So, how much flak will Captain DeLay take for "The Hate Boat"?

PurityOfEssence

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:22 PM
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So, how much flak will Captain DeLay take for "The Hate Boat"?

Using a foreign cruise ship as a floating hotel of evil for the Republican Convention in New York is getting some resistance--as it should--from a few quarters. Will Pataki chide his party over this? Will they decide to withdraw the proposal?

Has anyone run the numbers on the tax savings for the freeloaders? Has anyone run the numbers for the clean-up and police costs with which the greedheads will soak the city?

Predictions, anybody?

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grannylib

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:27 PM
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1. I hope they stick to the plan and that the mutant sheep which seem to

make up much of the populace sees these evildoers for who they really are: sleazy hypocritical, of-, by- and for-the-rich slime.

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w13rd0

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:31 PM
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2. Well...

...maybe the ship will have a 247 in the air patrol and no-fly zone, like the aircraft carrier Bush slept in at the G8 convention (just months before 911) because they were afraid someone would hijack a plane and use it as a missle. Then they can observe offshore as they let another attack happen and just declare martial law.

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phillybri

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:37 PM
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3. I bet they end up doing it, and shooting themselves in the ass....

Fucking morons...

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tom_paine

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:39 PM
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4. None, none at all

It's that "liberal media".

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maxsolomon

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:44 PM
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5. who cares what you think?

1. the GOP helps the cruise industry, which has been hurt by TERROR.
2. america hates NYC, except when they love NYC for its heroism on 9-11 in the face of TERROR.
3. who's going to make a fuss? CBS?

why do you hate amurka?

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CBHagman

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:44 PM
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6. "The Hate Boat" soon will be making another run!

"Using a foreign cruise ship as a floating hotel of evil for the Republican Convention in New York..."

"Hotel of evil." I love it!

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Dudley_DUright

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:44 PM
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7. "Captain" DeLay was dealt a pretty good broadside by the NY Times

editorial page today. I read it with great pleasure:

New York's landlubbers find it more ludicrous than insulting that Tom DeLay, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, may offer to house hundreds of solons, fat-cat donors and lobbyists in a luxury cruise ship off the Manhattan shore during next summer's Republican National Convention. If he prevails over growing G.O.P. embarrassment at such a floating symbol of gated plutocracy, we urge Mr. DeLay to forgo any "Master and Commander" regalia he may have in mind. Instead, the flinty Texan should borrow Nathan Detroit's double-breasted pinstripes to come ashore from the newest established permanent floating avoidance game in New York.

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/opinion/02TUE4.html

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leftofthedial

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:45 PM
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8. I say put 'em all on it

and let them all catch the cruise-ship dysentery that's going around.

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meegbear

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:48 PM
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9. Naughty boy ...

I like it! :evilgrin:

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Silverhair

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:58 PM
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10. It's already over. No cruise ship. The other Reps in congress

have aleady taken DeLay to task. They are extremely well aware of the message such a thing would send. I don't have a link as this information was developed personally by making a few phone calls.

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PurityOfEssence

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Tue Dec-02-03 05:04 PM
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11. Oooh, spineless bugboy. Calls himself a man. Can't even fleece properly.

That ain't Republican. Start listening to dissent, who knows what'll happen. Positively sissified.

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AlabamaYankee

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Tue Dec-02-03 05:29 PM
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12. Is this recycled news?

I'm sure thia idea was floated a month or so ago, and then withdrawn in the face of criticism from the hotel industry and general ridicule in the press. What's going on with this crowd?

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