Democratic legislator blasts Bush (Louisiana)

2theadvocate.com ^ | 11/23/05 | MARSHA SHULER

[Ellesu]

Democratic state Sen. Butch Gautreaux stepped on the STATE Senate floor Tuesday to deliver a rare partisan political speech blasting President Bush and the Republican Congress. Some Republican senators walked out as Gautreaux blasted their president repeatedly.

Gautreaux railed against Bush for "a botched war in Iraq," tax breaks for big business and the rich at the expense of poor and middle class, and a tendency to seek revenge on those who don't go along with him.

"I worry for Louisiana and I worry for this country," said Gautreaux, a Morgan City businessman.

Gautreaux said he fears Louisiana's post-hurricane needs are getting lost on the national level because of the controversy swirling around Bush.

Later, Sen. Max Malone, R-Shreveport, called Gautreaux's remarks "inappropriate."

"When he started blasting the president and blaming everything on Republicans, I said, 'I've leaving. I've had enough,' " Malone said in an interview.

In his years in the Senate, Malone said he couldn't recall anyone going on such a partisan attack. "Butch was just wrong," Malone said.

Gautreaux's remarks drew a smattering of applause from the unusually quiet Senate.

Gautreaux started and ended by praising Louisiana politicians' ability to work together, including taking steps to help with the state's hurricane recovery efforts.

"We have been working hard down here in Louisiana ever since the first hurricane hit. We worked hard in so many ways … to keep the recovery going," Gautreaux said. "I came to praise this body and our Legislature to hold up as an example of cooperation."

But Gautreaux said he's worried about the failure so far of the federal government to help and its propensity to blame Gov. Kathleen Blanco and others in Louisiana for hurricane-related problems.

"The future of this state depends on funding from Congress and President Bush like it or not. It's true," Gautreaux said.

"I am worried that Louisiana's needs will be lost in the debate over the botched war in Iraq. I am worried that our needs will be lost as the Bush administration makes sure that the very richest Americans get a tax cut," Gautreaux said.

He also said Bush is using "faith and religion to divide and polarize this nation."

[AZRepublican]

I wonder if Gautreaux woke up with Howeird Dean in his bed that morning?

[BushWonGore'sDone]

He's a little fish with big ambitions. A wannabe

[Coop]

But Gautreaux said he's worried about the failure so far of the federal government to help and its propensity to blame Gov. Kathleen Blanco and others in Louisiana for hurricane-related problems.

But apparently it's fine to send blame the other way.

Pathetic jerks. I really feel sorry for LA residents who apparently have such spineless, incompetent leadership.

[LaineyDee]

"We have been working hard down here in Louisiana ever since the first hurricane hit.

Riiiiiiiiight.

[Skooz]

"I worry for Louisiana and I worry for this country," said Gautreaux.......

As long as the ignorant masses keep electing idiots like you, so do I, Mr. Gautreaux .

[advance_copy]

“I’ve come to find I like liberals a lot more. They’re kind of cute when they’re cold, shivering and afraid.”

-- Ann Coulter

[exit82]

Malone should not have walked out. He should have stood up and verbally blasted this clown.

The lying and rhetoric by Democrats everywhere have risen to Marxist levels, without any foundation in fact or reason, and duly noted and trumpeted to the masses by the mainstream media. A lie said often enough becomes "fact".

The record needs to be set straight, courtesy be damned.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Have you noticed that since the 403-3 vote on Iraq the left there have been no polls?

It's not like they stop taking polls. The Democrats and their agents take polls 365 days a year. But when the polls are looking so bad for the Democrats that they can't even twist it to look bad for the Republicans, then they just don't release them.

But the polls are taken, and shown to the Democrat leadership, and they then crap a storm and get some grocery clerk like this Gautreaux idiot to go on the Senate floor and spout a bunch of bull in full craphead hysterics in a desperate bid at turning their sagging poll numbers around.

This Gautreaux fool to me, is a good sign that we are winning. :)

[mosquitobite]

Ahhh, so the Dems lost their fight against withdrawing from Iraq and now they must go back to the "failure" of Bush during and after Katrina. My GOSH they are SOOOOO predictable!

They are already in heavy campaign mode guys. I hope like hell the RNC is noticing...

[bronxboy]

Amazing the difference between the dim controlled LA and the Republican controlled MI. In MI they are doing for themselves, getting their economy back , with HELP, from the Feds. In LA, they look to the feds to do everything. I fear for this country if the dims come back in power.

[YOUGOTIT]

Dear Sen. Butch Gautreaux: What did you do with the hundreds of millions of dollars that was given to your state and the city of New Orleans for disaster preparedness? Where did the money that hard working Americans paid in taxes that was given to your state go? Who got the money? Did you build casinos (as I have read), or did you use the money to buy votes or build luxury office buildings?

I want an accounting of the funds that were given to you and your state by the American People.

[Iris7]

If you download from Yahoo Finance the historical interest rate data series of Treasury three month bills and thirty year bonds, then subtract the two, and graph the difference on a spreadsheet you will find a huge increase in Federal spending beginning on the same day Katrina hit Louisiana. I mean huge. A very dramatic change. We are talking real money here, two figure billions of dollars, maybe even three figures.

This function is yield spread and is a measure of change in liquidity, roughly of a measure of actual money supply changes.

Not set up to make the graph myself and post it, really should get an image account.

For the rest of us this spending will cause a liquidity increase requiring higher inflation and/or higher interest rates. No free lunch.

Louisiana has received a tremendous amount of money and wants a lot more. This is understandable, shucks, I would like to get a tremendous amount of money and then a lot more! However, the rest of us have to pay the bill. We already are starting to pay it.

[frankjr]

Hey Butch, pay for it yourself or move!

[newcthem]

Democratic legislator blasts Bush

And this is breaking news?

[HighlyOpinionated]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

[Senator_Blutarski]

Amazing the difference between the dim controlled LA and the Republican controlled MI.

Did you mean "MS" (Mississippi)?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Hey, guys, let Butch know exactly how you feel !

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Senator D. A. "Butch" Gautreaux - District 21

E-mail
lasen21@legis.state.la.us

Capitol Office
P.O. Box 94183
Baton Rouge, LA 70804
(225) 342-2040

District Office
1103 Eighth Street
Morgan City, LA 70380
(800) 562-3204

[Lady Heron]

MI is Michigan.

[TX Conservative]

Perhaps this is what's bothering Mr. Gautreaux:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524793/posts