“Don’t Tase Me, Bro,” a phrase that swept the nation after a U.S. college student used it seeking to stop campus police from throwing him out of a speech by Sen. John Kerry, was named on Wednesday as the most memorable quote of 2007.

Runners up:

2. “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.”

3. “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”

4. “That’s some nappy-headed hos there.”

5. “I don’t recall.”

6. “There’s only three things he [Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani] mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.”

7. “I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody [Vice President Dick Cheney] who has a 9 percent approval rating.”

8. “(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.”

9. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

10. “I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.”

See if you can guess sphinctersaidwhat. Answers here.

Here’s a hint: dubya didn’t make the list at all this year. Which is just plain crazy talk, what with mind diamonds like these:

They need to be eating US beef. It’s good for them. They’ll like it. And so we’re working hard to get that beef market opened up. – May 25, 2007

You know, I — I think it’s hard to judge how their conversations went from a picture. Generally leaders don’t like to be photographed scowling at each other or making bad gestures at each other. So I’m not surprised that there was a nice picture of them walking along. I try to make sure that when I’m with foreign leaders, there’s a pretty picture of the two of us walking down the colonnades, or something like that, to send a good message. – October 17, 2007

Not to mention all the verbal diarrhea I haven’t yet had a chance to Bush Baby up. (Mostly because I’m running low on cute toehead photos. The horrah!)

See, for example:

“As you know, my position is clear — I’m the commander guy.” –George W. Bush, who apparently is no longer “The Decider,” Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

“Information is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it’s also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.”—Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

“If you’ve got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I’m talking about.”—discussing the sorts of jobs many illegal immigrant workers perform, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007

“And everybody wants to be loved—not everybody, but—you run for office, I guess you do. You never heard anybody say, ‘I want to be despised, I’m running for office.’ “—Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007

“And my concern, David, is several.”—Speaking to David Gregory, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2007

“Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.”—Washington, D.C., April 3, 2007

“They’re innocent, they were doing nothing, and they were summarily plucked out of water.”—Discussing British sailors detained by Iran while their ship was on patrol in the Persian Gulf, Camp David, March 31, 2007

“I’m a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. There’s a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane.”—Discussing post-Katrina wetland improvements, New Orleans, March 1, 2007

“And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life’s moving on, that they’re able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.”—Appearing on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Jan. 16, 2007

“And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I’m sorry it’s the case, and I’ll work hard to try to elevate it.”— Speaking on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007

All via Slate, methinks.

Story via Diane E. Dees of MoJo, who also points to some lovely misogynistic quotes from Chris Matthews.

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You know, I — I think it’s hard to judge how their conversations went from a picture. Generally leaders don’t like to be photographed scowling at each other or making bad gestures at each other. So I’m not surprised that there was a nice picture of them walking along. I try to make sure that when I’m with foreign leaders, there’s a pretty picture of the two of us walking down the colonnades, or something like that, to send a good message.

Straight from whitehouse.gov.

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Unfortunately, we won’t be able to bring them home until the end of September. Next week we leave for NY – again – and will be away for a few weeks. Shane’s sis is getting married, and then a week later my little bro heads to Texas for boot camp (the Air Force). Not exactly a trip we can postpone. The 18-hour drive is stressful enough without mixing in two brand new canines, which will then have to room with my parents’ two dogs and cats while Shane & I skip town for a few days for the nuptials (which I hear will involve plenty of gawd-talk – oh my!).

So Gracie and Penelope (soon to be renamed Kaylee and Jayne, Kaylee and Katrina, or Kaylee and Selena…it’s still up in the air) will have to stay with their foster mom until then. The unfortunate part is that foster mommy cares for more animals than we realized, and houses many in a rented kennel, rotating which furbabies she takes home with her every night. So, I feel like quite the guilty “mother” right now. The thought of “my” girls sleeping on a cold concrete slab is too much to bear. Hell, the thought of any dog living like that kills me. People suck.

Anyway, to the Katrina links. Maybe I’ll get to writing a few more in-depth posts regarding some of these articles, maybe not. Either way, check ‘em out.

Mother Jones: After Katrina (8/28/06)

An index of MoJo’s Katrina coverage from August through October 2005.

Grist Magazine: Life After Katrina: A new exhibit lets New Orleans residents tell their own stories (8/29/06)

Exactly what it sounds like.

