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Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments

By Jeralyn, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 02:42:20 PM EST
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From Terry Kindlon in the comments section of an earlier post:

I hereby propose that we start using the name "Bushville" for each and every refugee encampment. The bumbling of the Bush Administration and its utter inability to cope with a predictable and much anticipated natural disaster should provide the spark for a new populist movement in our beloved country that will reverse and vanquish the elitism, selfishness and insanity that has infected our government during the past 5 years.

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    Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments | 9 comments (9 topical)
    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#1)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    Great idea Terry! And the MSM might even be persuaded to follow your lead on that... if we start by referring to the current administration as the "Bush League" in posts from now on...

    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#2)
    by cpinva on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    well, it certainly didn't enhance herbert hoover's political prospects during the great depression. it's one of two things that most everyone remembers from their u.s. history classes about that event: 1. the stock market crash of 1929., and 2. the name "hooverville" applied to the shanty towns that sprang up as a result of the dispossessed squatting on open land, and building homes made of anything available, because they had nothing else. why do i keep expecting to hear rumors of bush and his entire administration taking a late night flight out of national ap, and being granted asylum in france? lol

    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    I read with great interest the comments posted above and I'd like to offer the following: What now???? So here we are in 2005 and a portion of our great country looks like parts of the world looked like after horrible wars or the proverbial Völkerwanderungen. Our fellow citizens are dying by the thousands, here and abroad because we, Americans (58+million in 2004) decided then that the sitting, totally incompetent regime, should be retained. Have we lost our "marbles" or what??? Are we going to continue to allow a shortsighted, prejudicial, "compassionate conservative", very vocal minority push us further and further into a future with "no future"? Or are we going to stand up and say, ENOUGH is ENOUGH. We are fighting a loosing war because our leadership has NO clue what to do, or how to do it short of throwing more young lives at it. We are and will continue to face serious environmental challenges as the years go by, and yet, our leadership continues to travel in an orbit that only they know, and which, by the way, has nothing to do with reality. So, AMERICA, what are you going to do now???? Will you cower under and pretend that all's well while we have the leadership that we have? Or are you going to wake up (in 2006) and start to seriously clean house???

    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#4)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    Make sure the diebold machines register votes correctly and produce a paper trail first. We may be more than is known.

    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#5)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    The biggest of the Bushvilles will appropriately be based in Houston. And New Orleans is hereby renamed LAKE GEORGE.

    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#6)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    So, AMERICA, what are you going to do now???? Will you cower under and pretend that all's well while we have the leadership that we have? Or are you going to wake up (in 2006) and start to seriously clean house???
    "If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?" asked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican. Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts called the government's response "an embarrassment." Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., called upon Bush to recall National Guardsmen stationed in Iraq whose homes and families were in the path of Katrina's destruction. The president said there were enough Guard troops for Iraq and recovery efforts... The president said there were enough Guard troops for Iraq and recovery efforts... Oh, well... jeez... I guess there is no problem after all... george says everything will be just fine... that's a relief... I was getting just slightly concerned there for a moment... how silly of me.

    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:06 PM EST
    ...pretend that all's well while we have the leadership that we have? Or are you going to wake up (in 2006) and start to seriously clean house???
    My sarcasm above is just venting frustration and anger. I truly hope that this nightmare does wake up all of us enough to seriously clean house... I wonder though... I wonder...

    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#8)
    by cpinva on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:07 PM EST
    as long as the fiction of boys kissing boys, individual reproductive choice and government sponsored religion in public venues as major concerns of the majority of americans is able to be maintained by the radical right, serious issues that actually impact the mass of the population, and are a concern of both the fed and state govt's, will be swept under the carpet. while the individual rights of the parties affected by the above are certainly important, the ability of the republicans to sway voters, solely on those issues, relieves them of any need to address more critical economic and security issues. so far, the democrats have done a pathetic job of holding the republican's feet to the fire, preferring instead to be "republican lite", so don't expect too much from them. the MSM has been complicit in the rise of the republican party to dominance, in spite of the right wing mantra of the "liberal media". W wouldn't be in the WH were it not for useful idiots such as maureen dowd. will this event cause people's eyes to suddenly open and "see"? i wouldn't bet the rent money on it.

    Re: Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:26 PM EST
    Some of us are working for a Bushville in DC. On 9/11 survivors of Katrina will commit an act of Civil disobedience by setting up an illegal camp on the Washington DC Mall. Bushville will stay there as long as it takes to get answers and change.

    Bushville: Naming the Evacuee Encampments | 9 comments (9 topical)