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As we go to press, hundreds of thousands (but maybe millions) of Americans in Oklahoma, northern Arkansas, and Kentucky have been without electricity since Tuesday.  We’ve talked to our own family, who live in the wealthy “Ozark Tiger” region in Arkansas’s far NW corner, and their power is still out.

Where’s FEMA?  If this were blacks in New Orleans, we’d never hear the fucking end of it.  The Anchoress nails it:

But still, why isn’t the president down there, hugging people? Why was he schmoozing congress with steak dinners* while people were suffering? Why is this going on for almost a week without the president going in there and fixing everything? It’s been way more than 100 hours! Where is Obama? Why does the government not show us what is really going on? Where are the pictures of stranded people? We want to see the pictures! People have died! Show us the bodies!

We all know the answers to these questions.