{"id":374,"date":"2005-09-11T19:50:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T23:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/11\/asinine-quotes-about-katrina\/"},"modified":"2005-09-11T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T23:50:58","slug":"asinine-quotes-about-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/11\/asinine-quotes-about-katrina\/","title":{"rendered":"Asinine quotes about Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 stupid <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalhumor.about.com\/od\/currentevents\/a\/katrinaquotes.htm?nl=1\">quotes<\/a> about Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>My favs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n13) &#8220;We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans.  We couldn&#8217;t do it, but God did.&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201cRep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>4) &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a lot of rebuilding to do &#8230; The good news is \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and it&#8217;s hard for some to see it now \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott&#8217;s house \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he&#8217;s lost his entire house \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there&#8217;s going to be a fantastic house. And I&#8217;m looking forward to sitting on the porch.&#8221; (Laughter) \u00e2\u20ac\u201dPresident Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005<\/p>\n<p>12) &#8220;Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201cHouse Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston<\/p>\n<p>2) &#8220;What I&#8217;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) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this is working very well for them.&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201cFormer First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 stupid quotes about Katrina. My favs: 13) &#8220;We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn&#8217;t do it, but God did.&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201cRep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal 4) &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a lot of rebuilding to do &#8230; The good news is \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and it&#8217;s hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}