Kiss of LA and win the rest of the country.

Sounds like a winna.  Of what, I dunno.

I truly believe Tancredo's only the first shot across the bow.  We're gonna see a whole hell of a lot more of this from the right, the meme that those who are still suffering in New Orleans are really all just a bunch of lazy welfare queens.

After two years, the argument will go, it's time to fish or cut bait for people "in that part of the world."  Surely after all this time "those people" can go out and just get jobs and houses and shit, right?  Look at the French Quarter, it's fine.

That's going to set up one hell of a paradigm for the GOP, where we can't abandon the Iraqis because of fears of "genocide" and that they will continue to require hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, but the people Bushco has fucked over in Nawlins -- Americans -- are just "too lazy to help themselves" so screw em.

Expect the rest of the wingers to grab that low hanging  poop and start flinging it with gusto.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

Ugh, and speaking of "GOP responses to disasters" what's Bush's big plan to settle the subprime market disaster?

Go on.  Guess.

If you said "tax cuts for the rich" then you win.

The president wants to work with Congress to temporarily suspend the tax liability that can take effect when borrowers lose their homes through short-sales, and when lenders forgive mortgage debt. That will enable borrowers to more easily rework their loans.

"I believe we need to change that code," said the president, "so people won't be penalized when they refinance their homes."

Yeah, cause the problem is tax liability, and people are immediately calling bullshit.

According to Dean Baker, an economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy, many of the Bush initiatives would leave unaffected many of those homeowners in the most serious trouble.

The suspension of tax liabilities would not mean much to low-income foreclosure victims, who don't pay much tax anyway. It could, on the other hand, help wealthier real estate investors who speculated on real estate during the boom.

"I don't see any reason at all to give those people a break," said Baker.

Nice, George.  Nice.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

Tancredo is fabulous. stop the bucks. let them pull themselves up by there own bootstraps. Did anyone asked that piece of shit what would happen if the guy he contracted with for rebuilding his failing foundation on his house said to him- " WELL, I DI WHAT I DID AND THATS IT. FROM HERE ON YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT EVER YOU FEEL IS NEEDED."
 The tragedy that is taking place in this country is monstrous and the world shakes as they witness this countrys' descent into oblivion.
 I cry for thye children. I really do.
     

Sure now that the taxpayer gravy train has supplied the usual loads of graft, corruption, waste, fraud and mismanagement, the good citizens of NOLA and the region should just get on with the rest of their pathetic lives...

Of course, if those people are in Iraq, the taxpayer 'gravy train' just keeps giving and giving.  (What its giving is another debate entirely.)

Why doesn't he give that speech in Iraq?

Don't tread on me