Republicans have showed no emotion over Katrina

[KingFlorez]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen any Republicans show any emotion about Katrina. Sen. Landrieu, Gov. Blanco, Mayor Nagin and Parish President Broussard have all cried at least once and some even made fun of them for it. Shrub Co. doesn't even seem shaken by the tragedy.

[teach1st]

1. They have emotions about this. They're just suppressing.

If it wasn't for the negative political fallout, they would be expressing their emotions more: mirth and glee.

[Erika]

7. If it wasn't for the negative fallout, W wouldn't have come a 2nd time

His fly-over would have satisfied him.

When the world saw our poor, mostly black, W all of a sudden had "passion and compassion".

[tblue37]

13. Well, McCain chuckled when he joked that no

Arabian horses were lost during Katrina.

And Barbara Bush said she was scared all those poor Black folks might decide to stay in Houston. Fear is an emotion, isn't it?

[On Par]

2. 63% Of ALL Americans Have Donated...

...to one organization or another. I would bet the vast majority of those who didn't donate are Republicans!

[marbuc]

6. You mean the "I gave on April 15th" crowd? eom

I would guess that you are correct.

[despairing optimist]

3. They sure have, only the wrong ones: fear, anxiety

Fear and anxiety that they're about to lose it all, that the game is finally over, that the public is waking up and the press is no longer afraid of being labeled as liberal and biased against them, and that they're about to lose power in a big way across the land--from dog catcher to the White House.

And maybe they're angry at everyone but themselves of course for being so stupid as to support the lowest of the low for the highest offices of the land.

I'd smile and celebrate but I don't do those well with so many tears in my eyes.

[Inland]

15. Revulsion at victims. Is revulsion an emotion? nt

[randr]

4. They are holding back the

grins.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Their Emotion Is Hatred Of The "Victims"

Their emotion asks why didn't these people leave the city? Why didn't Nagin do this and Blanco do that? Why did FEMA let commander bunnypants down? Why does the media exagerate all those starving and dead people on my TV? When will the casinos in Biloxi open again? Where's my chunk of that $200 billion?

Turn on right wing hate radio...there's plenty of emotion there for ya.

[Erika]

9. and a way to privatize the future NO to add $ to the "haves"

They want to use this as an opportunities to dismantle public education.

Can you imagine a private "for-profit" education system handling the needs of foreign speaking immigrants, illegal aliens, the poor, the hungry, and the disadvantaged child? Yeah, they'll do it with heavy subsidies of our taxes, and with no better results.

Private education can choose to reject students. Public education cannot.

[KharmaTrain]

14. I Don't Think It'll Be That "White Village"

Gentrified? Yes. But this is a town that thrives on two very labor-intensive industries to be economically proserous...shipping and tourism. Both aren't the type of jobs that attract too many whites. They're not gonna bus the tables or load the barges. Also with Davis-Bacon in a permanent "temporary" situation, will whites want to work in a city with limited services and making less than the prevailing wage?

I suspect there'll be a lot of New Orleans blacks who will return...but I suspect we'll also see a lot of Hipanics...who were already moving in on the area...that will be a ready source for the cheap labor the large companies and contractors are gonna be looking for.

[philb]

8. Repub. Legislator: God cleaned up the public housing problem for us

Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton Rouge, is overheard telling lobbyists: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." http://www.populist.com/index.html#bridge0909

[Erika]

10. Condescending heartless elitist.

I hope 2006 gets rid of a lot of these mean-spirited elitists.

[MazeRat7]

11. Republicans have no emotions... unless....

You are messing with god, guns, babies, or their view of morality...

Death from a hurrican...."ahhhh... to bad."

MZr7

[raptor_rider]

12. I do not know

about that statement. The owner of the store that I work in is a staunch repub and so is the major distributor of the company. She donated alone over $25,000 out of her personal account and with the distributor, they donated the highest that the company would match and that was $50,000 (we are a small business out in the desert.) And this company is world wide. She does think that bush* did lack with the efforts with the help in NOand has confessed that she does not go with his decisions. However she still remains a repub. It is bush*, not the majority of the repubs in MY area, that are being like bush*.

[freeplessinseattle]

19. the poster didn't say "all", s/he said most

broad studies of non-profits have shown that Dems tend to donate more, and that the more people make, the less they donate. I heard this confirmed from someone I know who worked at United Way.
Of course not all repubs are stingy, just like not all dems are generous. there are always exceptions.

[belle]

16. Well, sure. Sympathy and grief are for pussies.

Since they can't find any terrorists to work up righteous rage over, they don't really know how to react. Anger is the only strong emotion that's O.K., see. Anyway, if you start empathizing with poor black people, you might start having to give them MONEY, or even having to LIVE NEAR THEM, and worst of all, you'd be acknowledging that they're NOT THAT DIFFERENT FROM YOU, except perhaps less fortunate. Which means there's nothing special about YOU. Which is intolerable.

[leftofthedial]

17. they have no empathy

that's why they're repukes

[OneBlueSky]

18. openly expressing glee at a time like this would be unseemly . . . n/t

.

[tanyev]

20. Georgie and Laura were very emotional

when they stood by Rehnquist's casket. In the hurricane ravaged areas? Not so much. (Unless you count George "comforting" those two South African girls at the Mississippi photo-op.)

[markus]

21. You must not listen to much AM Talk Radio

There was plenty of emotion, and all of it negative, blaming the victims for their own stupidity and their corrupt local officials. "This could never happen here", etc.

[Brewman_Jax]

22. They showed plenty of emotion...

regret that the hurricane didn't kill all of "those people."