Newt Gingrich goes off the deep end

[docwebster]

"How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane." (emphasis mine)

Comments, anybody? I'm just at a total loss for words, here.

Comments

[idiomagic.livejournal.com]

Makes me want to kill.
I've stopped reading any news regarding Katrina...it puts me in danger of bursting a blood vessel and/or grabbing a copy of Catcher in the Rye and a high powered rifle then finding a bell tower.
Y'know, I'm plenty educated and uber-prepared for anything, but the lack of a car, credit cards, and a place to go made it kind of difficult to evacuate.
And how about the failure of citizenship that caused groups of us to clear the streets, set up a mash unit, bring food water and meds to those who needed it, and wander the neighborhoods armed in order to protect each other. Bad citizens, indeed. I guess we should have starved/died of thirst/been shot by crackheads while waiting for our government to step in, instead.
ARRRRRRGH!
Bunnies, fluffy clouds, kittens. Okay, I feel better now.
I swear that if another Republican gets elected I'm going to emigrate.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

The man is incapable of basic human decency.

I've said it before, I'll say it again- being poor is not a character flaw.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

"The failure of citizenship".

I have despised Newt-Boy for a long time. But I've been grinding my teeth over this, and I just want him stuck in the Ninth Ward on subsistence income, blocked roadways, inadequate infrastructure, and a government not doing anything to help. Standing on his head would be good.

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

This is the same noise all the privileged conservatives have been making since Katrina made landfall: If you poor people weren't so lazy and stupid, you would have gone to Yale, gotten into Phi Beta Kappa, landed a good management job, and been able to afford your own car to drive out of New Orleans. Instead, you decided to stay behind and loot. From the point of view of every standard-issue pseudo-libertarian snot, Newt didn't say anything surprising at all.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Predictable, and totaly representative of the conservative movement.

[bfly.livejournal.com]

Let's face it. A certain percentage of the "haves" in this country are so accustomed to power and privilege that they are literally incapable of understanding what it's like to be a "have not." Unfortunately, most of our current leadership falls in that percentage.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

the fuck?!

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Ya know, for country that's supposedly a republic, your aristocracy sure are a rotten bunch of sonovabitches!

Blaming the victims even... man, that's low even for a scummy, low-life, dick chaney-sucking, slimeball, neo-aristo.

[moropus.livejournal.com]

How many poor people could have been evacuated on the thousands of school and city buses that were allowed to sit there and pollute the gulf and kill all the little fishes? The buses that were ruined and a complete write off, those busses.