GOP Politicians Will Help Get Relief Funds

[Judi Lynn]

GOP Politicians Will Help Get Relief Funds
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, September 6, 2005
(09-06) 00:27 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

A triumvirate of Republican power brokers may give Mississippi first dibs in the post-Hurricane Katrina grab for federal disaster funds even though the federal government focused its initial response to the storm on New Orleans.

The state's senior senator, Thad Cochran, is the new chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the panel charged with determining how much and where the recovery money will be spent.

Its junior senator's home — a place where GOP leaders from across the country once bantered about politics from rocking chairs on a porch overlooking the Gulf of Mexico — was flattened by Katrina.

"There's nothing there now," Sen. Trent Lott said of his historic Pascagoula house, which had been 12 feet above sea level. "I found my refrigerator, from my kitchen. It went down the street two blocks, turned left and went into a neighbor's yard."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/06/national/a000116D13.DTL

[OKDem08]

1. oh, boo! hoo!

people are drowning & Trent Lott is discussing the momentum & direction of his appliance :cry:

[AZBlue]

9. Smart appliance - can turn corners and everything!

It seems smarter than Trent Lott!

[LynneSin]

2. FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!! cOME ON - New Orleans was hit worst

I know that all of those states need help but don't go using your pull in order to pull more money in for your own state.

Typical repukes. Next I'll hear how Michael Brown will give a couple billion of the Katrina money to Miami Fl!

[opihimoimoi]

3. Their statements reveal their Level of thought and compassion

MEism at its best....

[Moderator]

4. kick

[Gloria]

5. GOP Politicians Will Help Get Relief Funds-AP (LA LAST!!!)

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050906030909990004


Updated: 03:09 AM EDT
GOP Politicians Will Help Get Relief Funds
By LAURIE KELLMAN, AP


WASHINGTON (AP) - A triumvirate of Republican power brokers may give Mississippi first dibs in the post-Hurricane Katrina grab for federal disaster funds even though the federal government focused its initial response to the storm on New Orleans.

The state's senior senator, Thad Cochran, is the new chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the panel charged with determining how much and where the recovery money will be spent.

Its junior senator's home - a place where GOP leaders from across the county once bantered about politics from rocking chairs on a porch overlooking the Gulf of Mexico - was flattened by Katrina.

"There's nothing there now," Sen. Trent Lott said of his historic Pascagoula house, which had been 12 feet above sea level. "I found my refrigerator, from my kitchen. It went down the street two blocks, turned left and went into a neighbor's yard."

Add Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and Mississippi packs more political muscle than the other storm-ravaged states of Louisiana and Alabama.

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[stevedeshazer]

6. I have nothing but blackhearted contempt for these murderers.

I truly hate them now.

I'd like to roast their intestines on a stick.

[MisterP]

7. didn't President Satan say he was God-Emperor of "all the Americans,"

not just the pro-Bushies

[Gloria]

8. The Dems better come out swinging on all this crap...

A campaign, every day, every lie, every crass act. And call these thugs on that "values" crap...