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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:43 AM
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God "finally cleaned up public housing" in NOLA, Repub Rep jokes.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/09/09/quote_of_the_day.html

September 09, 2005

Quote of the Day
"We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."

-- Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "overheard" in a conversation with lobbyists. "Baker explains later he didn't intend flippancy but has long wanted to improve low-income housing."
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:46 AM
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1. "My remarks were misinterpreted, and this is just finger-pointing!"
"There's just no excuse for the partisan tone on remarks taken completely out of context!"

I can hear the squealing already.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:47 AM
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2. God will not be mocked,
and I would not like to be in this guy's shoes when he has to stand before God and give an account for his comment.
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TWiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:52 AM
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12. God is mocked every time a republican opens his mouth.
There does not seem to be many "lightening bolts" out there correcting this situation.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:10 AM
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23. If only that were true.
*sigh*
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:47 AM
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3. Oh sure, that's what he meant. LIAR!
They make these racial and class slurs, and when quoted and called on it, they try to make their outrageous comments sounds compassionate! Disgusting!
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Bob3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:47 AM
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4. "improve" as in what level them?
So high priced condos could be built instead.

These pigs are so crazy they don't even know how to keep their damn mouths shut.
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faithfulcitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:47 AM
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5. my grandma, in-law, told me yesterday, that this disaster is...
"part of the cleansing that nature does." Could not believe it, never knew she was a nazi. Ironically and (sadly for me & hubby) we're taking her out for her birthday to a cajan restaurant and jazz concert, go figure.
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:55 AM
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15. I'm giving grandma-in-law the benefit of the doubt.
Perhaps she meant it more in the vein of those who believe wildfires are natures way of thinning a forest. Perhaps she meant that nature was cleaning the streets with all the water and returning the millions of wetlands arces to nature. I hope that's what she meant...
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faithfulcitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:59 AM
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18. uh, no...she meant the people. AND wholeheartedly agreed w/babs!
She is a nazi. My husband & I are distraught. This was a 1 hour conversation, not something she said in passing. She talked about survival of the fittest, called them low class, etc. fwiw, she has 2 granddaughters on welfare. :shrug: we're really not looking forward to seeing her tonight.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:58 AM
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17. Grandma-in-law Travis Bickle?
I, too, would probably give her the benefit of the doubt, but her comment surely reminds me of the title character in "Taxi Driver."

As for Congressman Dummkopf, I wonder if he included the home Trent Lott lost in his divine urban renewal plan? Of course, Trent's home (one of many he owns) has the president's personal guarantee that it will be rebuilt; the rest of the folks who've lost their one and only home? Ehhhh, not so much.
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whatever4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:47 AM
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6. Oh...gosh
Okay, this is wrong, because what I want to say is someone ought to take that bastard out right now.

I probably shouldn't say that.

But he probably shouldn't refer to the deaths of thousands of innocent people as "cleaned" and "housing" either.

So, I stand by it.
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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:47 AM
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7. As usual the Repugs true feeling always slip out in private talks.
The sad thing is that a big chunk of the public agrees with them. The wink-wink racism of the Repugs always there. That's why they've got and will hold the "solid" south.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:47 AM
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8. Did you hear the Rush caller that Springer has been playing on his
show this morning?

This woman was squawking about how the victims of Katrina are all welfare recipients and how they hit the jackpot getting a debit card, etc. . . . fucking EVIL wench.
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TWiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:50 AM
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11. This is proof of their "Compassionate Conservativism"
This is what it really is, and how it really works.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:49 AM
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9. This jerk should be ashamed of himself!
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:50 AM
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10. Yeah, right, I'll just BET that's how he meant his grossly insensitive
remark. Yeah, we uh... uh... we ... uh... we wanted to IMPROVE low-income housing, yeah, that's the ticket.

OMG! People DIED, and he thinks that remark is not inappropriate.
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:53 AM
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13. the racism that flows through the putid blood of the Republican Party
Racists. Goddam racists. Code words. Barbara Bush is "scared". Breaking up families.

This is ethnic cleansing.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:55 AM
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14. I LOVE it...
this is where they have lost all bearing of what is OK to say in public as opposed to the Klan meeting. Keep ip up motherfuc**rs
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:56 AM
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16. It's disgusting to hear something like that come out of the mouth ...
... of a John or Jane Doe, it rises to a whole new level of evil coming out of the mouth of someone entrusted with the public/common good :puke:
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 10:59 AM
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19. O.M.G - and THIS is the mentality of those running/ruining our country.
Edited on Fri Sep-09-05 11:11 AM by mzmolly
"GOD" didn't gut FEMA and the corp of engineers.
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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:09 AM
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20. To Quote Spider Robinson....
If you hear anybody making jokes about the refugees (...) you’ll never again mistake him or her for human.


Baker, it's obvious you've learned to wear shoes and not fingerpaint with your shit on the floor, but that's where your resemblance to a humane human stops.
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:09 AM
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21. He'll glom onto Bush's "major-league asshole" defense soon, just wait
(Notice that he's already fully embraced the Resmuglican policy of claiming that he was misinterpreted.) Soon Barker'll say, "It was wrong for people to hear that. It was wrong that a private comment went out over the public airwaves."

Here's a tip, jackass: it isn't the fault of the person who heard it that they have ears, get it? :mad:
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:10 AM
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22. what an insensitive ass-hole
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Dees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:14 AM
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24. 40 ounce Louisville Sluggers were made
to hit motherfuckers like Baker in the knees with. Repuglican scum.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:44 AM
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25. Misinterpret this
all of the people who you pigs are fucking now, aren't going to take it forever. Sooner or later people get tired of being kicked, the evidense for this is written in the history books that you fine people haven't read or scrubbed yet.
Usually, these dust ups aren't pretty, and usually it's the aristocracy that you people are trying so hard to create that feels it first.

With the way you assholes are treating the military, guess whose side they're going to be on? Man it's going to be a long cold winter, next spring is looking very ominous to me.
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stickdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:50 AM
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26. So THAT'S where the buck stops in Bush's Administration.
The way God cleaned the asbestos out of the WTC towers was pretty awesome as well.
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