Listen DUers: Do not let Bush fool you

[malaise]

According to the Star Tribune this morning, he was heading there for a Coleman fund raising. Further:
The Republican National Committee (RNC) scheduled its 2007 summer meeting for this weekend in Minneapolis as something of a pep rally for the presidential Republican National Convention scheduled for the twin city of St. Paul late next year. But the event has taken on a more somber cast in the wake of the horrific bridge collapse in central Minneapolis that occurred Wednesday evening — just as the four-day RNC gathering was getting under way.

Tracey Schmitt, an RNC spokeswoman, said the annual meeting would go forward, although the schedule was in flux after the disaster. “The mood has certainly shifted to one of concern and empathy,” said Schmitt, who added that all of the more than 200 attendees of the meeting were accounted for.

Delegates to the conference, titled “Republican for a Reason,” met up Wednesday night at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center, located approximately three miles from the Interstate-35W bridge that collapsed without warning into the Mississippi River, killing at least four people and injuring dozens more.

Several other events were scheduled around the RNC meeting. The Leadership Institute — based in Arlington, Va., and self-described as the “premier training ground for tomorrow’s conservative leaders” — was moving forward with its Grassroots Activist School at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Minneapolis on Thursday and Friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/08/02/cq_3214.html
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It's all about them.

[rzemanfl]

1. Don't worry "duh, uh, ah...............um, you can't fool me again." n/t

[AndyTiedye]

5. "You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time, and Those are the Ones You Want to Concentrate On"

[shaniqua6392]

2. Not to mention....

that the bridge will be fixed in a most speedy way since the Republican National Convention will be held there next summer!! And there is a Republican Governor in Minnesota. He does not fool us at all. And the people in New Orleans will still be waiting.

[aquart]

3. Golly. THEY could have been on that bridge.

(Feeling bitter for just a moment.)

[malaise]

8. Well Tracy Schmitt did a headcount

"...all of the more than 200 attendees of the meeting were accounted for".


No one else matters :sarcasm:

[elocs]

4. Has DU typically been a place where Bush could fool people? n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. I don't think so. nt

[malaise]

11. No, but some lurkers might just believe he's going there to

empathize with the poor people of Minnesota. He is heading there to raise money for Coleman and Laura was always going to speak with young Rethugs.

[WinkyDink]

6. Bush has never fooled me.

[AndyA]

9. Well, this really did work out pretty well for Bush then, didn't it?

Now he can go "officially" and have the American taxpayers, including those who do not and have not ever supported his sorry ass, pick up the whole tab for the trip. That goes for Laura "the murderer" Bush as well.

[malaise]

12. Very neat n/t

[Uncle Joe]

10. They will probably wrap black bands around the cash

as a sign of mourning.

[EFerrari]

13. That's the most popular seminar at the Grassroots Activist School.

:rofl:

At the Hyatt.

:rofl:

[malaise]

14. Grassroots and Hyatt

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I hope the real grassroots boycott their sorry asses :rofl: :rofl:

[malaise]

15. Do you think it's possible that they're keeping down the number

of dead deliberately because of their meetings?

[Uncle Joe]

16. I wouldn't put anything past them, malaise.

If 0 were to represent no trust of them and 100 total trust, I'm in the minus category when it comes to believing anything the Bush maladministration says.

Everything they do is political and if they told me, the sun would rise tomorrow morning, I would be too nervous to sleep tonight.

[hannah]

17. Chertoff

Didn't he kind of say, he had a gut feeling something was going to happen

[Uncle Joe]

20. I

don't believe he was speaking of this, from what I can tell at this point, it was a tragic accident due to neglect of our infrastructure, not terrorism.

I would place more of the blame along the lines of Grover Norquist's philosophy of shrinking government until you could drown it, in a bath tub. They set their priorities, with their, leave no billionaire behind tax cuts and blowing another trillion on a voluntary, ill conceived war based on lies with Iraq. They don't believe in a public or greater good, only every man or woman for them self and screw the rest and this is the inevitable price we pay.

[malaise]

21. Indeed

government drowns in Grover's bath tub and citizens drown in the rivers.

This one was caused by neglect and indifference. On one of the threads on the day the pipes broke in New York a few weeks ago, we were discussing the state of infrastructure and I actually wrote that there would be massive outrage following the next bridge collapse. I had no idea it would be this soon, but if you read enough, this is hardly a surprise.

[Uncle Joe]

22. Yes,

this could just as easily have been a levee in New Orleans or any other bridge in the U.S.

The Republicans are always saying government can't do a job as efficiently as the private sector, and then they do every thing in their power to make it so, by their corrupt, incompetence and warped values as to what a nation should be and how a government should act.

[malaise]

19. I share your views on these goons

I'm surprised KO doesn't know they're meeting in Minnesota from yesterday to the weekend. Brian Williams doesn't appear to know either. The latter mentioned their convention next year.

[Faux pas]

18. "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in

Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
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He can only fool his 'base' who are as base as he is.

[snacker]

23. Good lord...

our family chose quite the weekend to visit our daughter in Minneapolis!

[Raine]

24. The only people chimp

is able to fool is his 20% hard core wingnuts. x(