AMERICAblog: Gustav is gathering strength, headling towards Gulf Coast states
loona_c
· 1 year ago
I think it's funny that conservative christian republicans were praying for rain during Obama's open air stadium speech. Then they instead get a hurricane.
dad
· 1 year ago
based on scotty's logic they must be looking for another Terri Schiavo to make it a three-fer
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
OT:
New audio up.
Sarah Palin laughs uproariously as two radio guys call one of her female colleagues a "b*tch" and makes fun of the woman's battle with cancer.
hell, go for another major bank failure or two and make it a four-fer
evan_la
· 1 year ago
Typical. 71 people dead, and this could be 'good for the Republican party'.
dad
· 1 year ago
seriously, with the next katerine harris as your running mate, how could you go wrong?
ree-fer
ClintonHater
· 1 year ago
I was actually looking forward to Bush speaking at the RNC.
Kansaskitty
· 1 year ago
Shows just what is wrong with these people - they look at every event as a political opportunity. Never mind that they actually don't do anything to allay any crisis - they just use it as an "opportunity" to LOOK like they are on the job. Charlatans, all of them. Including Palin.
elsbet
· 1 year ago
Michael Moore stepped up to represent our side of the spectrum, unfortunately as a complete and total idiot: “I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said, laughing. “To have it planned at the same time – that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for day one of the Republican Convention, up in the Twin Cities – at the top of the Mississippi River.”
Isn't this a good time for us folks on the left to just kick the pea-brained, fuck-witted moron out into the cold? I'd do it myself but I'm too busy trying to evacuate ahead of the storm.
For those of us actually here, living in New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana, all this speculation on whether this is good for or bad for a political party is just insulting. Enough already! Stop using us for cheap political points - this is real life!
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
Michael Moore supported Ralph Nader in 2000. I haven't had a lot of use for him since.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
I hate to agree but I think McClellan is right. Republican WILL use the hurricaine as evidence that things are changed for the better and it will give George Bush an excuse to stay away from the convention.
There is nothing Republicans won't do OR won't use to win this election, Palin is the latest example of that.
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
Off Thread: Check out McCain at Pallin's introduction. He can't keep his eyes off her boobs:
True that! What's more, he doesn't applaud until he notices that others are applauding. Then his hands get in the way of his gaze so he makes a weird face as if it isn't going the way he wants it to.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Are you that wasn't a spoof from the ONION about McClellen?
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
McClellan's lemons-into-lemonade conjuring trick reminds me of the Fox News guy that Olbermann named his second-worst person in the world last night, who says Palin DOES have foreign policy experience because Alaska is right next to Russia.
Slim Cognito
· 1 year ago
Soooo, if people have to evacuate and more lives are lost and property destroyed, it will be good for McCain and Bush? Way to list your priorities Scotty.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Turning a potential disaster into a political opportunity is only something a Republican would do. To hear Scotty verbalize it speaks to his outlook on life. Personal tragedy becomes personal gain. Do these motherfuckers actually sleep at night, oh that's right, they sleep during the day after sucking the lifeblood out of this country.
MommaKat
· 1 year ago
reading through the article and comments, and I'm sorry but nothing about politicizing another hurricane landing in that region (regardless of which side you fall on in the political spectrum) is funny, ironic, or in any way humorous. I was down in LA participating in disaster relief when Bush was posing for photo ops and assuring the nation that everything possible was being done. It wasn't then, and isn't now. I still cry when I look at photos people I met and cared for in Louisiana send me, or see crap on the tele. The way people were and continue to be treated is abominable. Please - no more political jokes about the hurricanes. Hannah's right on Gustav's heels and this is looking like a repeat of three years ago (I was only home 9 days before leaving to help out for Rita.) We know the GOP's and Scotty's priorities are crap, but isn't this an opportunity to show that progressives can set poliitics aside to help out in a crisis?
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
I was just about to make a comment on the hurricane with the opposite view of McClellan's, adding a disclaimer that I hoped no citizens were harmed by it. But I decided even against saying that. However, now that McClellan has made his cynical comment politicizing the weather, as if God is on the side of the Republicans, I will say that I do not think it will help the Republicans. Even if they get every person out of harm's way, and I hope they do, the Republicans are not going to be able to prevent the levees from breaking again if Gustav hits NOLA because they've done a mediocre job of trying to fix them, and they are not going to be able to prevent damage and destruction from hitting the off-shore oil rigs. One of their arguments, I believe, is that off-shore drilling is immune to hurricanes. And hasn't "Scottie" shown which side he is still on?
