shame on you Mr Mayor

#3 The not so magnificent 7 -  Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting, Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams and  Matt Lauer

Enabled by what increasingly looks like the office Obama campaign channel - NBC - these numbskulls are having what they want us to believe is a charity event for the victims

News flash gang of 7 - it would be best if the people in crisis were out of crisis before you did a last minute campaign event. Once again you see the lack of compassion. This event will take up LOTS of resources that hurting Americans could use - security - power - manpower in general

Shame on the bunch of you

Tuesday is coming

Update - within hours of posting this the Mayor had an Epiphany