The Daily Kos reports that:
"President Bush broke his public silence on Saturday about the deadliest U.S. school shooting in six years, touting the government's response 'at this tragic time' after some American Indian leaders complained he paid little attention to the rampage.
Bush's delayed public reaction to the shooting stood in contrast to his swift and high-profile intervention this week to prolong the life of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman in Florida whose feeding tube was removed."
But Bush's lack of response to the shooting was clearly in keeping with his slow and stingy response after the Tsunami destroyed thousands of lives in South Asia. Clearly Karl Rove didn't think either the deaths of some Native Americans or the destruction of lives and land in South Asia would be of concern to their constituency. It seems that disasters and tragedies that happen largely to people of color are of much lower on this administration's list of priorities. With Bush and Rove it's always politics, not humanity
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