Grover Norquist blames chaos in NO on Dem Mayor & Dem Gov

[Jon8503]

See it is not race, its Bush politics as usual:


Bush partisans went on the offensive. Grover Norquist, the conservative activist with close ties to Karl Rove, blamed the chaos on "looting in a Democratic city run by a Democratic mayor and a Democratic governor."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9190580/

[benburch]

1. Can I drown Grover Norquist in my bathtub?

Please???

[annabanana]

5. sure.. can I watch?. . . . .eom

[fujiyama]

6. Damn you beat me

I was just going to tell him to go drown himself in a bathtub.

[Dudley_DUright]

21. Someone already beat you to it Ben

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x153293

[CBHagman]

44. Ooh, that's the first real laugh I've had all day.

:grouphug: :loveya:

How kind, how gracious you are to bring such joy in the midst of misery! Must think pleasant thoughts...

[jeffreyi]

41. I will stand by with an extra bucket of water nt

[spuddonna]

47. Can we fit the rest of the neo-cons in there too? n/t

[JHB]

51. For this comment, how about taking him to the "gatorbowl"...

... not the stadium, just a big bowl with nothing but Grover and some hungry 'gators.

[Gloria]

2. OK, now do we stand up?? Now do we say something,

Dem leaders???

Unconscionable, these people are really androids....

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

25. Are you kidding? They're waiting to see which way the wind is blowing.

Kucinich is the ONLY Dem that I have seen to make a forceful statement on this situation so far without first worrying about his own ass.

JB

[Jara sang]

3. fuck off Grover you piece of shit

[Snotcicles]

19. It's not the rest of the country's fault you weren't breastfed. n/t

[Garbo 2004]

4. I thought Grover liked small gov't so what did he expect folks to do?

Call out the national guard? Oh, that's right...they tried that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I thought we weren't supposed to politicize this.

I wish Grover Norquist would drown in his own bathtub.

[DBoon]

17. No, they just needed time

to figure out how to blame the Democrats.

[Snotcicles]

30. A pathetic attempt to squeeze a Democrats face in it somewhere. n/t

[classof56]

8. Grover Norquist is an idiot of monumental proportions.

Words fail me to describe the disdain I feel for him, Bush, and all his minions. Blame it on Democratics?? And we're not supposed to blame anything on Bush because it's a "natural disaster"? God, I can't even think straight anymore. SHAME on them!! May everyone know the truth and may the truth set us FREE of these evil, destructive ***holes!!

Tired Old Cynic

[Morning Dew]

9. "Big Government" is finally small enough to

drown NO anyway. Good on ya Grover, you fucktard.

[jmaier]

10. Hardly surprising, is it.

To be even-handed, anti-Bush partisans have been slinging away with broad indictments and hyperbole since Sunday, perhaps earlier.

I'm not defending Bush or FEMA's actions, merely noting that politics goes on, as usual. It's unfortunate.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Why don't we use this POS as a sandbag?

We should respond in kind and demand Bush's impeachment for having the National Guard in Iraq for his illegal war while the people of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi were in need of their Guard.

[RBHam]

12. Ha Ha

This guy should be arrested for his terrorist sympathizing.

Honest.

He once posed as a mujahadeen in a photo with mercenaries.

He publicly praised bin laden.

Admires Stalin.

Citizen's Arrest anyone?

[Snotcicles]

13. I think God is just ringing his hands

in anticipation of getting them around Norquist's neck some day.
Along with Novak, Rove, Hannity So on and So on and So on.

[punpirate]

14. I think I'd really enjoy...

... dropping him off in the Astrodome right now....

[Skidmore]

15. Interesting that Grover would comment at all.

Some Dem leader needs to get out there with his bathtub comment and remind the nation that NO drowned in Grover's bathtub. Grover is a terrorist, actively fighting to destroy this nations infrastructure. He is a traitor.

[Karmadillo]

16. Can't wait for Leading Democrats to go after him for that one.

nt

[daleo]

18. He's despicable.

Simply despicable.

