From The Huffington Post today:
September 1, 2008 at 07:01 PM
"The PR push by the GOP to present itself as the party that puts "country first" was already broken by the first night of Republican National Convention.
Fearful of "Katrina deja-vu," GOP officials worked furiously to prove to voters that they could manage a disaster in a way the Bush administration failed to do three years ago.
The convention opened Monday night with a video presentation of Gulf Coast governors introduced by Cindy McCain and Laura Bush. "This is a time when we take off our Republican hats."
Yes, it is the Republican Party that really cares about the downtrodden. If anyone can respond to a natural disaster that threatens the poor and the middle class, it is Buch-Cheney-McCain-Palin. Afterall, they were so sensitive during the aftermath of Katrina-
"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005
John McCain cautioned against overspending in support of Katrina victims: "We also have to be concerned about future generations of Americans," he said. "We're going to end up with the highest deficit, probably, in the history of this country." Right. Because of helping victims. Not at all because of Iraq or any of the other examples of gross mismanagement by the Bush administration.
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." –President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005
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