{"id":10410,"date":"2013-08-21T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T23:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10410"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T23:56:44","slug":"the-stupid-party-louisiana-republicans-blame-obama-for-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10410","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid Party: Louisiana Republicans Blame Obama For Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a jaw-dropping display of pitiful ignorance, Republican respondents to a new survey<\/a> have sunk to lows previously thought unattainable.<\/p>\n

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The survey asked: “Who do you think was more responsible for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina: George W.Bush or Barack Obama?”<\/em> When I first read the question I thought it was a joke. Surely everyone knows that Bush was president during the Katrina debacle and that Obama wasn’t even a candidate for the office. It would be three more years before Obama would be inaugurated. Only a complete idiot would choose Obama in response to that question.<\/p>\n

Well, I suppose I shouldn’t underestimate the idiocy of the southern Tea-publican. While 44% said they were not sure who was more responsible, 29% picked Obama. Only 28% chose the correct answer, George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that this was a poll of Louisiana Republicans. You know, the Louisiana where New Orleans is. The New Orleans that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and later by Bush. It’s also the Louisiana whose governor, Bobby Jindal, warned his Republican Party not to become the “stupid party.”<\/em> Apparently they aren’t listening.<\/p>\n

There are obviously consequences to aggressively rejecting science and math and fact-based observations of reality. Likewise, there are consequences to opposing education and the funding necessary to implement it effectively. Republicans take pride in dismissing higher education as the folly of snobs and elitists. They advocate policies that severely harm public schools and students. So it comes as no surprise that they wind up embarrassing themselves before the rest of the nation with displays of ignorance that are almost painful to observe. And isn’t a fluke. Take a look at the academic profile of the ten best and worst educated states (per Fox Business<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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In a jaw-dropping display of pitiful ignorance, Republican respondents to a new survey have sunk to lows previously thought unattainable. Be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook The survey asked: “Who do you think was more responsible for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina: George W.Bush or Barack Obama?” When I first read the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Stupid Party: Louisiana #Republicans Blame #Obama For Katrina","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[167,301],"class_list":["post-10410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-george-w-bush","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2HU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10418,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10418","url_meta":{"origin":10410,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Dead GOP Scandal Society","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/22\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox News has been engaged in a protracted campaign of manufactured scandal mongering for most of President Obama's term in office. 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