“One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever”

[rodeodance]

Keep this in mind when you vote!---and pass it around to all.


http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/04/worst-abandonments/

“One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever”

The president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, Aaron Broussard, just issued an emotional appeal on NBC’s Meet the Press. By the end, he was completely broken down, sobbing uncontrollably:



RUSSERT: You just heard the director of homeland security’s explanation of what has happened this last week. What is your reaction?

BROUSSARD: We have been abandoned by our own country. Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst storms ever to hit an American coast. But the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history. … Whoever is at the top of this totem pole, that totem pole needs to be chainsawed off and we’ve got to start with some new leadership. It’s not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.


and:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/barbara2.asp

Working Very Well for Them

Claim: Former first lady Barbara Bush said that New Orleans refugees being housed in the Houston Astrodome were "underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

Status: True.

Origins: On 5 September 2005, Mrs. Bush and her husband, former president George Bush, toured the Astrodome complex in Houston that is being used as temporary lodging for thousands of displaced citizens from New Orleans and visited with evacuees being housed there. On this walk-thru of the make-shift quarters that amount to little more than a sea of cots in a wide open room, they were accompanied by former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The visit was intended as a bipartisan show of support for victims and a as forum for announcing the creation of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, a charitable endeavor aimed at facilitating short and long term relief efforts in the afflicted Gulf Coast states.

Later that day, Mrs. Bush was a guest on Marketplace, a show on public radio. During that interview she made these remarks about her interactions with the people quartered in the Astrodome:
Almost everyone I've talked to says, 'We're going to move to Houston.' What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them..................

[BOSSHOG]

1. Broussard was always good for a one liner

He said per communications we went from the Jetsons to the Flintstones in about three hours. And when asked to describe bush's first visit, broussard said it was like someone telling you they are sorry to hear your cat got run over. He got his butt kicked pretty good by his constituents for some of his decisions but he was literally up to his neck in flood water and stayed with his people.

[rodeodance]

2. he is my hero

[Jacobin]

5. I like Aaron

He's a politician, but he's got a heart and he's smart and speaks in a straightforward way.

"Like someone telling me they're sorry my cat got run over"

:rofl:

Perfect description of Bush* trying to pretend he's a human being.

[RethugAssKicker]

3. They are not considered Americans... that's why they were

abandoned !

[calimary]

4. Certainly not by "their imperial majesties," the bushes.

Vile people. Poor excuse for "people," actually.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=132

I never really liked barbara bush. Even back when she was the alleged "National Grandma." Sorry. Something just always bothered me about her. I've since discovered multiple reasons why. Which means one is accurate when one refers to bush as a "son of a bitch."