The Newt (Gingrich, that is) says (in reference to the KatrinaTowns of desperation and poverty that Bush and his sycophants want):
At least in the case of housing, critics say that the president's unwillingness to rely on existing programs could raise costs. Instead of offering $10,000 vouchers, FEMA is paying an average of $16,000 for each trailer in the new parks it is contemplating. Even many Republicans wonder why the government would want to build trailer parks when many evacuees are now living in communities with plenty of vacant, privately owned apartments.
"The idea that — in a community where we could place people in the private housing market to reintegrate them into society — we would put them in [trailer] ghettos with no jobs, no community, no future, strikes me as extraordinarily bad public policy, and violates every conservative principle that I'm aware of," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican.
"If they do it," Gingrich said of administration officials, "they will look back on it six months from now as the greatest disaster of this administration."
When the Newt is making sense, something is wrong. But how can one say that this is the greatest disaster of this administration? There are SO many to choose from!
Oh, man, it KILLS me to have to agree with Newt Gingrich, but in this case I think I do. Horrors.
Your blog is such a happy, cheery place...
Posted by: Jenny | September 23, 2005 at 02:25 PM