{"id":7164,"date":"2006-04-18T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2006-04-18T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T13:10:48","slug":"katrina-kids-praise-bush-fema-in-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/katrina-kids-praise-bush-fema-in-song\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Katrina Kids&#8217; praise Bush, FEMA in song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2006\/04\/17\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes\/\">You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>To the tune of &#8220;Hey Look Me Over,&#8221; about 100 young children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our country&#8217;s stood beside us, people have sent us aid.<br \/>\n[tag]Katrina[\/tag] could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.<br \/>\n[tag]Congress[\/tag], Bush and [tag]FEMA[\/tag], people across our land<br \/>\nTogether have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Nico <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/04\/17\/katrina-song\/\">noted<\/a>, the federal response to the hurricane has produced widespread fraud, misspent funds, and a series of broken promises.<\/p>\n<p>Who on earth asked these [tag]children[\/tag] to sign a song praising &#8220;Congress, Bush and FEMA&#8221; for their response to Katrina? Haven&#8217;t the kids been through enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;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 &#8220;Hey Look Me Over,&#8221; about 100 young children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang: &#8220;Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}