Remember Barbara Bush's words during her visit to the Astrodome, where Katrina evacuees were housed?
From the New York Times:
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."
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White House officials did not respond on Tuesday to calls for comment on Mrs. Bush's remarks.
I have a friend who, ever since that moment in time, calls her Babs The Impaler.
ReplyDeleteAwful. Truly awful.
Since that moment, we can truly despise ALL the Bushes.
ReplyDeleteI know... a revelation of the "nice" Mrs. Bush's real self.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'd say sleeping on a cot on the floor of the Astrodome, with no privacy, works really well.
ReplyDeleteAnd how scary to think they might decide to stay in Houston!
I have seldom been so horrified and amazed as when I first read this statement from BB. It explains a lot, I suppose...
ReplyDeleteYes, and the really scary part for Barbara was that my might register to vote in Houston.
ReplyDeleteYes. And they might vote!
ReplyDeleteThere have been a few things slipping into print lately about Barbara Bush in "lady dog" mode. This one is way up there. My personal favorite Republican First Lady quote continues to be Nancy Reagan, speaking by telephone to her husband from the podium of a Chicago fund-raiser during the 1980 campaign, wishing he could be there with her to see "all these beautiful white people". They never did come up with much of an explanation on that one.
ReplyDeleteOn your question on Mark Harris's site re "play the man" - in the sense in which Latimer used it to Ridley, the phrase simply means "be brave". I posted a reply over there (rudeness attached - can't have you getting too complacent during your two-week holiday), but it takes all day and more, for two-way communication on these "monitored" sites, so it's here as well - so much haster.
Lapin, thanks. Goran answered, too. Did you see how I got my text-proofing all mixed up? I don't get a lot of practice hurling Bible verses back and forth. But Anne Kennedy had one of her texts wrong, too.
ReplyDeleteI was sort of spoofing, trying to get a rise out of her, but she appears to have moved on.
You can't have fast give and take on the sites that are monitored, but I understand why bloggers think they must do it. I have been blessed in the comments here. You and Johnieb are the worst I get.
I'll probably come to regret saying that, because the uglies may rush in.
Thank God that she is my 10th cousin once removed [or is it 1st cousin 10 times removed ;)]. A little closer on the other side of the family but I'm not going there. All I know is that it makes George W. an even more distant cousin. I've never been so thankful that my branch of the family was disowned 3 generations ago.
ReplyDeleteLove and Prayers,
Ann Marie
Well, I guess we can safely say that the apple does not fall far from the tree.
ReplyDeleteIt was a well-known "secret" in Washington that Barbara Bush was a grade-A asshat. (Now that I have a dog, and his mother was a TRUE, and lovely, "bitch", I'm reluctant to use the term anymore to describe an unpleasant woman...)
And I just realized I used two ugly words in one comment. Mimi, please don't ban me! :-(
ReplyDeleteAnne Marie, my sympathies. At least your family can claim, with pride, the honor of being disowned by the First Family.
ReplyDeleteDoxy, I won't ban you. I won't even delete you, but I may have to include you on my list of the worst, along with Lapin and Johnieb.
I'm not exactly squeaky clean myself.
I would be proud to be on the list with LB and JB. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd you know, Mimi, women are the only group that becomes more radical with age. I happen to believe that "squeaky clean" is a highly overrated "virtue." But then, I would say that, wouldn't I?
For your sins, Doxy, when you need a little light relief, Google-image one of your two words, "asshat". Oh, and make sure that the filter is "off".
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who committed the faux pas of asking the senior Bushes, who had strolled into the antique shop where she then worked, and were seven years into his vice-presidency, where they were from. When he replied "Washington", she asked "Washington State?" They left. You would think that the Secret Service detail might have tipped her off, but no. That night, as the Bushes appeared on local TV news, she called to her husband and told him that this was the couple she had told him about earlier in the evening (there were further details, including jerking the stock book, which he had no business reading, out of his hands). She still had no clue who they were until her husband explained. She spend the next couple of weeks in dread that her boss would hear the visit and fire her!
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