Let Them Eat Cake!
By: elevandoski
Published On: 8/31/2006 10:48:53 PM
"Let them eat cake" said Marie Antoinette flippantly upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat.
"They didn't want to leave", said Rep. Thelma Drake on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and when asked by an alternative weekly in Virginia why so many people were left behind in New Orleans when the Hurricane struck. The question referred to residents unable to evacuate who took refuge in the Superdome, as well as people trying to leave on foot who were blocked by armed police from adjacent towns. (TPM Cafe.)
"[T]his is working very well for them", said Barbara Bush during a visit to the Hurricane Katrina refugee shelter in the Houston Astrodome. "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. 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."
Comments
Good point (lwumom - 8/31/2006 11:01:02 PM)
There's nothing else...really...that we can say, is there? Their words say it all.
Barbara Bush (Mark - 8/31/2006 11:31:16 PM)
ia a first class asshole.
Just sayin'.
So is Relma Rake. (elevandoski - 8/31/2006 11:35:44 PM)
RR and BB (elevandoski - 8/31/2006 11:36:39 PM)
Tra, La, La
This made my day ! (beachydem - 9/2/2006 1:05:59 PM)
..and hungry for cake :) Thelma follow's the GOP script like a good little puppet, doesn't she? It truly concerns me Dick, George and Laura have to come here to stump for her, why is VA-02 so important to hold?
Follow the leader? (VA Breeze - 9/3/2006 11:20:37 PM)
I wonder if they are pushing so hard in this district as Thelma has voted with Bush 97% of the time-so it is a indicator of how the voters feel about Bush's policy?