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Hurricanes are political events. A refrehsing rain in Connecticut it ain't. A hurricane is a social event with poltical repercussions that resonate for years. How did Charlie Crist get elected governor of Florida? We're still grateful for his practical measures after Hurrcane Charlie. He took over from Governor Jeb who flubbed badly, stopped the looting and the price-gouging, and stepped in with financial aid. Charlie's future is not a bright as his past but at least he had a bright past.
nsr
· 1 year ago
Well, I had to laugh. Maybe I'm twisted. Scott MacClellan still doesn't get the fact that Bush is flat out incapable of doing anything in the face of this or any other disaster-- Scott, don't you remember? Gummint is the enemy! This philosophy has literally cost people their lives. And does someone who responds to dire warnings with "ok, you've covered your ass" sound like he can even begin to understand what he has to do?
I dunno. Maybe Scott blanked out the last 7 years.
Andrew
· 1 year ago
As per information just received, whether you live on the Gulf or up in Maine or California, you might just want to top off your cars gas tank and keep some extra food around. Why? A couple of reasons. Gustave will be a cat 3 or 4 storm by the time it hits the Louisiana / Texas border where all of the oil refineries are located. If this happens, gas and oil are going to go through the roof and the Bush's and Clintons know this. Perhpas that is why they got their hands on an illegal 18 billion yesterday and went long oil futures so they could clean up financially. If this istorm is as bad as people say it is going to be, if there is a severe shortage of fuel, remember that most food is transported by trucks. At best, the US has only a three day supply of both food and fuel at any one time. For further information on what the Bush's and Clintons are up to ( an believe me it isn't looking out for us ) read todays update at www.worldreports.org
doug
· 1 year ago
Blackwater is already on the scene in NO. Blackwater will stay on alert until after the Nov. elections to ensure social chaos does not break out when McSame steals the election.
MommaKat
· 1 year ago
just in 12:29 MST from joint FEMA / Amerian Red Cross press conference, Gustav is a cat 5 and will cross western edge of Cuba, therefore weakening little if any before making landfall in the U.S. FEMA's reaction? They're on TV lauding themselves on how well they've changed from a reactive to a proactive agency, all the positive things they've done since Katrina, blah, blah, blah. I don't and won't believe a word of it, though I do pray for those living in the area that FEMA handles this better.
NHC is correcting FEMA saying no, it's a cat 4 still expected to reach cat 5 and hit U.S. at a minimum of a cat 3 but possible cat 4 strength. Sucks either way!!
elsbet
· 1 year ago
"Turning a potential disaster into a political opportunity is only something a Republican would do. "
First, you mean "something only a Republican would do." And second, when did Michael Moore become a Republican?
Really, people, knock off the self-righteousness. I'm long past being sickened by the failures of FEMA and the Corps of Engineers, but I don't need so-called progressives dancing on our graves either, out of ignorant, mindless enjoyment of getting a dig in at the Bush administration. Just fuckin' stop it. Fuck anyone, left or right, who gets wants to turn New Orleans into your stupid little chess piece on the political game board.
To quote our finest NOLA blogger, the late, great Ashley Morris: fuck you, you fucking fucks.
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New audio up.
Sarah Palin laughs uproariously as two radio guys call one of her female colleagues a "b*tch" and makes fun of the woman's battle with cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkydrUnBZE
ree-fer
Isn't this a good time for us folks on the left to just kick the pea-brained, fuck-witted moron out into the cold? I'd do it myself but I'm too busy trying to evacuate ahead of the storm.
For those of us actually here, living in New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana, all this speculation on whether this is good for or bad for a political party is just insulting. Enough already! Stop using us for cheap political points - this is real life!
There is nothing Republicans won't do OR won't use to win this election, Palin is the latest example of that.
Check out McCain at Pallin's introduction. He can't keep his eyes off her boobs:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc5ObA_k2dc&eurl=...
Hilarious and Creepy.
I dunno. Maybe Scott blanked out the last 7 years.
For further information on what the Bush's and Clintons are up to ( an believe me it isn't looking out for us ) read todays update at www.worldreports.org
NHC is correcting FEMA saying no, it's a cat 4 still expected to reach cat 5 and hit U.S. at a minimum of a cat 3 but possible cat 4 strength. Sucks either way!!
First, you mean "something only a Republican would do." And second, when did Michael Moore become a Republican?
Really, people, knock off the self-righteousness. I'm long past being sickened by the failures of FEMA and the Corps of Engineers, but I don't need so-called progressives dancing on our graves either, out of ignorant, mindless enjoyment of getting a dig in at the Bush administration. Just fuckin' stop it. Fuck anyone, left or right, who gets wants to turn New Orleans into your stupid little chess piece on the political game board.
To quote our finest NOLA blogger, the late, great Ashley Morris: fuck you, you fucking fucks.