Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) on C-SPAN says the people in NO knew

[texpatriot2004]

that they were living below sea level and that if the "containers" broke they would be in trouble. Says the administration is doing everything it can to get the people out of there. Says that its a natural disaster and nobody is to blame.

I think we should write, call and email Sen. Hatch to set him straight.

[Bluebear]

1. He says nobody is to blame, yet blames the victims

How very Republican

[LiviaOlivia]

29. He's not even a good Mormon(Closet queen)

read up on Senator Frank Moss, a Dem and a Mormon, who helped get Medicare passed. Yes there are Mormons who believe in Roosevelt's dream.
I am from a long of Mormon Dems. My grandmother, like many grandmothers, had pictures FDR, JFK and Jesus on her bedroom wall.

So fuck you all who think Mormons are sub-human.

IMO-Hatch is a corporate whore-thru and thru. Religion has nothing to do with it. He's just like the rest of the GOP whore house.

[longship]

2. Fscking jerk

n/t

[KingFlorez]

3. What happened before is not

What the people are angry at the Federal Government fot their response to the disaster. 3 days with no help for the people is not right.

[sickinohio]

7. I thought it was five days

with no help. Am I wrong?

:shrug:

[Cha]

4. orrin hatch is out of touch

toad stool..I doubt if he would be saying anything different if he were a senator from Louisianna.

[XanaDUer]

5. "Let's not play the blame game!"

I thought that was the latest meme from the RW?

[Zenlitened]

6. Really? Is he aware that Bush's FEMA director is saying...

... no one could reasonably have foreseen this?

So... Joe and Jane Workingstiff should have known it was coming. High-paid political appointees who's job it is to plan for this stuff... no way of knowing.

Yah. Got it. :crazy:

[brentspeak]

8. "Even though it's the victims fault they knew this could happen...

"...we don't want to play the blame game. Now, what was your second question?"

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Tell Mr. Hatch to wrap his frigging brain around this gd number.

For FLORIDA FLOOD CONTROL and environmental recovery.......


$8,000,000,000

[SledDriver]

10. The hurricane was a natural disaster...

The Federal Government is to blame for cutting funding to maintain the levees in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy, appointing a * cronie to head FEMA, sending the NG troops to Iraq, and for their subsequent delay of response in the aftermath!

The hurricane was a natural disaster, the aftermath was a man-made disaster!

That of course is not to mention further torturing the survivors by making them wait 5 days so * could come riding in like some wannabe cowboy savior hero with the "cavalry" bringing food and water for a photo op.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Hatch is ALL heart -- Bet he will write a song about this disaster

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Orrin, their only mistake was in trusting a Republican controlled govt.

[liveoaktx]

13. Talking points are out in full force

[are_we_united_yet]

14. Orrin Hatch

Yeah, I respect his opinion.

:eyes:

[punpirate]

15. Only one word to describe Hatch...

... cocksucker. :grr:

[OneTwentyoNine]

16. As usual...Orrin,SHUT your hatch... n/t

[MichiganVote]

17. Failure to respond to people in need is not a "natural" disaster

That was a disaster of design. And not intelligent design.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. The Netherlands is below sea level, too. Should they move, as well?

Or will those silly people continue to live in their "container," as they have for hundreds of years? BTW, they have an extremely sophisticated, state of the art flood control system. NO, on the other hand, has had to rely on an old-fashioned system that hasn't been updated for years BECAUSE THERE WASN'T ANY MONEY FOR FLOOD CONTROL. Senator Hatch needs to get his wrinkly old ass to the Netherlands to see what can be done by a government that actually has a civilized approach to protecting its citizens.

[Totally Committed]

19. What thes a-holes are not getting is this:

Even if you know you are living below sea-level, if you are too poor to leave, what the hell can you do? Were they offered re-location packages? No.

When you are told to evacuate, and you have no car, no money or are too sick, and staying is your only option, the governemnt whould have a system to get you out. You just don't say to a poor person "It's time to go. Get out." You take them out!

Someone said it on another thread, and it is true. This is not only racial, this is class warfare. The RW doesn't understand poverty so dire that there are NO OPTIONS to you. Kanye West was right! They don't like Black people. All the racist blaming of the victim here has been sickening.

"They have a welfare mindset, so the feel the government should do everything for them." BULLSHIT! This is poverty so dire, so awful, the governement either takes you or you drown. We just saw a week of it. "We told them to evacuate, but they chose not to go." CHOSE??? These people are crazy! If you say to someone you could die if you stay, and they stay, it's often NOT because they CHOSE to. Poverty makes that choice for them. Where the hell would they go? Who would take them in?

AAaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TC

[JaneQPublic]

20. By the same logic: the workers in the Twin Towers knew...

...their buildings were targeted by terrorists. Hell, they had already been bombed once before. They should have known better. :sarcasm:

[underpants]

21. So, they don't deserve to be helped, rescued?

Social Darwinism, sounds like to me.

[Olney Blue]

22. He's a nutcake.

(word he used to describe war protestors during *'s SLC visit)


:P

[HuskerDU]

23. Their think tanks could work on this one forever and they will

never be able to justify the fact that there wasn't supplies raining from the sky as soon as the storm hit, or that there wasn't a fleet of 'copters rescuing people night and day until everyone was safe.

No amount of spin can EVER justify it.

[spooky3]

24. Those people should have flown their private planes

to their 2nd homes on Martha's Vineyard, and quit their NO jobs, too. Then they should have sold their NO homes to somebody at a nice profit.

Yeah.

Meanwhile everyone in every other big city should move because we know we're potential targets of terrorists, people in California should move because of earthquakes, people in FL should move because of future hurricane risks, etc. We should all move somewhere where bad things never happen.

[gokar]

25. The GOP talking points: NO spent money on superdome instead

of fixing the levies.

[MojoXN]

26. Well, Fuck You Orrin!

I'd like to throw your ass into the Superdome for five days of hell. See how you like it then you smug, heartless prick.

MojoXN

[0007]

27. This guy is a complete nitwit

How can one keep from being affected from a strong feeling of moral aversions by people like Orin Hatch?

[chomskysright]

28. THEY HAD NO GODDAM WAY TO GET OUTTA TOWN...

[BootinUp]

30. How can you set such an asshole straight.

Might be better to write to your local newspaper and try to get printed.

[iamjoy]

31. And When The Big One Hits California

Will he say those people knew they were living along a fault line?

I just love how all the elected officials from states that have no natural disasters say crap like this.

[Cocoa]

32. then they're more qualified than Chertoff and Brown

neither of whom apparently knew shit.