[tibbiit]

20. I thought the mayor was a Repub?

(I know, it shocked me to find out too:)
tib

[philosophie_en_rose]

22. Fuck him.

Tom Russert interrupts: Shouldn’t the mayor of New Orleans and the governor bear some responsibility? Couldn’t they have been much more forceful, much more effective and much more organized about evacuating the area?

Aaron Broussard continues, but Tom Russert speaks over him: “Hold on a minute…”

Broussard: Sir, they were told, like me, every single day “The calvary’s coming.” On a federal level, “the calvary’s coming. the calvary's coming. the calvary's coming." I have just begun to hear the hoofs of the calvary. The cavalry is still not here yet, but I’ve begun to hear the hoofs and we’re almost a week out. Let me just give you three quick examples. We had Walmart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn’t need them. This was a week ago.

FEMA. We had a thousand gallons of diesel fuel on a coast guard vessel docked in my parish. The Coast Guard said “come get the fuel right away.” When we got there with out trucks, they got a word. “FEMA said don’t give you the fuel.”

Yesterday. Yesterday! FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. Cut em without notice. Our Sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in. He reconnects the line and he posts armed guards on our line. And he says, “No one’s getting near these lines.” Sheriff Harry Lee says if America … American government would have responded like Walmart has responded we wouldn’t be in this crisis. But I want to thank Governor Blanco for all she’s done and all the leadership. She sent in the National Guard. I just repaired a breach on my side of the 17th street canal, that the secretary didn’t foresee. A three hundred foot breach. I just completed it yesterday, with convoys of National guards and local parish workers and levy board people. It took us 2 and half days, working 24/7.

Russert interrupts with a grunt, sounds annoyed

Broussard: I just closed it. I’m telling you. Most importantly, I want to thank my public employees {Russert grunts again) that have worked 24/7, that burn out – the doctors, the nurses… I want to give you one last story and I’ll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me.

The guy who runs this building that I’m in , emergency management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped {Broussard starts to cry.} in St Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son?” “Is somebody coming?” And he said, “yeah Mama, somebody’s coming to get you. Somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday. And she drowned on Friday night. She drowned on Friday night.”

Russert interrupts: Mr. President…

Broussard: “Nobody’s coming to get us. Nobody’s coming to get us. The Secretary’s promised. Everybody’s promised. They’ve had press conferences. I’m.. I’m sick of the press conferences. For God’s sake, shut up and send us somebody!” {deep sobs}

Russert interrupts again, in a softer tone: Take a pause, Mr. President. While you gather yourself. These are very emotional times. I understand. Let me go to governor Haley Barber of Mississippi (sp?).

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[The Backlash Cometh]

24. This is more heinous than Pat Robertson's call for assassination of

Chavez. Norquist is guilty as hell, and he knows it.

[judaspriestess]

26. Well now it all makes sense on the slow response

First The Bush admin lets 9/11 happen. Sorry folks but a plane does not fly in the wrong direction for an hour without airtraffic control knowing about it.

and now they are slow to respond to this to further show how INCOMPETENT the democrats really are. This administration is as EVIL as it gets. I'm actually scared now. Karl Rove is really really an evil pig.
Its the democrats fault.

[Joanne98]

27. I hope Grover is proud of himself. The government is small enough...

To drown babies in the bathtub! Congratulations Grover! Mission accomplished!

[Old and In the Way]

28. Front man for Al Qaeda fundraisers.....why does Norquist hate

America so much? When we get our governnment back, I hope he's brought to justice with the rest of the junta.

[Skidmore]

37. This has been around for a while.

Some one in a position to actually do something needs to smear Grover all over the place. He'a a nasty little parasite.

[Lindsay]

29. Go away, Grover.

Your little junta is so over.

[judaspriestess]

31. Question

How quick did Florida get their disaster aid????

[Cha]

32. grover pissant norquist is circling

the drain of his own dirty little bathtub!

[Dudley_DUright]

33. Shut up Grover, I think your little cabal has already done enough damage

[Obamarama]

34. Grover Norquist can suck the shit straight out of my ass and choke on it.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

35. The NO chaos is directly attributable to Norquist - his idea of no gov.

[Triana]

36. Oh THERE'S a surprise...

...HA!

