-- Gov. Bobby Jindal, making the Republican Address to the Nation on Mardi Gras. After the speech, bureaucrats in Jindal's Transportation department confirmed that they plan to request federal dollars for a train line connecting "Harrah's to Tigerland" from "the same pot of railroad money in the president’s economic stimulus package that Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized as unnecessary pork on national television Tuesday night." No word yet on whether the Jindal administration supports "something" called hurricane monitoring.
"I honestly don't know anybody who would compare these situations... They are dramatically different.... clearly, at a minimum, [Senator Ronald Burris] misled the Illinois Legislature and the voters of the Illinois [by giving incomplete answers about his contacts with and fundraising efforts for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) as Blagojevich was considering appointing Burris to the state's Senate seat.] ... Obviously there are even more serious charges of perjury, but I guess that will sort itself out in terms of legal proceedings."
-- Senator David Vitter, making time during Mardi Gras to call for Senator Ronald Burris' resignation. Between October 1999 and Mardi Gras day 2001, Vitter made no less than 5 phone calls to the D.C. Madam, including some calls that occurred during House roll call votes in which Vitter participated. Vitter lied to the voters of Louisiana, journalists and religious leaders about his criminal activity with prostitutes, and even took action to discredit and deny job opportunities to a reporter who investigated Vitter's serial whoremongering. He has never given complete answers about his role as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the D.C. Madam scandal, and planned to take the fifth amendment when called to testify at her trial, prior to her suicide. Vitter's GOP colleagues, who coordinated with ruthless efficiency against Sen Larry Craig during his scandal, stood and applauded Sen. Vitter when he finally returned to D.C. after he admitted to a "serious sin" with whores.
"Let ice water flow through your veins. You have learned many hard earned lessons about the ruthlessness of evil and you are fighting the good fight.
"You are protecting the interest and power of a 60% African American electorate against an onslaught of temporary white power created by the elections right after Katrina.
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"Trust that all across America, you are a wonder, and [the white City Councilmembers] are the clowns, even though local media which shares the white power agenda avoids touting the amazing work that you and your administration has done, even while under siege. The world is back in New Orleans, and they can see that we are extremely functional, and the cranes are rising."
-- Lloyd "The Love Doctor" Dennis, in an open letter to mayor Ray Nagin. Mr Dennis wrote this letter in defense of the current city contracting system, which has contracted with his business, among others.
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