Huckabee jokes that Republicans have ‘called in Pat Robertson to pray’ Hurricane Gustav ‘off the coast.’
By on Aug 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Huckabee jokes that Republicans have ‘called in Pat Robertson to pray’ Hurricane Gustav ‘off the coast.’
During his radio show today, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh asked former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) how he believed the Republican party would respond if Hurricane Gustav makes landfall in New Orleans during the Republican National Convention. “I think they’ve called in Pat Robertson to pray it off the coast,” Huckabee jokingly responded. Listen Here:
UPDATE: A look back at how Bush and McCain responded to Katrina:
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Oh you're one funny guy Huckleberry. I sure wish McCracken would pick you for his running mate. Between the two of you your IQs don't hit triple digits.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:05 pmIt would be the ultimate irony if Gustav hits during the RNC convention.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:05 pmMust be some serious sinners they got in Florida...
August 27th, 2008 at 4:07 pmShayne; double digits?
Methinks you have got them over-rated. I was thinking closer to single digits.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:07 pm:-)
YUK IT UP GOMER.....YOU'RE GOING TO WAKE UP IN HELL ONE OF THESE DAYS
August 27th, 2008 at 4:11 pmHuckabee jokes that Republicans have ‘called in Pat Robertson to pray’ Hurricane Gustav ‘off the coast.’
- - Oh yeah, Huckabible JOKED. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
August 27th, 2008 at 4:11 pmThe empathy oozing from the Republican Party wouldn't drown an earthworm.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:14 pmIs Pat Robertson Daryll?
I can testify that Daryll is full of hot air, but I didn't know he was going incognito as a blogger.
I don't wish a hurricane on anyone on Earth.
Apparently, Hyuckabee finds them funny.
The funniest thing about Huckabee is that he talks with Rush...
August 27th, 2008 at 4:16 pmand we all know their's nothing funny about Rush.
What a bunch of serious dumbfcuks.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:18 pmWow -- the Republicans think that serious and lethal hurricanes are comedy material. Huckabee missed a chance to treat the threat of Gustav seriously and strike a blow to take the perception of the Republican party as a "fiddle while Rome burns" entity and turn it around. Instead, he decided to paint the hurricane as a trivial matter.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pmHuckleberry Pyle is trying to bring out his inner Dennis Miller ............Who also isn't funny.
Huckleberry and the rest of the GOP better start praying for themselves and the hurricane that's going to hit them come November ........
August 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pm"Dear God,
If you must hit us, please hit another Democratic strong hold again.
Amen"
- Pat Robertson
PEACE
August 27th, 2008 at 4:22 pmDuring his radio show today, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh asked former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) how he believed the Republican party would respond if Hurricane Gustav makes landfall in New Orleans during the Republican National Convention.
If history is any indication, one suspects that at the very least, there will be cake.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:26 pmWhy does President-Elect Huckster think he's a comedian?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:27 pmOh, he's not the president elect?
No. Daryll can't be wrong about that, his dog told him!
Hey don't distract me, I'm trying to pray neo conservativism off the planet .
August 27th, 2008 at 4:30 pmWell. At least we can be reassured that all the "hurricane-proof" oil assets in the Gulf won't cause any problems.
And as for the Convention? The trolls will probably trumpet about the foresight displayed by having it in "hurricane-proof" Minnesota.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pmMay their Bridge to Nowhere finally collapse in MN.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:37 pmCaption: 'Let them eat cake'
August 27th, 2008 at 4:38 pmHuckleberry is so-o-o- funny! He's a real knee-slapper in the hog barn.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:39 pmWhere the hell is bunny2ears to post his faux outrage over Huckabucks remark?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pmIt doesn't sound like he's joking.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:44 pmThe blow hard did get one thing right.
Obama and Biden rolling up their sleeves and getting to work while the moon bats pray...or is it prey?
This conclusively proves two things. Firstly, that God exists. Secondly, that She's got a Sick sense of humor. That's the Only way something like this could Possibly happen.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:45 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution. Ramen Lives!
So the democrats and that famous "Liberal Media" have framed natural disasters as republican being responsible for them?
No, we have simply pointed out the lack of response to them by a criminal Republican administration.
And Pat and Daryll can get together in a closet and pray the storm away....gay like, and maybe flog each other.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:45 pmMaybe we'll see more of this:
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/7/J/j/bush_guitar_neworleans.jpg
Or perhaps this:
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/o/f/bush_vacation_fishing.jpg
August 27th, 2008 at 4:46 pmHAHAHAHA.....SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY....HEY GOMER....HERE'S SOME OTHER FUNNY DISASTER IDEAS FOR YOUR NEXT SHOW
HOLOCAUST, 9/11, PEARL HARBOR, WWII
August 27th, 2008 at 4:47 pmHere's a spaghetti model of Gustav guys.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:47 pmLooks like a case of very bad timing by the RNC, and/or God’s wrath against that decadent party. If it happens, and no one would want it to for NO’s sake, the RNC should drag Brownie out of the dungeon and publicly flog him, just to distract the masses from the unfolding disaster. They better start praying.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:49 pmA little background music, please,
The Bush flooding of New Orleans: an unnatural disaster.
