Compassion, Bay Buchanan Style

[filkertom]

Crooks and Liars has always got amazing and revealing bits, but this one, from Pat Buchanan's sister Bay, is beyond the beyonds:

I think Katrina has worn its welcome. I think the American people are tired of it.

Except, of course, for the American people still suffering from it, and for the American people who are paying for repairing the damage, and the American people who are wondering how we could fuckin' lose New Orleans, and....

So, what's your favorite example of "compassionate conservatism" this week?

Comments

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I expect the people in New Orleans felt Katrina had worn out what little welcome she might have had within... oh, say an hour or less. Not that that did any good....

Some folks are just stupid beyond comprehension. Some folks would be most useful as additional material for shoring up levys.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Love the icon!

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

Barbara Bush showed it only days after Katrina...

Basically, she said, about the poorer Katrina victims living in the Astreodome shelter, "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

...yeah, working well for them, I guess aside from LOSING WHAT LITTLE THEY OWNED IN THE FIRST PLACE.... -.-

[blackpaladin.livejournal.com]

President Bush is so worried about the U.S. Government getting bogged down in process and procedure that he has decided to circumvent the "checks and balances" system and simply sign into law a bill (specifically, a budget!!) that was not properly vetted by both the House and Senate.

The fact that Arianna Huffington and I are now in the same political camp continues to scare the bejeebus out of me...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation (and, frankly, it is to me), she was the one who moved our way. Funny how having your stomach kicked in by facts'll do that....

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the aftereffects of hurricaines last a _long_ time. Grand Cayman is still a shadow of its former self from a hurricaine 3? years ago, and I still see _many_ blue tarps on rooves in Orlando from 3 hurricaines 2 years ago, and _many_ here in Fort Lauderdale from Wilma last year (which is almost not talked about in the news, since it was after Katrina and Rita)

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

At first, I thought it was Mary Matalin. What is it with these Repug women, that they all look alike?

And shame on Paul Begala, for not immediately whirling and bitch-slapping her.

And in related news

[capplor.livejournal.com]

The stats just came out yesterday that show how currently the top 1% of the population has more money than the lower (I believe the number was) 60%. This isn't the makings of a revolution, yet, is it?

[the-dark-snack.livejournal.com]

What I hate is all of the focus on New Orleans when Mississippi was harder hit and is getting less support or publicity in it's ordeal. We actually have family there (my husband, beldar's son & ex-wife) and even thought they chose to return rather than relocate, the area is still basically a war zone. I wish people would take more notice of the entire area of devastation rather than the most glamorous part lost.

[nuveena.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's so easy to say that Katrina was God's Retribution on a City of Sin and Vice. It's harder to figure out exactly what Biloxi did to deserve this....

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought Mississippi was getting everything they asked for. Their Governor is, after all, a Republican, and therefore gets access to the trough.

Then again, since their Governor is a Republican, the official line is that they don't need any aid, having effectively planned for everything unlike the bad pathetic liberals of NO who were too stupid to get out of the way and now whine that the government owes them something.

Or was that last week, when we were still at war with Eastasia?

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

HOW many people are still missing--how many of them are children--and "the American people are tired of it?"

The part that upsets me most is the part where I think she has a point. I feel like the vast majority of Americans only care about a tragedy so long as it's on the front page of the paper.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Bay Buchanan, fucktard of the week. Pardon my not-worn-out-by-Katrina-its-my-hometown-they-drowned ass.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Damn straight! Time to put that embarassing mess behind us and get on with invading Iran and giving the rich another tax cut.

Remember, kids: if anyone asks who got hurt by Katrina, the correct answer is, "those poor Republicans, because of the bad PR".