MOTIVATIONAL POSTER: compassionate cons in New Orleans (GRAPHIC!)

[yurbud]

[KitchenWitch]

1. may want to add a warning about the graphic nature of the photo

in your subject line.

I do like the work though!

[yurbud]

2. how's that?

[KitchenWitch]

7. very good!

Some folks might be a bit squeamish...

[poverlay]

3. I'd like to send this to all the * voters out there~with all my heart..n/t

[yurbud]

8. nothing is stopping you from printing it on a postcard and mailing

you don't even have to put a return address.

Or if you do, just mark it "the White House"

[aquart]

4. Yes. That's the picture I want to send out.

Poor Grover. That quote is gonna be heard around the world.

[silverweb]

5. That's a powerful graphic.

There's one small problem, though, which is that the Norquist quote is incorrect. It's a good paraphrase, but it's not an accurate quote. You may want to do some checking before finalizing.

[yurbud]

6. if you find a definitive one, let me know--he's kind of squirrelly on

confirming this one.

Bill Moyers asked him to confirm it and he sidestepped.

[silverweb]

13. I've found two versions.

I don't know if they're separate quotes made at different times or what, exactly, but here you go:

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
http://www.thenationaldebate.com/blog/archives/2005/02/norquist_sidest.html

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010514/dreyfuss

[Jokinomx]

29. silverweb.....

It's people like you that make this site the best on the planet. I can't tell you how many times I have come to the D.U. with a question and someone, somewhere will help me out. In this case... a small item...but... you give credance to the original poster. Thanks


:toast: to all Du'ers

:yourock:

[silverweb]

31. You're too kind.

:blush:

I just don't like to see any DUer's valuable efforts dismissed or put down by the opposition because of a technical inaccuracy. It's absolutely imperative that we be as completely factual and accurate as humanly possible or we damage our own efforts, and that's where we can help each other.

As for this comment: "I can't tell you how many times I have come to the D.U. with a question and someone, somewhere will help me out," -- I couldn't agree with you more. So many times I've needed input and multiple DU voices have answered with positive help.

:toast:

[tkmorris]

10. I say the hell with em

They've been repeating that "Gore says he invented the internet" crap for years. That Norquist quote is accurate at least in spirit, far more so than anything they say about Dems.

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[yurbud]

9. if you like it, give it a rec!

[renate]

11. that's somebody's father, or son, or brother, or husband....

It just absolutely crushes me that that is how his life ended and how his body, which was so tender and precious to his mother and father, ended up drifting like it was just flotsam. It just absolutely breaks my heart.

There aren't tears enough in the whole wide world.

[yurbud]

15. that's why it's important to show, like Emmett Till's crushed face

this is the face of "compassionate conservatism."

[nicknameless]

12. Recommended. That image is extremely powerful in a number of ways.

* voters may want to take a closer look. This victim's appearance would seem to resemble a rather large segment of red-staters. (Race and clothing)

This nightmare administration allowed (understatement) the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Americans of modest means. How will the government handle the next tornado season across the midwest? Not a lot of "Pioneer" donors there.

Just sayin'

[yurbud]

17. good point. I picked photo for the composition, but...

it does add a layer of irony that it's a white guy who might have had a W sticker on his bumper.

[cynatnite]

16. Very brutal and powerful!

Sad to know how true it is.

[yurbud]

19. give it a rec to get on greatest page

[cynatnite]

23. I already did n/t

[Zynx]

18. Norquist is an evil man.

[yurbud]

21. yeah, I got a link to his plan for a one party state:

it's pretty grim.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0409.norquist.html

[Zynx]

36. He is sick.

What the hell is wrong with this guy? He appears to be the most shining example of what happens when you let money consume your life.

[yurbud]

40. he's the nerd who was picked on by people like Bush...

When you are that person, you only have a couple of reactions:

1. Avoid the bully

2. plot revenge

3. suck up to the bully and help him kick other people's asses.


It's not hard to tell which Grover picked.

He's probably in Gannon's little black book too.

[bpilgrim]

20. Added to the Katrina Archive

http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2247

more...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/index.php?cat=19

peace

[yurbud]

22. Dog eating dead guy looks like Fallujah (GRAPHIC)

[alfredo]

42. Check post # 41 for the quote added to image.

This is bush's legacy.

[pepperbear]

24. you're a star! check out the freep responses to this!!! makes ya laugh.

like they have an ounce of compassion? for rill!

http://www.hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28005

[aztaz]

27. con response

If it had been a brown skinned kurd who had been gassed by saddam, they would make it into a bumpersticker.

[yurbud]

33. to Freepers monitoring this: Who has fascination with death?

Us or the president and his cronies that are profiting from it in Iraq?

