‘Katrina Kids’ praise Bush, FEMA in song

April 18, 2006

You’ve got to be kidding me.

At the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, children from the stricken Gulf Coast region serenaded First Lady Laura [tag]Bush[/tag] with a [tag]song[/tag] praising the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency.

To the tune of “Hey Look Me Over,” about 100 young children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:

“Our country’s stood beside us, people have sent us aid.
[tag]Katrina[/tag] could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
[tag]Congress[/tag], Bush and [tag]FEMA[/tag], people across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!”

As Nico noted, the federal response to the hurricane has produced widespread fraud, misspent funds, and a series of broken promises.

Who on earth asked these [tag]children[/tag] to sign a song praising “Congress, Bush and FEMA” for their response to Katrina? Haven’t the kids been through enough?

Please,

These are the guys who, in the middle of the Katrina response, pulled a bunch of firefighters out of a sexual harassment training seminar in Atlanta and sent them to the gulf coast…

… to stand behind George Bush as a backdrop.

The firefighters thought they were going to HELP. Turns out, they were only going to help W look good. At the same ‘event’ where he told “Brownie” he was doing a “heck of a job”.

Appearance over substance. They create their own realities (plural because they have to change them every three months (note Iraq) ).

  • Does this remind anyone else of North Korea? How about the USSR under Stalin?

  • Creepy. This comes from the same crew that shamelessly exploits soldiers as campaign props. I used to think that this bunch, the bushistas, was all about style over substance. They can’t even get the style part right.

  • Isn’t it interesting how the song doesn’t mention the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana?

  • “… And the chocolate ration has been increased to 25 grams…” Orwell would be so proud.

  • Hand-picked audiences, hand-picked kids.

    I think it is utterly appalling and disgustintly cynical to use kids in such a fashion. For anyone who still doesn’t see the cynical motives behind this administration, pay attention, here is another piece of evidence.

  • Somebody in the White House has a very sick, but refined, sense of humor.

    Angry’s right–this is like fucking Stalin being praised by the people he abuses the worst. The History Channel’s going to have a field day with this administration in the years ahead (once the passage of time allows America to evaluate Bush without 24/7 Bush defending)–too much material for just one show.

  • Wow … sounds stunningly a lot like this:

    Onward, brothers, to the barricades!
    The Führer calls, follow him now!
    Reaction has betrayed him
    But the Third Reich comes nevertheless.

    Now excuse me while I vomit …

  • Now, we can officially add the title of CHILD ABUSER to these clowns. That might be a good nail to drive into the Republikanner coffin—show the kids singing, with a backdrop of everything that hasn’t even been touched yet in New Orleans, and ask the question: “Why is George Bush and the Republican Congress making little kids tell their lies for them?” Satire and sarcasm—it’s a classic “pincer” movement to defang the Reich beast….

  • Similar thought to that of Unholy Moses.

    Mine runs more along the lines of the new Soviet-inspired thought police. How about this: VP Cheney as KGB Chief Putin.

    Are the cold warriors in this administration so nostalgic for the old fight that they’re recreating it with the Bush administration starring as the Soviet hardliners?

  • This is truly nauseating. Little kids will do anything their “respected” “adult” leaders tell them to – even drinking poisoned Kool-Aid. The people who came up with this idea (no doubt a church choir director) should be exposed and made to do hurricane relief work in New Orleans/Mississippi for a year. Instead they’ll no doubt be invited for a reprise at some future GOP event.

  • Ah, the joys of getting lyrics off the internet and having a sick sense of humor…

    Kids should have sang this for them guys…

    Yes Cheney loves me for Faux News tells me so
    Cheney loves me this I know
    For Faux News tells me so
    Their hearts to him belong
    His is weak but theirs are strong

    Yes Cheney loves me
    Oh, yes Cheney loves me
    Yes Cheney loves me cause Faux News tells me so

    Swimming through the pollute quay
    Always guide me FEMA I pray
    Undeserving, and stubbornly always fail to rescue me still

    Yes Brownie loves me
    Oh yes Brownie loves me
    Oh yes Brownie loves me, for King George tells me so
    Yes Jesus loves me, love
    Oh yes Jesus loves me for King George tells me so
    For King George tells me so

    (Feels so bad to know) that Katrina sank my home
    See, sometimes I get the feeling I’m really boned
    Even when FEMA says, Even when FEMA says
    Even when FEMA says it ain’t so

    See I know that he loves me
    Whether I vote right, whether I’m white

  • My wonderful editing skills failed me again.
    The Brownie Verse should be:

    Yes Brownie loves me
    Oh yes Brownie loves me
    Oh yes Brownie loves me, for King George tells me so
    Yes Brownie loves me, love
    Oh yes Brownie loves me for King George tells me so
    For King George tells me so

  • LOL doubtful.

    Now that I think about “No Child Left Behind” and the recurring theme of the apocolypse that seems to follow this admin, perhaps that bill had nothing to do with education.

  • Wow. Holy shit. Unholy Moses had the most dead-on comment. That is truly alarming.

  • Yes! Angry New Yorker (#3), my horrified reaction exactly! Every kid who sang got an Easter Egg and a week’s luxury time of sleeping in a real trailer. Also, their parents weren’t killed…

  • “Now that I think about “No Child Left Behind” and the recurring theme of the apocolypse that seems to follow this admin, perhaps that bill had nothing to do with education.” – Gridlock

    Would explain their theory of abstinence eduction. Keep the kids from having (sinful) sex until the Rapture to make sure more of them get to heaven. Don’t worry about real sex education because this generation won’t need it anyway.

  • This is going to be my new diet strategy: I will read this post every day just before lunch and dinner.

  • I now realize we actually lost the Cold War. The U.S. has become everything it thought it was defeating. The only difference between us and the USSR is that we have plentiful toilet paper and Bush and Cheney aren’t yet enshrined in a mausoleum on the Mall.

  • Lance,
    Since only 144,000 people can go to heaven, then every kid I save means one less open slot for me.

    So if I was an evangelical, I’d want everybody to party it down. Screw abstinence. 😉

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