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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:12 AM
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Some Republicans Have NO Shame-NONE...
Edited on Thu Jan-14-10 10:13 AM by kpete
It seems several Florida Republican Candidates issued a press release extolling their efforts to provide relief to Haiti. Pretty standard stuff, I expect, considering how the Haitian community in Florida is a not insignificant voting bloc. If those Republican candidates for office want to publicize their efforts to obtain humanitarian relief for the devastated populace of Haiti, fine by me.

No, what I found execrable, especially in light of the massive aid effort to which have President Obama and his administration committed the United States and have already begun to implement, was this little preamble the people at Annuit Coeptis chose as a lead in to their re-publication of those candidates press release:

This shows how Republicans are once again the party of action and compassion, while the Democrats are the party of wanton neglect and disregard. Aside from the on-the-spot effort planned and coordinated last night by Bernard, Tom and myself, the only three congressmen to express concern were our three Republican members from Miami. This should demonstrate how Democrats once again pander to and use minorities to further their ends and throw them under the bus in the time of need. The D now stands for Desolate Destruction while the R stands for Repair, Renew and Reinvigorate.


These people really have no shame, do they? They will take any issue, even a humanitarian tragedy that clearly should have not become a political football and attempt to turn it to their advantage. If Obama promises all the aid and resources of the US Government to help Haiti recover from this catastrophe then, according to Limbaugh, he is doing it merely to garner favor with "light and dark skinned" African Americans.

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Just for your edification, here's the video of the press briefing at the Department of State yesterday at which various agencies of the Federal Government gave to the US press, yesterday:

VIDEO:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/1/14/83843/9451
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8IPIggaDlM&feature=player_embedded

Not only a demonstration of compassion, but also of competence. Compare and contrast that response to how the Bush administration responded to the damage done to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina. Yeah, that was a real demonstration of compassion by a Republican administration wasn't it?

Enough said.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/1/14/83843/9451
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:46 AM
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1. what is really sad isn't the rank and fetid opportunism of those people, but the fact that there are
people in their districts who will swallow that bs without question.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:50 AM
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2. DESPICABLE. Since when is compassion a campaign issue. Oh, wait, it's the RRRepublicans.
Which, unfortunately, means it makes sense.

Let me add

VILE.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 11:28 AM
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3. Crist's numbers must be rising..Can't stand Rubio. Go Charlie...n/t
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