Surprising Speach From the Left? Hardly.

Chrenkoff has a list of representative quotes from the left regarding Katrina. He calls them "exploitation quotes", I call them discraceful. Its a good sampling of hatred from political characters to the man on the street. Here is one of my favorites:


"10. Joseph Cannon at BradBlog was initially feeling just as compassionate, but then he changed his mind - somewhat:

So why was I thinking of starting a movement against giving aid to the stricken areas?Because these are red states. They voted for Bush. These ninnies obviously wanted these policies, and they deserve to live with the consequences of their votes.A large part of me still believes that many of these W-worshipping numbskulls deserve to suffer and to die. They brought it on themselves. Let them look to Jayzuss for aid: It's time they stopped leeching off the more productive blue staters...But then (to paraphrase the old song) I thought I'd better think it out again.Many of the victims, the ones who have suffered the most, are poor. The hardest hit were the blue state folk living among the red state maniacs. New Orleans, we should note, went heavily for Kerry.And that's why we must help. Although it was very tempting to say otherwise.

But let us make one thing clear: We WILL politicize this issue.The Republicans did not shirk from making political use of 9/11, and we should not shirk from reminding the country that Bush turned what should have been a mere problem into Ragnarok.Conservatives may accuse us of lacking taste if we use this sad occasion to point out sadder facts of political life. Cable news pundits will try to pretend that now is not the time for partisan politics.If they say that, screw 'em.If the Bush-voters want Californians and New Yorkers and other blue staters to fork over dough, then they damn well had better take our words as well. Republican policies caused this catastrophe. Force them to hear that message -- again and again. That message is the price of the charity they now demand. "



You gotta love the compashion that these people show. What a great American this guy is. Willing to help out only those who voted against Bush in the last election. You want to know why I have become more vocal the past couple of years in my political beliefs? It is to counter the assholes like Joseph Cannon who epitomize everything the left stands for. And to be fair to my few level headed left leaning brethren, I will throw in the word "majority" when I say the left. I realize there are a few liberals who will do thier part without considering whether the person they are helping is a rebublican or democract.