Even if you believe what he says about trying to spread democracy in the Middle East (which is a good idea) who is spooging about spreading it by killing Iraqis?

We could spread democracy without killing anyone and by spending less money--simply stop supporting dictators in the region like Mubarak, Musharraf, and the Saudis, the last of which often ranked higher than Saddam on list of human rights abusers. We give them weapons and aid.

But of course Bush doesn't want that even in Iraq. He wants the oil, and had a plan to privatize and expropriate it before they went in. You can see the documents and see interviews with the players like Grover Norquist (who helped write the plan) and General Jay Garner who said stealing their oil would inflame resistance to the occupation--so he was fired. In their interim constitution, the Bushies made it as difficult as possible for the Iraqis to undo this crime.

http://www.gregpalast.com/iraqmeetingstimeline.html


If you read polls of Iraqis, the overwhelming majority want us to leave. A third of the legislators elected in the election we oversaw have signed a letter asking us to leave. The horrible Muqtada al Sadr commited the terrorist act of collecting a petition with a million signatures asking us to leave.


You guys don't really care about any of this. You just like the idea of killing some A-rabs, the same way you don't really care if the people executed when Bush was governor of Texas were innocent or guilty.

I'm trying to do you guys a favor. The next time Bush decides to punish a local official during a natural disaster by withholding help, it could be you or a family member face down in the water. Just as Cindy Sheehan is trying to tell you that your kid or nephew could die in Iraq, inflaming hatred against the US and increasing the threat of terrorism, not reducing it. Don't take my word for it. Pollster John Zogby found over 90% of Arabs didn't believe our stated reasons for the war when we went in, and a year later, that number was HIGHER--98% in Egypt.

This is just like the White House intimidation and censorship of reporters in Iraq that middle and working class republicans obediently go along with. You like the idea of killing but throw a hissy fit when someone shows you what you approve of. You're like kids who throw a rock off an overpass and then cry like a fucking baby when the cops catch you and make you look at the face you crushed.

[yurbud]

35. Freepers think photos of 9/11 victims would show support for Bush(?)

I guess if your sources of information are limited to talk radio and fox news and you studiously avoid the investigative journalism done in the rest of the world, you wouldn't know that Bush ignored the ample warnings he had for 9/11, just he ignored the warnings and underfunded the repairs that would have mitigated the damage of the hurricane.

It's just sad. Why don't you righties start fact-checking and doing your own research rather than relying on people like Sean who you should know by now consistently lie to you?

http://www.hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28005&page=6&pp=10

you know, I'm thinking... let the DU'er post their photo.

As long as we can start posting the 9/11 WTC photos and remind folks how terrible that day was.

Of course the DU'er will probably balk that the photos are insensitive to the Islamofacist.

[I Have A Dream]

43. Great post and great thread, yurbud.

I like how you are really trying to communicate with the right here. if they aren't able to handle that, there's nothing more that you can do, and it's on them.

The poster is amazingly powerful.

[yurbud]

34. I hope this one doesn't offend freeper bush bungholes

They probably can't see how withholding aid from people in the superdome led to anyone's death either.

[fishwax]

25. Damn! That's a great graphic

:toast: to you

:grr: to :grr: Norquist :grr: and :grr: the :grr: rest :grr: of :grr: the :grr: whole :grr: band :grr: of :grr: evil-doers :grr:

[newswolf56]

26. Superb!

Should be posted on every blank outdoor wall in America. On billboards and barn roofs too.

[katinmn]

28. The only thing is, the government actually balloons under RePUKES

That is a powerful message, unfortunately it perpetuates the myth that CONservatives stand for small government.

The RePUKES have always created more government and bureaucracy. But then, they never let reality stop their wild tales.

[Jokinomx]

30. Very Powerful Pic....

Thanks for sharing....

This one will stay with me for awhile.... the one picture that I personally can say affected me like this one....

The naked Vietnamese girl running down the road crying. It captured the moment like no other.

"Campassionate Conservatism" captures the this current tragedy in the same manner.

[melody]

32. Distinctly disturbing and all the more important and effective because so

[gatorboy]

37. If these Neo-Cons hate the government so bad...

Then they should stop running for the fucking government jobs! :mad:

[yurbud]

39. strictly speaking, the aren't doing gov't jobs, they are working for...

private employers by pretending to work for the government.

Larry David would be a more compassionate president than Bush (both real Larry AND TV Larry).

[Catfight]

38. Mission Accomplished

[alfredo]

41. Bush Rhetoric Vs Reality

[yurbud]

44. ouch--use their own words until they scream for mercy

[alfredo]

46. Michael Moore did that

with great effect in F9-11.

[lateo]

45. Ouch.