Nola.com: How an amphibious bus never made it to Katrina (8/24/06)

The basic premise: A would-be do-gooder offers our Dear Leaders the services of his ‘unsinkable bus’ in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Actually, he offers the services of a whole fleet of unsinkable buses, stationed ’round the country. You see, as the ‘inventor and fabricator’ of said bus, he rallies his customers (via the internets) to action. Many answer his call and volunteer to lend their $225,000 Hydra Terras to the rescue effort, free of charge. Sadly, while the buses could overcome Hurricane Katrina, they couldn’t bust their way through all that sticky red tape.

Snopes.com: Crushed Hopes (7/1/06)

The urban legend: The mayor of New Orleans turned down an offer for the city to make $5 million on the removal of vehicles wrecked by Hurricane Katrina and instead opted for plan that would have cost the city $23 million.

Status: (…wait for it!…) True

Another ‘crushing’ example of government incompetence. Seriously, guys, it just isn’t funny anymore.

ABC News: Exclusive: Whistleblowers Say State Farm Cheated Katrina Victims (8/28/06)

South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Policy disputes stall post-Katrina rebuilding (8/27/06)

Business & Media Institute: Unhappy Anniversary: Katrina Insurance Battle Continues (8/23/06)

Three of many news reports regarding Katrina survivors’ disputes with their insurance companies. The last is written from the point of view of Big Business, so expect plenty of crocodile tears.

SFGate: Bush spends a day, Katrina lingers on; President alternately hopeful, aware that problems still exist as he tours devastated Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast (8/29/06)

The NY Times: Year After Katrina, Bush Still Fights for 9/11 Image (8/28/06)

Bitch, please. You use the anniversary as a shameless (and rather transparent) PR ploy – even seeking out the one N.O. resident who doesn’t (yet) think that you’re a total douchebag – and then you wonder why Americans are so fed up with your sorry ass? You should be thanking Jeebus that you haven’t been impeached. Yet.

Really, what a waste of life.

The NY Times: Outlines Emerge for a Shaken New Orleans (8/26/06)

A look at N.O. one year later, with an emphasis on the disparate progress in different areas of the city. If you can still get to it, the page also links to some excellent multimedia features.

Mikhaela’s The Boiling Point: Roving Reporter: Katrina Losses

Cartoonist Mikhaela Blake Reid sums it up:

So say you’re a crapbag excuse for a president who was playing air guitar and eating birthday cake while thousands of people drowned, many of them black and poor. And say you didn’t really do a heckuva a job getting them jobs or rebuilding their homes. And say it’s a year later, and you want to reach out to them and show them you care, you understand, you really understand? How do you express your loss to all these (largely black and poor) victims?

By talking about how much you miss Senator Trent Lott’s porch. You know, the Senator who had to step down as majority leader because he longed for the days of Strom Thurmond, segregation and lynching? [...]

Because nothing says “I feel your pain” like longing for racist lemonade. Meanwhile Lott is sitting pretty in the Senate and living in his other house, while Katrina’s real victims are stuck in trailers.

I haven’t yet found the perfect Garbato baby picture for Bush’s latest ‘woe is Lott’ quote, so humor me while I share a classic Katrina Bushism:

After all this, I ask you: President Bush: douchebag or World’s Biggest Douchebag?

Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2006-09-04b/
Filed under: Current Events, Heap o’ Headlines, Your Featherhead’s Furbabies, Hurricane Katrina — Kelly @ September 4, 2006 11:30 pm

Don’t look at me – policy is Rove’s forte.
Karl, where are ya, buddy? Doh!

The lessons of Katrina are important. We’ve learned a lot here at the federal level. We’re much more ready this time than we were the last time. Let’s, first of all, pray there’s no hurricanes. That would be, like, step one.

- GW, on the new and improved (born again?) FEMA

Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2006-05-03/
Filed under: Quotables, Bushisms — Kelly @ May 3, 2006 10:40 pm

Bush Babies!

“I hear the voices and I read the front page and I know the speculation. But I’m the decider and I decide what’s best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.”

- GW, self-proclaimed ‘Decider’

Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2006-04-18b/
Filed under: Quotables, Bushisms — Kelly @ April 18, 2006 5:20 pm