Posted on 09/02/2005 8:39:44 PM PDT by jmc1969
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert began his day yesterday explaining that he really does not want to see New Orleans bulldozed, and he ended it defending his absence from the Capitol when Congress approved a $10.5 billion hurricane aid package. In between, a former president hinted he would like to throttle the Illinois Republican.
Hastert was still reeling from reaction to his comments earlier this week about the storm-ravaged city. "It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed," he said in an interview with the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill. Asked whether it made sense to spend billions of dollars rebuilding a city that lies below sea level, he told the paper, "I don't know. That doesn't make sense to me."
In Syracuse, N.Y., former president Bill Clinton was discussing New Orleans's dilemma when someone described the speaker's comments. Had they been in the same place when the remarks were made, Clinton said, "I'm afraid I would have assaulted him."
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I'm sorry to hear he is taking back his remarks... I was glad he had the courage to say what he said. I don't have a problem with private capital funding a rebuild of the city in place, but no federal funds should go to rebuild it in its current location.
Bill Clintoon is a worthless piece of ----, not worthy of breathing the same air as any Republican, much less the air breathed by true Conservatives. Why that draft-dodging, wife cheating, commie traitor son of a b*tch isn't locked away in a deep dark dungeon somewhere is completely beyond me. How DARE he speak so insultingly of a REAL American. If you think about it, Clintoon basicly said that he would deprive Hastert of his constitutional right to free speech by physically assaulting him. Very telling indeed. Why am I not surprised?? Who in this country is more violent than a liberal?? One only needs to look at any "peace" march in San Fransicko, or look at moveon.org, to see their true nature.
This is what is in store for America if ANY demonRAT is elected to ANY office ANYwhere in the USA at ANY time in the future. Why do these traitors even exist?? The blue state portion of this country, with Clintoon as it's figurehead, disgusts me. And the most galling part of it is that there is nothing that can be done about it. What a bunch of sick perverts!!
The Jessie Jackson/Al Sharpton brigades should be ashamed of themselves, with their brain-dead, mindless attacks on the President. But they are enjoying the limelight WAY too much nowadays to even begin to feel THAT way. They don't realize that they are the "useful idiots of the week" for Soros and his merry band of atheist marxists. Last week it was Cindy Sheehan, but now she'll be abandoned like yesterday's trash (which is exactly what she is), in favor of their newest tool - the Rainbow Coalition and their fellow travellers. The left makes me physically ill. Just when you thought they couldn't sink and lower, or be become any more evil....
Ok, I feel much better now. Time for another glass of wine!!
Actually, that aqua-colored head has the greatest mind of them all!
I was shocked to see a genuinely sensible position, honestly stated, coming from a US Senator.
It's a relief to see him retract it - now we know things are back to normal in DC.
Great. The prelude to the Republican Party vote-buying scheme of '06: $200 Billion of tax dollars to put NO right back where it was.
Remember, these free-spending fools couldn't even work up the balls to kill PBS.
>> Hastert is a fat-mouth jerk. He needs to be censured and forced to surrender his seat as Speaker.
Hastert should never apologize for his remarks. Rebuilding New Orleans, in the same place it currently exists, would be the worst decision in a long history of bad decisions made to protect New Orleans from the sea.
"Clinton said, "I'm afraid I would have assaulted him."
What, a grope? Maybe digital penetration? Rape with a foreign object? What's he talking about here?
I think Hastert is right, but it probably isn't the best time to be making public comments like that.
Fudgepacker.
I think a little compassion is in order and appropriateness. Hastert apparently is a political baffoon, with no sense of civility for the misery this people suffer.
More simply put--he's a fat jerk.
He should resign for being a dumbass.
Whatever, putz.
Nonsense, he is right, and the Feds had better not rebuild that deathtrap.
Where do you get that taxpayers will rebuild this. I think private investment will make that determination.
In my opinion, Hastert is a jerk for being insensitive.
Hope it's on Pay per View.
20 billion? You are looking at a half trillion or more.
Please Dennis Hastert, force a study to be done on the feasibility of rebuilding the city or not. That is the proper, intelligent and even common sense course of action.
Anybody who says "we will rebuild at any cost" is a moron and not worthy of being an elected official. Any elected official should say we "need to do an assessment first."
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