Did they make fun of Katrina victims last night?

[MaryEllen9399]

Sick bastards.

[Why Syzygy]

1. Details?

[Berry Cool]

3. When Mike Huckabee said he didn't want to wait around for the government to help him,

and said that was why he was a Republican despite not being born rich--and got riotous applause--that seemed like a response that was aimed directly at ridiculing the very idea of anyone who for a moment believes in anything other than, as Obama said last week, "the 'ownership society' that means 'You're on your own.'"

Which could well mean: "There was a hurricane and the levees breached and your city flooded? You're stranded on a rooftop waiting for someone to rescue you because you didn't have the money to drive away or for a hotel to stay in? You went to a shelter because that's what you were told to do and now there's no food or water there? You're on your own."

ed. for typo

[Why Syzygy]

4. Thanks ..

No problem. I promise when Mike is drowning, we will send no help. Pull himself up with bootstraps when he has no boots. What an asshole.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Actually, Huckabee's response to Katrina was quite good.

After Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005, an estimated 70,000 evacuees fled to Arkansas and Huckabee ordered state agencies to take care of them. State parks offered discounts, waived pet restrictions, and bumped other reservations in favor of evacuees. Pharmacists were given emergency authority to dispense prescriptions and provide access to dialysis machines. Shelters opened up in nearly every portion of the state, and Huckabee requested that the entire state be declared a disaster area. It was not. Many of these shelters, either closed or set to close, were reopened or kept open to process a "second wave" of Katrina evacuees moved from Texas in the wake of arriving Hurricane Rita. (See also Hurricane Katrina disaster relief).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee

And these remarks from a 9/12/05 interview on PBS NewsHour:

Governor Huckabee, I gather that 60,000 number means that your population has increased by two and a half percent. How are you doing this?

GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Well, we're handling it very well, Gwen. The people of Arkansas have accepted these folks as neighbors and friends and have asked them to practice the golden rule: Treat them like you'd want to be treated, and they've done that and I'm very proud of them. This is a disaster that has touched all of our hearts but it has also caused us to reach out our hands, and we try to make sure that we can assimilate these people by spreading out the evacuees not just in one location, but we created 26 camps using church camps that were closed for the summer, perfect timing, and we've been able to get folks there as well as obviously the thousands that are staying either with family, friends, hotels, motels, and other forms of shelter.

GWEN IFILL: What kind of effect has this had on -- or strain has this placed on public services?

GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Well, once again, because we've spread it out, we have not felt like we've been overwhelmed. I mean, our hospitals are certainly getting a lot of new patients, we have people in nursing homes; we have kids going into public schools by the thousands. But the net result is no one school district is having to absorb all of the impact because of the way they're spread.

But the key reason we felt that spreading evacuees to many parts of the state, they get a lot more personal attention, and one thing we feel very strongly about: These people need to feel as individuals, every one of them is a special person; they don't need to be somehow corralled into making that they're in a group, that everyone has a name. We need to call them by name, let them get to know a volunteer by name, build relationships -- because what they've been through has been very, very dehumanizing.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/july-dec05/relocation_9-12.html

[C_U_L8R]

2. hey made fun of everybody last night

aristocratic nitwits.

ENOUGH !

[quantass]

5. Oh yea!