Let Them Eat Cake

Dear Editor:

While the French people were starving and had no bread, Marie Antionette showed her disdain by uttering those famous words, “Let them eat cake.” While Rome burned, Nero showed his uncaring attitude by playing his fiddle. And while over 60% of America has lost faith with his administration, George W. Bush, at a Rose Garden press conference, showed his complete disregard for what is going on around him by stating, "There's some background noise here, a lot of chatter, a lot of speculation and opining,"

“Background noise?” “Chatter?” Is this truly what Bush thinks? Is he so removed from the electorate and reality that he is completely isolated from what is swirling around him and his administration? Does he really have the gall to stand and say to America that he doesn’t care that almost 2,000 Americans are dead in Iraq, that the Republican leaders of the House and Senate are suspected of financial finagling, that high level people in the White House probably leaked information about an undercover member of the CIA, that FEMA was a bigger disaster than Hurricane Katrina, that his cronyism with political appointments has hit a terrible snag with Harriet Miers, that the country’s debt is reaching the point of no return thanks to his spending policies, and that his catering to the rich lobbyists, corporations and wealthy in this country has turned off the average American? Is this all just “background noise” and “chatter” to him?