To the Editor:
"We don't care, we don't care" was the chant of pro-war, pro-Bush hecklers across the street from the Camp Casey peace vigil in Crawford, Texas in late August, 2005. This "we don't care" chant pretty much sums up the attitude of the Bush Syndicate (B. S.) towards the rest of us in America. Actually, Bush, Cheney and the rest of this idiotic neo-con government believes that the only true function of the federal government is to create private money-making opportunities for themselves, their friends, and their corporate contributors. Any activity other than waging aggressive war to steal and colonize other countries' natural resources falls into the category of "we don't care."
The Bush flood of New Orleans happened after the massive Hurricane Katrina had passed the city. It was both predictable and preventable. The Bush flood and the slow-as-molasses-in-January Bush response to it has ripped off the facade of the inept Bush Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subsidiary, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The upper echelons of both of these massive federal bureaucracies have been staffed by incompetent and uncaring Bush buddies, cronies, hacks, frat brothers, former roommates, horse attorneys, contributors and other miscellaneous nincompoops. In making his appointments to the executive management of DHS and FEMA, Bush gave little if any thought to their actual qualifications in the field of emergency management.
Over the last several years, Bush and the GOP-controlled House and Senate have poured over one hundred billion tax dollars into "Homeland Security." What did we get as the federal response to Hurricane Katrina? We got homeland stupidity. After the massive flooding of New Orleans, which initially covered about eighty percent of the city, thousands of residents were herded to the Superdome where they denied water, food, medicine, bedding, toilet facilities and police protection for several long days, meanwhile the Bush gang partied and carried on with their "business as usual" and "let them eat cake" imperial attitudes. George strummed his guitar, raised campaign funds, cut cake with Senator McCain, while Connie Rice did her Imelda Marcos imitation, shopping for expensive shoes in New York City before going to a Broadway play, while Cheney first went on vacation, fishing in Wyoming and then mansion shopping in Maryland, and Rumsfeld went to a professional ball game.
In the first several days of the flooding of New Orleans cable news reporters had to point out the severity of the suffering of thousands of people in the Superdome to the heads of FEMA and DHS. These two had apparently followed the lead of the ever-clueless Bush by not watching the unfolding disaster being revealed on television.
The searing images of human suffering that were shown on television in the first several days after the flooding of New Orleans showed thousands of poor people herded into the Louisiana Superdome and the New Orleans Convention Center without any water, any food, any medicines, any toilet facilities, any bedding or any police protection.
The conduct of the inept corrupt Bush regime in this unnatural disaster (the Bush flood and the slow spastic Bush response of flood relief) is nothing short of criminal. Since the illegitimate Bush regime came to power in January 2001, they have allowed and encouraged massive developments in the natural low-lying wetlands around New Orleans. The presence of these wetlands traditionally helped to protect New Orleans from the storm surges which accompany hurricanes.
The first actions of FEMA after Hurricane Katrina and Flood Bush struck New Orleans was to try to stop almost all of the volunteer, state and federal help from coming into the disaster area. FEMA blocked volunteer help from WalMart, the Coast Guard, the Red Cross, AMTRAK, hundreds of airboats from Florida, the City of Chicago emergency teams, Loudoun County (Virginia) sheriffs, the Nevada police, the New Mexico National Guard, fire-fighting planes from the U. S. Forest Service and even the U. S. Bataan, a hospital ship stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. FEMA also stopped or ignored offers of help from foreign countries including Canada, Cuba and Venezuela, over twenty European counties and Asian countries including Iran and India.
One supposes that volunteer help and aid undercuts the Bush Syndicates system of private corporations making bags of money off of the Bush war on Iraq and the Bush expedited flooding of New Orleans.
It is troubling to see many no-bid federal contracts being given to large corporations for reconstruction along the Gulf Coast. The terms of "no-bid contracts" mean that the corporations get to charge their profits as a percentage of costs incurred, so there is no incentive to be thrifty; in fact, it is the opposite, the more money that the corporate contractor spends on construction, the higher their corporate profits. Add to this the fact that Bush just signed an executive order that suspended the traditional requirement that federal contractors must pay labor the prevailing wages, instead the federal contractors can now pay workers as little as minimum wage. So the folks who are the poorest, get kicked again by Bush. He kicks 'em again when they're down.
New Orleans should be rebuilt on a cooperative local basis. Habitat for Humanity should be the model used for the reconstruction of the many flood-damaged homes in New Orleans. As many physically-able local residents as possible should be employed in the reconstruction of their neighborhoods.
Yours truly,
James K. Sayre
11 September 2005
End.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:50 pmIt's painfully obvious that the men behind the curtain wanted N.O. destroyed to get rid of all the blacks and crime. C'mon, someone even said it. I believe it was something along the lines of God did in a few days what we've been trying to do for decades.
