Help! Need exact (tasteless) Hurricane KATRINA quotes

[Nikki Stone 1]

I have a friend who doesn't believe me when I tell her what Barbara Bush (and the rest of the family) said about Hurricane Katrina. I am trying to find the exact quotes and links to prove my point. The quotes I am trying to find are:

Barbara Bush: the "lucky Hurricane victims"
George Bush "the people on their roofs" weren't anti Bush
Laura Bush: Hurricane Karina?
Junior Bush: "What went wrong?" (And anything else)

Also, the non-Bush quotes about

*Katrina "solving the public housing problem in NOLA"

The Hurricane looking like an inverted fetus

Katrina as God's punishment to the gays

the "Soddom and Gomorrah" quote


And anything along these lines said by a REAL person with a REAL link.

Thanks in advance!

[Fridays Child]

1. From Editor & Publisher

Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston."

Then she added: "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054719

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. Thanks! I was looking for this one in particular

:)

[Cassandra]

2. Brown said during the hearing...

that he didn't need to supply ice to people to cool down their Diet Cokes and beer. Rep. Taylor pointed out that ice is needed to cool down bodies; dead ones to keep them from decomposing and live ones to keep them from dying. That's something Brown should have known as part of his job.
I don't have the time to chase down the link to the transcript.

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. I can't believe he actually said this

If you run across the link, please let me know!

[Cassandra]

6. Franken replayed the clip from the hearing on his show.

Brown's tone was quite arrogant and defensive; that of a very small man in a job that's much too big for him.

[demo dutch]

12. This is a transcript

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/national/nationalspecial/27text-brown.html?pagewanted=all

Another incredible quote is the suggestion that Blanco left our Orleans parish:
BUYER: I would like to ask some questions about the pre- landfall. So I'd like to know why did the president's federal emergency assistance declaration of August 27th not include the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines?

BROWN: Under the law, the governor makes the request for the declaration and the governors of the states specify what areas, what counties they want included in that declaration.

And, based upon the governor's request, that's the recommendation that we make to the president. So if a governor does not request a particular county or a particular parish, that's not included in the request.

BUYER: All right.

Orleans Parish is New Orleans. I was listening to my colleague, Mr. Jefferson's, questions about when they talked about, you know, they asked for this assistance for three days and then president responded the very next day, not the day that it was made -- the request -- but the governor of Louisiana actually excluded New Orleans from the president's federal emergency assistance declaration?

BROWN: Again, Congressman, we looked at the request. The governors make the request by...

..of course we al know that Blanco's request included ALL the parishes!

[Cassandra]

14. Thanks for the link. Here's the really disgusting section:

"And look, ice trucks have gone -- headed to New Orleans, ended up in Maine, everywhere but New Orleans.

So, I mean, that's been a terrible problem.

We already talked about the communication issues and how that all went down.

BROWN: Can I address ice before you move on, do you mind?

JEFFERSON: Go ahead.

BROWN: I just want to state publicly that ice was one of those commodities that I feebly attempted to get FEMA out of the business of ice, because ice was originally intended to be only a life-saving commodity for baby formula, medications for hospitals and that sort of thing. And ice is one of those commodities that the demand for has just grown and grown and grown.

And so while I have tried to limit something, I failed miserably in that regard.

(UNKNOWN): Would the gentleman yield?

BROWN: Everybody wants ice.

JEFFERSON: Yes, I yield.

(UNKNOWN): Because I think this is really interesting, Mr. Brown.

Have you ever been through a hurricane?

BROWN: No, but I've been through disasters where I haven't had power for a long time and I know that the refrigerators go on the blink and food spoils, et cetera. But I don't think that's a federal government responsibility to provide ice to keep my hamburger meat in my freezer or refrigerator fresh.

(UNKNOWN): Well, if it goes bad and, as you said, people should -- you first said just a little while ago, people should be prepared to feed themselves for two or three days...

BROWN: With nonperishable...

(UNKNOWN): ... if I may.

So now you're saying, OK, they're trying to feed themselves for two or three days. We have a low-cost alternative to feeding them; we should just give them a couple bags of ice to keep that stuff from going rotten.

BROWN: No, because they can't cook it.

(UNKNOWN): Now you're saying you shouldn't do that.

But let me follow up.

What else do they do with the ice, Mr. Brown?

BROWN: Pardon?

(UNKNOWN): What else do they do with the ice?

BROWN: I assume...

(UNKNOWN): Because I think we have a serious disconnect and I think I'm really beginning to realize why you were removed from this job.

What else was that ice used for?

BROWN: Ice should be used for life saving, to keep baby formula fresh and for medications. And I think that's what it should be used for.

