ABC News: Showing La. Bush voters now crying about lack of funding...

[kerry-is-my-prez]

for Hurricane Katrina. NOW that they've gotten the shaft - they see the light.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Well, they're really screwed now.

Landrieu has to pull it out of her rear end on her own because she could have harnessed the internet to help her cause, but she decided to go it alone.

[Vadem]

23. Reminder: Landrieu will be on Washington Journal tomorrow, ...

a.m, on C-Span (7-10 am). We all need to call in and ask her why she has voted only 20% with the Dems and 80% with George Bush! A Democrat???? I don't think so! It is time for a real Democrat to run for that Senate seat! OK Louisianians, time to get busy! I, along with thousands of other Americans, will support you!

[StClone]

2. Sad. You tell. You warn them. You give an informed opinion

And looky what the man you warned about has done for them. Sadder still is he was blind to terrorism 9/11 and is blind to the blunder he's making in Iraq now and he's not done yet.

[xultar]

3. Awwww FUCK'EM too bad the Dems must suffer with the asshats.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

4. Sorry....I'm Heartless & Cold I Guess...

I have little sympathy for ANYONE who voted for this administration, and now has complaints. ESPECIALLY if they voted for it both in '00 AND '04. I do, however, feel mighty sad for anybody who recognized King george for being the LOSER that he is, and yet are now getting shafted anyways.

Throw your support behind an evil facist, and you deserve what you get. Then you can go cry all you want, and watch as your tears are ignored by the man you so felt was worthy of your vote.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. No sympathy from me.

I think alot of people vote for Bush because they think it's just other people who are going to get screwed, then they feel really shocked when it happens to them. Many people support Bush out of mean spiritedness; because they want to see the gays and the abortionists and the libruls and the "welfare cheats" and the non-Christians get put in their place. They just don't like it when they find themselves thrown in with the same rabble. Most of these people wouldn't be crying at all about somebody else getting the exact same shaft.

I know that many people on this board find these sentiment extremely objectionable, but I just can't find any sympathy in my heart for people who are experiencing the consequences of their own choices and their own mean spiritedness.

[raccoon]

17. They asked for it, they got it. And it wasn't Toyota. nt

[Blue_Roses]

6. got a link?

nt

[pretzel4gore]

7. the good news is

most americans either outright support bush, or remain complacent about what's going on. even moreso, the american people as a whole seem to subsidise the pigmedia, despite its relentless lying to them, not even one mediawhore has been tarred/feathered! therefore, since bush is truly going to wreck the USA, the hurting of it means the pain will be felt by vast numbers of busheviks! hip hip HOORAY! Go Bozobush GO!
i admit it's a shabby substitute for hope, but at least the bushdupes do suffer for their folly, no matter what..."nothing fails like success when working for the devil!"

[PBass]

9. I'm sure the Right Wingers will refuse federal assistance, on principal.

After all, they are against "handouts" from the federal government. I bet Right Wingers who live on the Gulf will insist on pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps.

I feel sorry for everybody else down there...

[hatrack]

21. Yes, I'm sure homeowners among them don't use mortgage interest deductions

That's government telling you what to do, like buy houses, doncha know?

[pacalo]

8. Those New Orleanians who were affected by Katrina were Democrats.

That, combined with the fact that LA has a Democratic governor & a Democratic senator against whom this administration campaigned very hard leading up to her last re-election, is the main reason New Orleans wasn't treated as hospitably as the boy king's brother's state was. And this administration is going to make sure New Orleans suffers by dragging its feet so that the displaced New Orleanians -- whose vote the boy king didn't get -- will be kept scattered across the U.S. IMHO.

[tanyev]

10. The most interesting one was the doctor, a Republican

who is still living in a trailer (and not happy about it). He said something like he has always been for smaller government but he sees now that some problems are just so big that people need federal assistance. Very painful way to learn that lesson.

[Darkhawk32]

11. That lesson learned will be forgotten with another tax cut. n/t

[gratuitous]

12. Yeah, I saw Dr. Doofus, too

He had to spout two or three sentences of Grover Norquist pablum before he could finally clear his voice enough to acknowledge that, yes, in some circumstances -- and he's in one now -- there just isn't any substitute for the collective power of the people wielded by the federal government.

I didn't detect any real change of heart on the doctor's part, but maybe a couple more months living in a crappy little single-wide will drive the point home for him.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. As soon as he's out of that trailer....

BOOM! "I'm (again) in favor of cutting welfare."

[merbex]

15. Within a New York minute would be my guess

Someone should follow him like a documentary camera crew - check up on him every couple weeks

[NYC Liberal]

16. I was just gonna say....

These people totally oppose something, until they need it. And then once they benefit from it, they want nobody else to have it.

