and katrina happened under a republican president. it must mean that god hates republicans!

If there's a real connection, Im happy for people to tout it, in fact, they should, to explain why their person or idea is better than another. But to suggest that this outbreak of swine flu could have been stopped if John McCaine was in office for the last 100 days is not just absurd, but, as you point out, shows a greed for ignorance of science.