Barbara Bush steps in it

[link|http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/09/05/barbara/index.html |Salon] Proving once again, there is continuity in Dynasty:

Barbara Bush on those lucky refugees

Somebody asked George H.W. Bush Monday about the criticism of his son's handling of Hurricane Katrina, and the former president said that the critics ought to tell it to his wife -- and that they ought to don a flak jacket before trying. But this morning, it's Barbara Bush herself who might want to think about some protective clothing, at least metaphorically speaking.

The former first lady toured the Astrodome Monday, and along the way she opined that many of the refugees from New Orleans were so poor to begin with that they ought to be pretty happy with their temporary digs in Houston. "What I\ufffdm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in comments first aired on the public radio program "Marketplace" and reprinted by [link|http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054719| Editor & Publisher]. "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

In the midst of that last line, you can hear the former first lady chuckling.

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The Roots of Bush's 'Compassion'

(The Nation) This column was written by John Nichols.

Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism."

On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother's Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston.

Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees -- cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases -- former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.

"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," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.

On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake.

At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.

On Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis, President Bush heaped praise on embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need."

Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Like mother, like son.

Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

By John Nichols
Reprinted with permission from The Nation.

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Post #223,061 by Ashton 9/6/05 5:28:46 AM Reply	Barbara Bush steps in it [link\|http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/09/05/barbara/index.html \|Salon] Proving once again, there is continuity in Dynasty: Barbara Bush on those lucky refugees Somebody asked George H.W. Bush Monday about the criticism of his son's handling of Hurricane Katrina, and the former president said that the critics ought to tell it to his wife -- and that they ought to don a flak jacket before trying. But this morning, it's Barbara Bush herself who might want to think about some protective clothing, at least metaphorically speaking. The former first lady toured the Astrodome Monday, and along the way she opined that many of the refugees from New Orleans were so poor to begin with that they ought to be pretty happy with their temporary digs in Houston. "What I\ufffdm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in comments first aired on the public radio program "Marketplace" and reprinted by [link\|http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054719\| Editor & Publisher]. "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." In the midst of that last line, you can hear the former first lady chuckling.
Post #223,078 by bionerd 9/6/05 9:27:53 AM Reply	In the eyes of the Bush clan God blessed Texas with his own hands. Those, lucky, lucky poor folk. Praise Jesus for the hurricane that provided these folks the opportunity to experience some down-home Texas hospitality! It's a dream come true! And now they all want to stay in Texas? Lord have mercy. I can see Barbara, the great humanitarian, now: "Here's your bottled water and new shoes. (Dont let the door hit you on the way out.) Y'all come back now, ya hear?!"
Post #223,104 by jb4 9/6/05 11:32:55 AM Reply	It'd serve Tejas right for them to stay. perhaps, they'd all settle in Trent Lott's district.... jb4 shrub●bish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #223,106 by SpiceWare 9/6/05 11:49:16 AM Reply	serve Tejas right? it sure seems to me that the one thing that has shined through in this catastrophe was the response from Texas. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #223,107 by boxley 9/6/05 12:14:39 PM Reply	no question there and with the culinary infusion these folks bring texmex poboys will brighten up the local menus. thanx, bill "the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #223,115 by SpiceWare 9/6/05 12:28:47 PM Reply	Cajun/Creole cooking is real popular in Houston A lot of people from Louisianna have ended up here due to the job opportunities. A [link\|http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/dining/Rest_Search.mpl?submit1=&submit2=2&view=results&search_name=&cuisine=Cajun%2FCreole®ion=&meal=&cost=&x=15&y=9\|number] of excellent cajun/creole restaurants can be found. Don't know about the rest of the state, though I don't recall there being many when I in Corpus Christi. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #223,137 by jb4 9/6/05 1:56:39 PM Reply	Fair enough. I retract my original statement Now, having eaten a proper portion of crow, how shall I express my disdain for a sentiment that is so classically Tejano without using an overly broad brush that unfairly tars the non-Tejano segment of the Texas populace? jb4 shrub●bish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #223,138 by SpiceWare 9/6/05 2:00:32 PM Reply	easy direct your distain to the bitch that deserves it. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #223,140 by jb4 9/6/05 2:03:15 PM Reply	OK. Barbara, you ignorant slut! That better? jb4 shrub●bish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #223,386 by SpiceWare 9/7/05 10:07:02 AM Reply	Yep :-) Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #226,398 by lincoln 9/25/05 6:31:00 PM Reply	Isn't Trent Lott from Mississippi? Perhaps you meant Tom DeLay's district? lincoln "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #223,109 by tuberculosis 9/6/05 12:17:49 PM 8/21/07 6:30:10 AM Reply	Oh look how much the hurricane helped the little people! Living in a big fucking stadium is so much nicer than those dreary little shacks they call home. Why maybe we should build them some nice camps right next to the cotton fields and pass out bread and water twice a day. They'll really appreciate that. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:30:10 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #223,337 by Ashton 9/7/05 2:51:07 AM Reply	Pop like his 'little brown people', too.
Post #223,434 by mmoffitt 9/7/05 12:43:06 PM Reply	John Nichols of The Nation says it well. The Roots of Bush's 'Compassion' (The Nation) This column was written by John Nichols. Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism." On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother's Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston. Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees -- cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases -- former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out. "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," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home. On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake. At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities. On Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis, President Bush heaped praise on embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need." Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Like mother, like son. Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree. By John Nichols Reprinted with permission from The Nation. [link\|http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/06/opinion/main821528.shtml\|http://www.cbsnews.c.../main821528.shtml] bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #223,522 by Ashton 9/7/05 6:31:42 PM Reply	Out of the mouths of Babes and Babushkas ... pabulum.
Post #224,007 by SpiceWare 9/9/05 7:13:04 PM Reply	DeLay joins her [link\|http://blogs.chron.com/domeblog/archives/2005/09/delay_to_evacue.html\|DeLay to evacuees: 'Is this kind of fun?'] 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. sure DeLay, what do you think? It's very fun when compared with wading through raw sewage. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #224,013 by tuberculosis 9/9/05 8:21:04 PM 8/21/07 12:45:10 PM Reply	I'll bet he knows the name of the hurrican - unlike Laura B [link\|http://movies.crooksandliars.com/What-is-The-Name-of-That-Hurricane.mov\|http://movies.crooks...hat-Hurricane.mov] (Quicktime) Corrina you say? Karrina? Whatever. Sure must be hard to hear inside that bubble. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:45:10 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #224,031 by Ashton 9/9/05 9:36:10 PM Reply	"The Prince and the Pauper" redux Read that as a tad. Mark Twain - what more need be said? Imagine a swap of say, a dozen of the Prescott Bushie-babies dynasty -- all suddenly in dire straits (a concept, about which they've never even desired to read). I'd pay Big for a fly-space on That wall. Hubris + Dumbth.. lovely.
Post #224,114 by jake123 9/10/05 12:24:39 PM Reply	Well, why should she waste her beautiful mind on all that pain and bodies and death and such? --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

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