(UNKNOWN): How about keeping the dead corpses from rotting in the...

BROWN: Because you can't use it to keep...

(UNKNOWN): ... sun?

BROWN: ... hamburger meat because you can't cook the hamburger meat. That's why we say, have provisions for two or three days of nonperishable items.

And I think it's wrong for the federal government to be in the ice business, providing ice so I can keep my beer and Diet Coke cool.

(UNKNOWN): How about the need to keep bodies from rotting in the sun?

Had you visited Hancock County, which you didn't, you would have met a gentleman named Edmund Faise (ph). He was given the grisly task of trying to preserve the bodies. They were stacked up at his local mortuary. He had no power. And he literally came to me, tears in his eyes and said, You have got to find me a freezer truck because these bodies are rotting in my driveway.

BROWN: And we had refridge (ph) trucks available throughout the region to store...

(UNKNOWN): Two days later.

BROWN: ... bodies.

(UNKNOWN): Two days later, sir.

Again, Mr. Brown, the more I listen to you, I'm thinking you're probably a great attorney, but you were way over your head in your capacity at FEMA.

JEFFERSON: I reclaim my time for a moment here.

The ice is also used not for the dead, but to keep people from dying. In nursing homes, one of the major reasons that old people just suffered and died is because there was no ice, there was no way for them to refresh themselves and the heat was suffocating.

It's awfully hot down there, as you know, and it just wasn't there. And for other people who are out of the sun all day, the Superdome was hot (inaudible) people came outside, and it was still hot there.

Absolute critical need for people to stay alive as much as it was for anything else. And so it wasn't a luxury to preserve hamburger meat. It was really a necessity to preserve life."

Brown's crappy response reminds me of a quote in "Ball Four". The supply guy for the Yankees was asked why he didn't buy enough orange juice. He said "If I bought more you guys would just drink it up anyway." Some people are just too stupid to live.

[demo dutch]

15. I think the "unknown" was Taylor, another quote is the suggestion that

Blanco left out Orleans parish in her declarations!

[demo dutch]

13. self delete

[Fridays Child]

5. Was this from the House panel, on Monday?

[demo dutch]

16. Yes see post 12 for the transcript

[dback]

7. The quote's in Latest Breaking News: Politics

The whole thing about "I don't think the government should be in the ice business."

[gatorboy]

8. Here's a nice list of the top 25 stupid quotes about Katrina

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/currentevents/a/katrinaquotes.htm

25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath

Top Ten:

1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." –President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

2) "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005

3) "We've got a lot of rebuilding to do ...
The good news is — and it's hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house — he's lost his entire house — there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter) —President Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

4) "Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005

5) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." –President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005

6) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" –House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005

7) "Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.' Because if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, blaming media coverage for the government's failings, "Meet the Press," Sept. 4, 2005

8) "What didn't go right?'" –President Bush, as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), after she urged him to fire FEMA Director Michael Brown "because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right" in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort

9) "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving." –Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Sept. 6, 2005

10) "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals...many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold." –CNN's Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans' hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005

[imperialismispasse]

11. Oh my god the Delay one is unbelievable.

"Oh yes sir we thought that watching our parents and little sister drown, our house get destroyed, and being ripped from the arms of our grandparents and helicoptered to another state to be put into a shelter with strangers was really fun!" Fucking asshole. Hope he likes jail.

[imperialismispasse]

9. "Your doing a great job Brownie"

[nomaco-10]

10. Paraphrasing Tweety....

I hope they build New Orleans back. 'It's such a great city, a cross between funland and a third world country'.

[SillyGoose]

17. Alabama Sen says storms are punishment from God...

originally posted here by quaoar:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1811673

THOMAS SPENCER
News staff writer

Hurricane Katrina and other storms that battered the Gulf Coast were God's judgment of sin, according to state Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo.

"New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness," Erwin wrote this week in a column he distributes to news outlets. "It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God."

< snip >

"Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why were we surprised when finally the hand of judgment fell?" Erwin wrote. "Sadly, innocents suffered along with the guilty. Sin always brings suffering to good people as well as the bad."
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/112790008991370.xml&coll=2

[myrna minx]

18. Tom Delay: This is kinda fun.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/DeLay_to_evacuees_Is_this_kind_of_f_0909.html

A report on the Houston Chronicle blog by Chronicle reporter Purva Patel reveals that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay asked Hurricane Katrina evacuees if their current situation was "kind of fun," RAW STORY has found. Excerpts follow.

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[Nikki Stone 1]

20. I forgot Delay's involvement!

...

[myrna minx]

19. Trying to comb the dead to find someone to fit the estate tax profile.

Since we don't have the search function right now, I can't find it. Perhaps someone has this bookmarked.