Pete, I know you can't read this - but this is beyond the pale - even for you.

Quite frankly I'm astounded that you can think that me and people on my side of the aisle are so callous as to assume that we just don't give a **** about people. Nothing can be further from the truth - and you know it.

While we have different opinions about how to deal with this catastrophe, I think one thing that everyone can agree on is that the people of the Gulf Coast have taken it on the chin for far too many consecutive years and that this is the quite possibly the worst ecological accident in history. There's no denying that people's lives are going to be ruined through no fault of their own and that is tragic and my hopes and prayers go out to them.