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<p>The disastrous federal response to Katrina exposes a record of incompetence, misjudgment and ideological blinders that should lead to serious doubts that the Bush administration should be allowed to continue in office.</p> <p>When taxpayers have raised, borrowed and spent $40 billion to $50 billion a year for the past four years for homeland security but the officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot find their own hands in broad daylight for four days while New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast swelter, drown and die, it is time for them to go.</p>

Tolerance is an important issue, one that liberals spend hours discussing. However, the lack of tolerance that I see lies not on the conservative side, but within the liberal camp. Although a simple examination of the labels would cause one to think that conservatives are resistant to change and thus display an intolerant attitude, a closer examination of the ebb and flow of modern political debate reveals a much different picture. It is in fact liberals today who attempt to suppress and demean any viewpoint that is different from their own. Case point: George W. Bush - obviously liberals have...