The Bush Crime Family is known for their sense of noblesse oblige. For example, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Poppy Bush and his wife Barbara joined with Bill and Hillary Clinton in announcing the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund. As part of that effort, they all decided to visit the Astrodome which was housing thousands of displaced people from Louisiana. People remember the visit best for the comments former First Lady Barbara Bush made on the radio show Marketplace:
“Almost everyone I’ve talked to says: ‘We’re going to move to Houston,’ ” Mrs Bush said late on Monday after visiting evacuees at the Astrodome with her husband, former president George Bush.
“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,” she said.
“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this – this is working very well for them.”
That is the kind of attitude you expect from the Republican aristocracy, but the current governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is supposed to be different. He’s the anti-Bush. He didn’t go to Yale and Harvard. He went to Texas A&M. He’s a man of the people. So, let’s listen to his wife talk about the unemployed:
Anita Perry said today that she could sympathize with unemployed people because her son Griffin had to resign his job at a bank in order to campaign for his father, Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Mrs. Perry’s words came in response to David Von Schmittou, 45, who said he had lost a high-paying job during the recession and now worked odd jobs as a handyman to make ends meet.
“I’m just sympathizing. Let me tell you. Our son has resigned his job because of the federal regulations Washington has put on us,” she said. “He resigned his job two weeks ago. Because he can’t go out and campaign for his father because of SEC regulations. He’s got a wife; he’s got a job. He’s trying to start up a business. So I empathize with you.”
Which reminds me of a story from last June:
TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own.
“I should tell my story,” Mr. Romney said. “I’m also unemployed.”
He chuckled. The eight people gathered around him, who had just finished talking about strategies of finding employment in a slow-to-recover economy, joined him in laughter.
“Are you on LinkedIn?” one of the men asked.
“I’m networking,” Mr. Romney replied. “I have my sight on a particular job.”
Let’s take a look at a picture of Mitt Romney when he did have a job. Here he is celebrating the huge amount of money he made at Bain Capital through the outsourcing of jobs.
Any questions?
