Gary Farber notes that millions of right-wingers have had there hopes dashed with the news that Jane Fonda is cancelling her bus tour.
Damn!
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Miller
The Republicans have lost their best fund-raiser of the past 40 years.
ppGaz
Glad to see that we continue to stay focussed on what’s important around here.
Demdude
Thank God we saved all that vegatable oil. Paul Newman says “Thanks”.
Paul L.
ppGaz Says:
Glad to see that we continue to stay focussed on what’s important around here.
If you do not like what John posts about. Start your own Blog.
Vlad
God, a clown act like that was the last thing the world needed.
capelza
I just know there is a good snark in there, I’m just not up to it today…someone else see the potential?
ppGaz
Really? So the comments are only for people who “like what John posts?”
Then I’d like to hear that from him, officially, asshole.
Paul L.
You are allowed to comment on his choice of topics and I am allowed to comment that your comment would have more weight if you had a blog too. Being a expert on what is important/interesting along with your rapier wit, I am sure your blog would be a wonderful read.
Back to the topic:
Cheer up Rightwingers. There is still hope with the Victor Davis Hanson and Arianna Huffington Debate.
DougJ
Colie, you are doing a heck of a job.
Krista
Yeah…the whole Jane Fonda thing. I lean left on most things, right on others (we wacky Canadians), but if she’s trying to help the anti-war cause, the best thing she can do is keep her mouth shut. Even if she does have a legitimate point to make, her past impulsiveness has lost her any and all future credibility.
Stormy70
I am devastated. All that future snark, thwarted. Damn.
Vlad
“…someone else see the potential?”
Is it possible to fill a vacuum with another vacuum?
demimondian
I know. I was so looking forward to long pointless debates between Darrell and some poor, earnest lefty, particularly as they degenerated into name-calling sessions. I keep hoping that someone will teach me some new invective, if only to permit me to maintain the illusion that I am not some kind of roue.
So far, I’ve been disappointed, however. Evidently, cynicism and bigotry give rise to better prose than idealism and open-hearted-ness.
Well, at least it explains Faux News.
Krista
Maybe so. Or you could try the combo of cynicism and open- heartedness, with a soupçon of irreverence thrown in for flavour.
Works for me, anyway. :)
PR
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, Kawana Lloyd or Alex Howe, 202-822-5200, all for Moveon.Org Political Action
News Advisory:
— Katrina Evacuees to Tell President Bush His Administration Let Them Down
— Request Meeting with President to Demand Accountability
— Why Was Federal Funding Cut For Levee Maintenance?
Hurricane Katrina evacuees flew into the nation’s capital to tell President Bush to stop blaming local officials for his mistakes and acknowledge that budget cuts and indifference by his administration led to the disaster in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
They intend to ask him why he diverted over 40 percent of federal funding between 2001-2005 away from New Orleans. Hundreds are expected to rally in front of the White House at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday.
“The President of the United States and his appointees let us down,” said Christine Mayfield, a New Orleans public school teacher and mother of three who was dislocated and now is staying in North Carolina.
The evacuees are also seeking a meeting with Rep. Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the Government Oversight Committee.
According to Rep. Waxman, “the budget of the Corps of Engineers for construction projects in New Orleans district was cut by over 40 percent between 2001 and 2005, apparently to free up funds for the war in Iraq and homeland security projects. In 2004, for the first time in 37 years, the Corps halted all work on the New Orleans levee system.”
New Orleans native Michelle Augillard, one of the evacuees, was working toward her Masters degree at the University of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, she is staying with a friend in Houston, trying to pick up the pieces of her life, along with her family. Both Michelle and Christine will appear at the rally.
“It is inhumane to have treated citizens of the United States like we were treated,” she said. ”
Members of MoveOn.org Political Action are scheduled to hand- deliver thousands of petition signatures to the White House after the rally. The petition says, “President Bush should stop blaming the victims of Hurricane Katrina and get to work helping them.”
WHO: Katrina Evacuees and MoveOn members
WHAT: Protest outside the White House in support of Hurricane Victims
WHEN: Thursday, September 8th at 1 p.m.
WHERE: Pennsylvania Avenue NW. In front of the White House. (Metro: Red Line: Farragut North. Blue-Orange Line: Farragut West or McPherson Square)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Excellent Visuals — Signs reading “Shame” and “Help Hurricane Victims”