Idaho Falls

Just me and Joe Wilson at his appearance in Pocatello a couple of years ago. I'm telling him that he and his wife should sue Dick Cheney back to the trailer park.

Attraction

Courtship

Breakup

I know - it's silly.

"How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn’t get out of the way of a hurricane."

I've heard friends complain about Newt's comment on the Katrina victims. They say he was calling the Ninth Ward residents too stupid to get out of the way. It seems to me that my friends are making the same mistake here as the wingnuts made with Kerry's botched joke. I read that quote and believe that he was making a good point. I think he was blaming all sorts of American institutions for failing to provide material aid and education resources to the poor of New Orleans so as to make them more capable of caring for themselves.

Whether you agree or not, It's a valid interpretation of the quote above. And we do look kind of 'unhinged' for ignoring the possibility.

Anywho. . .for what it's worth.