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September 06, 2005

How Many Ways Can You Say “Let Them Eat Cake”

According to Associated Press Writer Pam Easton: “Barbara Bush said the relocation to Houston is ‘working very well’ for some of the poor people forced out of New Orleans.

“’What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,’ she said during a radio interview with the American Public Media program ‘Marketplace.’ ‘And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.’”

Yep. My definition of “working very well” is losing my home – meager as it was – and my job – lousy as it was – and some of my friends and relatives and maybe my aged mother or a couple of my kids and living in a dangerous shithole for almost a week and then forced to travel a couple hundred miles so I can live in a baseball stadium for a couple months before I return to no home, no job, a smaller family and a smaller circle of friends.

I could be wrong, though. Perhaps these people are simply fucking assholes.

Posted by Mike Gold at September 6, 2005 12:42 PM

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Obviously none of the Bush clan should be allowed to speak without a prepared script, but let's not hang the son with the sins of the mother.

Posted by: Rick Oliver at September 6, 2005 01:07 PM

I'm not. There's more than enough to hang the Buck-Passer-In-Chief without including his mother's crude, imperious, obnoxious, heartless and astonishingly stupid remark. No where in my comment did I say "George Bush should be hung because he was raised by a crude, imperious, obnoxious, heartless and astonishingly stupid piece of shit who imparted both her political and obviously immoral values onto her idiot son." I never said that.

Posted by: Mike Gold at September 6, 2005 01:52 PM

"No where in my comment did I say 'George Bush should be hung because he was raised by a crude, imperious, obnoxious, heartless and astonishingly stupid piece of shit who imparted both her political and obviously immoral values onto her idiot son.' I never said that."

No, but it would have been hilarious if you had.

Posted by: Andy Holman at September 6, 2005 02:44 PM

Thank you. I'm sure some day I will!

Posted by: Mike Gold at September 6, 2005 02:47 PM

And I didn't say that you HAD said "'George Bush should be hung because he was raised by a crude, imperious, obnoxious, heartless and astonishingly stupid piece of shit who imparted both her political and obviously immoral values onto her idiot son." I just said that you SHOULDN'T say it. And I'm glad you didn't!

Posted by: Rick Oliver at September 6, 2005 05:31 PM

Further proof-- if any was needed-- how far the Fortunate Son, Mother, and Father are removed from reality. Let the old bitch and her useless spawn sit in the Gabriel Island morgue for a few days-- without food, water, or breathing masks-- while the bodies are autopsied. That'll larn'em.

Posted by: Timothy Truman at September 8, 2005 10:43 AM

What bodies? There are no bodies. FEMA is taking a page from the Pentagon playbook. No pictures of the dead Americans. We don't need the liberal media needlessing upsetting folks. Or, in the words of Officer Barbrady: "Move along. Nothing to see here."

And out of the ruins of New Orleans will arise a great and glorious New New Orleans, with levees that will withstand nuclear warheads, designed to last a thousand years, and gleaming high-rise condos, reaching to the clouds and stretching to the horizon, all subsidized with our tax dollars, funnelled into the pockets of BushCo cronies, who will reap staggering profits.

And of course, the poor, former residents of the old New Orleans will be welcomed with open arms...as tourists just passing through, since they won't be able to afford to live there.

Posted by: Rick Oliver at September 8, 2005 01:56 PM

And I quote Terry the cryoteck from the 1st ep of Futurama when I say:

"Welcome to the worrrlld of tomorrow!!!!!"

JAC

Posted by: Jeff Coney (www.hedgehoggames.com)) [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 9, 2005 08:09 AM

Furtermore the continued relocation of shit from my colon to my rectum on its way to the toliet bowl (sponsored by chick-fil-a)has, I think, been quite good for it.

Posted by: Jeff Coney (www.hedgehoggames.com)) [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 9, 2005 08:12 AM

Slightly OT:
Here's an entry from DailyKos.com that might sound an alarm bell there in Connecticut.
The GOPs are going to treat Lieberman like Osama Bin Laden's best buddy during the next campaign anyway -- why is he sucking up to them so disgustingly?

(text follows)
my call to Joe's Wash DC office

called the number for his DC office from the website (202-224-4041 Voice), and was invited to hit 1 to leave a comment or 2 to talk to a staffer.

Hit 2 and got an even-keeled staffer who admitted that Lieberman was on that committee; I expressed my displeasure with the FEMA/Brown situation and my disappointment at finding the Senator's fingerprints on the appointment. Told him I expected some kind of explanation and that I thought it really didn't sit well that he and Collins were going to be leading an investigation, given his role. Staffer asked whether I wanted a personal response; I said no, not looking to take up Senator's time, just want him to stop dancing so close to the President. He assured me investigation would be "partisan", though I'm sure from context he meant bipartisan. I said the last thing I want to do is be targeting Democrats when the Repubs are so horrible, but primaries are rolling around and if I don't see some better performance going to have to look at Blumenthal. Staffer was kind of monotone, like this was not his first call of the day (!) but he was polite and I think he got the point.

If I had to do over again, one point I would hammer is that I'm not looking for a "bipartisan" investigation, I'm looking for an investigation that will get to the truth and hold the appropriate parties accountable.

SO, about another 5,000 calls today ought to do it...

Posted by: Michael Evans at September 9, 2005 11:50 AM

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