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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:45 PM
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DeLay to evacuees: 'Is this kind of fun?'
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/DeLay_to_evacuees_Is_this_kind_of_f_0909.html

A report on the Houston Chronicle blog claims that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay asked Hurricane Katrina evacuees if their current situation was "kind of fun."

While on the tour with top administration officials from Washington, including U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao and U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, DeLay stopped to chat with three young boys resting on cots.

The congressman likened their stay to being at camp and asked, "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?"

They nodded yes, but looked perplexed.



:mad: :mad: :mad:
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:48 PM
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1. Wow
He and Barbara Bush must go in the same social circles - the haves and have mores.
He came from humble beginnings, didn't he? You'd think he'd know better.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:48 PM
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2. The Repugs are showing their true colors this week...
every time one of them opens his or her mouth.
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:48 PM
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3. What an idiot!
Send that clown to the same summer camp and make him stay there! And give him a wedgie.
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:49 PM
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4. There should be some sort of DU award for the most out-of-touch comment
of the day, month, year. This would definitely be a contender.
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:51 PM
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5. Go fuck yourself, Mr. DeLay. Go fuck yourself, you asshole.
nt.
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:51 PM
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6. Drop DeLay into NOLA
with a little fish-tank net. He can be picked up after he captures all of the alligators swimming around the city. :grr:
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Kber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:52 PM
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7. Delay is either
hopelessly out of touch with reality

or frighteningly mentally ill

if he thinks the past week and a half have been "fun" for anyone.

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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:52 PM
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8. I am getting sicker by the minute
This is surreal.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:53 PM
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9. "Boys?" Did he actually say that? Racist pig. n/t
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:01 PM
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10. Well, it's okay if they really WERE boys
But I kind of suspect he would have asked the same question of black adults.

:eyes:
rocknation
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:16 PM
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13. "stopped to chat with three young boys resting on cots."
uh, why is that racist?

Sure, if they were adults, but according to the story, they weren't.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:09 PM
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11. I think we have enough this week for a "Top 20 Conservative Idiots" --
maybe even "Top 25".
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kma3346 Donating Member (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:15 PM
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12. Good God!
What a clueless moron! I'm speechless!

:crazy:
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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:19 PM
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14. So, him sitting on a cot in jail will be kind of fun for him....
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:28 PM
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18. I'd enjoy it! eom
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:24 PM
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15. Now I've heard everything!
What an insensitive clod!

Oh...and stupid, too!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:25 PM
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16. Oh I am sure he will be topped
on the bright side they are exposing their true selves
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Demobrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:27 PM
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17. Somebody needs to drown him in a toilet.
And then ask him how much fun it is.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 09:09 PM
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19. We just need to stick DeLay and Limbaugh on Superdome cleanup duty.
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