[Mr_Spock]

38. What did you expect from another shit-fuck bigot Repuke moron

He would kill his mother for a dollar - like any Republican.

[libhill]

49. Hell, he'd do it for a quarter -

n/t

[mitchum]

39. Amazing that Norquist walks around DC WITHOUT taxpayer funded...

protection and spouts off inflammatory shit like this so often

[RSchewe]

40. I need to call my man Oscar the Grouch to kick Grover's ass n/t

[texpatriot2004]

42. The real Grover Norquist is expressed in the image with Grover

quote found at this DU thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2059559

[Double T]

43. Preservation of the republican's image is first and foremost.......

even at the expense of the Katrina disaster and its victims. IMPEACH bush NOW!!!!!!!

[applegrove]

45. Right - and some A-rabs ran through the offices of the Pentagon,

FEMA, the State Department, the WH and erased all their knowledge and files on what to do in a crisis.

Dam that really big magnet!

[texpatriot2004]

46. Typical policy for this administration blame goes down, not up.

:shrug:

[brettdale]

48. Im feeling sick to my stomach

With what the right is going to put the Mayor thru in the next few days.

I hope Im wrong, and the media will put blame where it deserves to be.

[JHB]

50. But now's not the time for pointing fingers and politicizing...

...and if you believe that, I have some oceanfront property in Montana to sell you.

[Emit]

52. Norquist is an ass, but I wouldn't underestimate his roll with media

We will likely see a great deal of what he says being repeated elsewhere. My only hope in this case is that so many of these participants in Norquist's "fax tree" will grow some balls (or ovaries) and speak truth to power rather than continue the "echo effect".

If you haven't read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s an article, The Disinformation Society, now is a good time to do so (I posted this same thing on other related threads, but it is very fitting here, too):

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=874

Norquist has a lock on the media message that is so tight that it’s positively frightening. Kennedy, in his article The Disinformation Society, lays out Norquist’s control of the media using some references from David Brock’s book, The Republican Noise Machine…

… “the cues by which mainstream news directors decide what is important to cover are no longer being suggested by The New York Times and other responsible media outlets, but rather by the “shadowy” participants of a Washington, D.C. meeting convened by Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform., an anti-government organization that seeks to prevent federal regulation of business.”

“Every Wednesday morning the leaders of 80 conservative organizations meet in Washington in Norquist’s boardroom. This radical cabal formulates policy with the Republican National Committee and the White House, developing talking points that go out to the conservative media via a sophisticated fax tree. Soon, millions of Americans are hearing the same message from cable mews commentators and thousands of talk jocks across America. Their precisely crafted message and language then percolate through the mainstream media to form the underlying assumptions of our national debate.”

“This meeting has now grown to include more than 120 participants, including industry lobbyists and representatives of conservative media outlets such as The Washington Times and the National Review. According to Brock, columnist Bob Novak sends a researcher. The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan may attend in person. The lockstep coordination among right-wing political operatives and the press is new in American politics.”

A typical meeting might focus on a new tax proposal released by President Bush. Following conference calls throughout the week, the decision will be made to call the plan “bold.” Over the next 10 days, radio and cable will reiterate that it’s “bold, bold, bold.” The result, according to Brock, is that “people come to think that there must be something “bold” about this plan.”

“This highly integrated network has given the right frightening power to disseminate its propaganda and has dramatically changed the way Americans get their information and formulate policy. In The Republican Noise Machine, Brock alleges routine fraud and systematically dishonest practices by his former employer the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times, which is the primary propaganda organ for Moon’s agenda to establish America as a Fascist theocracy. The paper doesn’t reach more than a hundred thousand subscribers, but its articles are read on air by Rush Limbaugh, reaching 15 million people, and are posted on Matt Drudge’s Website, to reach another 7 million people, and its writers regularly appear on The O’Reilly Factor, before another 2 million. Network TV talk-show producers and bookers use those appearances as a tip sheet for picking subject matter and guests for their own shows. And so the capacity of the conservative movement to disseminate propaganda has increased exponentially.”

The article in its entirety can be found here:

http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1517

[laststeamtrain]

53. Mullah Grover has got to go!