Before we visit Freeperville, here are excerpts of an exchange between Joe Scarborough and Brian Willimas of MSNBC.
Scarborough, "Is the American Public ready to pay the bill?"
Brian Williams, "To be in a spot in America, where people died for lack of food and water, is a strange feeling."
Scarborough, "Where young people died on sidewalks from dehydration."
Williams, "Not that you want total devastation as a back-drop....(but) They chose a beauty-drop!?"
Bonus from Tucker Carlson, "It wasn't a conservative speech at all... the question is whether it's going to alienate his base, the Conservatives.... Frankly, I don't think $200 Billion is where it's going to end."
On to the fun:
"DID YOU FEEL THAT? It was the size of the Federal Government growing again. It moved the Earth.... :-) Good speech though."
"This is a different kind of set up than I thought it would be...casually dressed?"
"cruel and wasteful storm? Who wrote this speech? I predict a dud..."
"Man, I feel sorry for Bush so much crap has happened on his watch."
"Bush is not ideal, but.... putting a knife in his back is not my idea of being a good Republican or a good conservative."
"He needs to wear a button-downed collar..."
"He is blending in with the background too well... His head sticks out like a sore thumb! He should have worn a different colored shirt."
"Just playing the Jesse card. Racial discrimination causing poverty. W drank the kool-ade"
"I do feel that he has been off with regard to Katrina - In that he is making the Federal Gov't our "daddy" and that when natural events take place and things go wrong.....we are now supposed to feel like we can cry to daddy (Federal Gov't) and all should and will be taken care of.."
"We should not be giving billions of taxpayer money to Africans nor billions to rebuild a city that will flood again because it is in an incredibly retarded spot."
"Stupid comment: "Let us rise above the level of inequality". What the hell does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. Give my money to everybody else."
"CBS just ran a death toll like it was election results--shameless."
"Stupid comment: "Let us rise above the level of inequality". What the hell does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. Give my money to everybody else. I hate theis speech. Give, Give, Give."
"I'm so SICK of "discrimination" being blamed for the blacks not pulling themselves out of poverty"
"He's coopting the Dems' great entitlement ponzi scheme. Every poor family that goes from the projects to a house they OWN, they are on the way to becoming independent. At least I hope so..."
"More like STEAL my money, my children's money and my grandchildren's money. Bush is treating this like reparations without the nationwide impact. He's swallowed whole the idea "racism" is why the people in New Orleans have so many impoverished persons. This speech is a mess and it won't do ONE GOOD THING to improve 'race relations'. He's pandering. Pandering!!"
"Buddy, I shoot from the hip. I have family still w/o power /phone..."
I have heard a lot of people on the radio really mad that Bush wants the evacuees to live in mobile homes...
"LOL---glad that he fooled them again....the mobile homes are for the workers, so they won't have to commute for hours to get to the work sites..."
"Did you know that Congress yesterday gave FEMA a blank check from the US Treasury to pay the billions of dollars in flood insurance claims that will be paid? To rebuild in a place that will flood again? I bet you didn't."
Editor's Note: God, I love this. Bush spends, spends, spends to try to save his ass. And splinters his base in the process.
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