Not to mention the various laws they passed preventing locals from helping rebuild their own community. Rather, towns miles and miles away got funneled millions of Katrina dollars to build, hold your breath, vacation resorts.
That is what Bu$h and the GOP are all about.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pmfreeman Says:
Hey don’t distract me, I’m trying to pray neo conservativism off the planet .
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I would settle for a small island in the South Pacific if they would only STAY there. I dont want to appear to vindictive. If you can pull it off though I wont complain
August 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pmAbu Ben Hussein Leporello Says:
This conclusively proves two things. Firstly, that God exists. Secondly, that She’s got a Sick sense of humor. That’s the Only way something like this could Possibly happen.
Impeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution. Ramen Lives!
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God CLEARLY has a sense of humor just look at the Platypus
August 27th, 2008 at 5:04 pmPerhaps after this storm the Government will allow the Dutch to help us with our levies, as they offered last time.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pmHmm, I just checked with the weatherbug web site (2 PM, PDT, 8 27 08) and their projection of Gustav shows it hitting a New Orleans bullseye on Monday at 8 AM. A little real-time weather distraction from the GOP memorial dirge scheduled to start later that day in Minnesota... This is awful timing, eerily similar to that when 400,000 gallon oil spilled in the Mississippi River stopped John McDrill from going to flying out to an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico to show how safe off-shore drilling could be a few weeks ago... Looks like "God is not on their side" in 2008, to put a twist on an old Bob Dylan song line...
August 27th, 2008 at 5:11 pmWow. Chucklebee's a comic genius!!!
Not.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pmHuckabee might be onto something...counter the hurricane with a bloated windbag, who would try to part the waters but have the waters part him 10 miles away. If Pat wants to get his pray on at the coast, lets encourage this!
August 27th, 2008 at 5:20 pmpete Says:
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Well. At least we can be reassured that all the “hurricane-proof” oil assets in the Gulf won’t cause any problems.
Yes, remember, when you see pictures of big black streaks in the Gulf after a hurricane, it's just dirt or seafoam.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:21 pmWhat a sad pair of geeks! so illegitimate the idiot… so overrated McCain …loser neo-con butt-buddies splurging on taxpayer money!
August 27th, 2008 at 5:33 pmSnark aside, I think most reasonable people will reserve their hopes and prayers for the people in the path of the storm.
However, if Gustav does ANY serious damage, I shudder to think what will happen with gas/fuel prices. When one considers that much of the recent spike happened without any interruptions in supply, it would be logical to assume that the sky's the limit if a couple platforms, refineries, or depots take damage. And it sure as Hell won't be cheap to take off for the upcoming holiday weekend, not to mention the price of driving home!
August 27th, 2008 at 5:40 pmMaybe Robertson will call for Gustav to be assassinated after Chavez!
August 27th, 2008 at 5:52 pmI believe Pat's busy praying for Israel and his chance to get back in on the Galilee World land deal. Oh, Huckabee was just in Jerusalem. He was hawking an American Jewish group raising funds to buy property in the Muslim part of the Old City.
The Rev.'s are busy burnishing their Old Testament roots. If only Israel had parts of its below sea level, like New Orleans.
Oooopss, Lake Galilee is 700 feet below sea level and the Dead Sea over 1,200 feet below sea level.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:28 pmPrayer? To ward off a hurricane?
Well, let's see how that goes.
Praying is like "wishing in one hand and crapping in the other" to see which one fills up first. Praying to divert the path of a hurricane is like crapping in BOTH hands.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:01 pmOf course, Robertson, Hagee and a lot of other preachers knew that Katrina was God's judgement. Just google Pat Robertson Katrina or see http://mediamatters.org/items/200509130004 but also see the Snopes article at http://www.snopes.com/katrina/satire/robertson.asp which includes Robertson warning a gay pride parade in Florida.
He has also been accused of saying “The flooding of New Orleans is a sign that God is tired of seeing his creation mocked by the Mardi Gras and its perverted display of debauchery and exposed breasts.” http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/pat_robertson/2.html
In short, I wonder why he doesn't fly to NOLA, stand at the levee, and raise his hands like Moses parting the Red Sea
August 27th, 2008 at 9:07 pmHuckaberry and Limberger - what a combo..........is this the new duo show that Clear Channel will debut next week??
Make up your own guest list.....LOL!!!
August 27th, 2008 at 9:38 pmWait a minute... that is a pretty funny quip. For an ordained minister that was just runner-up in the Republican presidential primaries to say the Republican Party would likely respond to a hurricane emergency by enlisting prayer from another ordained minister of the same denomination to divert the storm... ?
That seems like quite a nice slam against the Republican party, with a little poke at his own religion thrown in for good measure. A snide atheist radical might have made the very same joke, as a put-down of Republicans and Southern Baptist minister phonies.
Can someone please explain to me in what strange twisted mental context would the likes of Limbaugh and Huckabee even find such a joke humorous?
August 28th, 2008 at 9:34 am