Is it possible that those dead people are still sitting at the convention center in New Orleans?  Can I believe what I’m seeing on the TV?  That woman in the wheelchair, covered with the plaid blanket is still there?  The person beside her, in the white sheet, is still there?  They’re still there, decomposing in the heat? 

That’s somebody’s mother or grandmother, somebody’s son or daughter. How is it possible that this is happening?  This has passed from being a tragedy to a shame to an outright crime.