Similar to abortion, in fact.

[calimary]

24. Yes, and similar to all those diseases for which stem cell research

might have made a big difference in terms of relief, or maybe even a cure.

They're dead set against it until the issue hits close to home. Only then do they see the light.

It's sad. I want to feel sorry for all the hurricane victims. But it's hard to work up any sympathy for people who willingly voted for bush - especially in 2004 - only to come whining and whimpering now. WE TRIED TO WARN THEM!!! WE TRIED TO WAKE THEM UP!!! They wouldn't hear of it. I hate to see anybody in misery. But when the problem is self-inflicted...

[Vinca]

28. Every time I come upon your posts I gasp when I see that photo

of Babs. It's like "Night of the Living Dead.":rofl:

[Mad_Dem_X]

31. Describes conservatives to a T

They oppose it, until it affects them and theirs.

[Tesha]

14. And he'll "unlearn" it next time the money's not going to him. (NT)

[tanyev]

18. Aha! I found the doctor's exact quote.

I looked all over ABC news and never found a transcript, but I got my Media Research Center Cyberalert today. They're so offended by the story they gave a complete blow-by-blow.

Osunsami: "The reality is that a third of New Orleans is still without power. In Mississippi, 51 hotels and resorts, the lifeblood of the tourism industry there, will never be rebuilt. In Louisiana, the repairs on the levees may not be completed until after this year's hurricane season begins. Here's what many residents wanted to hear: A greater share of the tax revenue generated from oil and gas drilled off Louisiana's shore, even more money for stronger levees, and a rebuilding plan that would cover each and every affected homeowner. William Farrell is a doctor who voted for the President and is now living in a trailer."

Dr. William Farrell, New Orleans resident: "This is a situation that requires big government help. And as much as I philosophically don't espouse that approach, when you're in it and you live it, you see there's really no other way."

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060202.asp#1
(Warning: Wingnuttery out the Wazoo)

[Benfea]

30. What an idiot

Why couldn't he figure that out before he killed all those people by voting Republican? It's not like he can claim to be too stupid to figure it out like some jobless punk in a trailer park with no high school diploma.

[Jacobin]

19. For those ignorant of the facts

Orleans parish Was BLUE in 00 and 04 by a wide margin!!

please stop bashing my poor, flooded, screwed up state.

[hatrack]

20. I don't think anyone's doing that here, Jacobin

They're bashing the hypocritical Bush-ass-kissing sacks of leaf litter who squeal about "welfare queens" and "socialized medicine" and "big government" until they stand in dire need of welfare, medicine and government in the wake of a cataclysmic natural disaster.

But such items are to be provided with public funding only for them, of course.

[Senator Obama]

22. Nobody's bashing NOLA....

WE recognize that its blue even though Sister Mary, your state senator let us down on the Alito filibuster. I have to wonder if she didn't feel the heat from the reduced democratic support brought about by the dislocation of so many Dems that was caused by Katrina.

Peace..

Obama

[Laelth]

32. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Here's to NO Parish, true and blue. :toast:

-Laelth

[sandnsea]

26. That isn't the point

I don't understand why people take it that way. If you don't tell your friends and family that this is exactly what taxes and government is for, NOW, then when will they ever have an opportunity to understand. The ones like that doctor in the above post, that's who people are talking about. You need the rest of the country to "imagine" what it feels like to be in your shoes and help. Well the poor need that doctor to do that too and understand that capitalist economies with $5.00 an hour workers are ALWAYS going to create masses of poor that are going to need some kind of help.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Sorry, having been down to the Gulf Coast

to volunteer at a relief center, I can't get all partisan about this.

Nobody, Republican or not, deserves to suffer as the people down there have been suffering.

Maybe their sufferings will wake them up, but that's not the point. Their homes are gone, their jobs are gone, and they're living off food shelf food and perhaps still sleeping in their cars or in tents all these months after "the Storm."

They're black and white and Vietnamese and Native American, rich and poor, Baptist and Pentecostal and Buddhist and Catholic and Episcopalian, Republican and Democratic.

I don't know how they voted. I just know that they feel forgotten.

[depakid]

27. The real question to ask is

would most of these people give a rats ass if it were anyone else? A Blue part of the country?

As Bush voters- they probably wouldn't. And as Republicans they will ALWAYS cry the loudest when something happens to them- generally becuase of policies they themselves supported.

[Benfea]

29. Why would you complain about getting exactly what you voted for?

Republicans don't make any damned sense.

[LittleClarkie]

33. Don't be too quick to say "Fuck em" folks. Those are close to being

Dem voters now. Like Michael Schiavo, they most likely have seen the light. Welcome them.