Great moments in television
CNN's Jack Cafferty nearly sent Wolf Blitzer running to the little girls' room last night.
CAFFERTY: Congressional Republicans are suggesting ways for the government to save more than $500 billion over the next ten years to offset the cost of Hurricane Katrina. Cutting funding on programs from NASA to Medicare to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The question this hour is, what should be cut from the federal budget in order to pay for Katrina?
Andrea in Round Lake Beach, Illinois, writes: Bush's war in Iraq should be de-funded, and the soldiers should be brought home. Let the oil companies, Halliburton and others with an interest in the Iraqi oil fields finance their own enterprises, it should not be a public expense.
Sherrie in Camarillo, California: Oh, no question about it. Congressional salaries, their underlings' salaries, and the president's salary too, while we're at it.
Maggie writes from New Smyrna Beach, Florida: They should cut all perks to oil companies, that bridge in Alaska and all tax cuts to the rich folks, but knowing the way our government works, they'll end up cutting funding for the Army Corps of Engineers, the Centers for Disease Control, and to public services for lower income Americans.
Michael in Plymouth, Minnesota: The bulk of the funding for the restoration of the Gulf Coast should come from the recently passed transportation bill. Even a blind man can see there's enough pork in that bill to feed an army for several years over -- Wolf.
BLITZER: All right. Tom DeLay says there's no pork, everything is essential. I don't know if you heard him say that.
CAFFERTY: Has he been indicted yet?
BLITZER: (laughing) We'll leave that alone.
Andrea in Round Lake Beach, Illinois, writes: Bush's war in Iraq should be de-funded, and the soldiers should be brought home. Let the oil companies, Halliburton and others with an interest in the Iraqi oil fields finance their own enterprises, it should not be a public expense.
Sherrie in Camarillo, California: Oh, no question about it. Congressional salaries, their underlings' salaries, and the president's salary too, while we're at it.
Maggie writes from New Smyrna Beach, Florida: They should cut all perks to oil companies, that bridge in Alaska and all tax cuts to the rich folks, but knowing the way our government works, they'll end up cutting funding for the Army Corps of Engineers, the Centers for Disease Control, and to public services for lower income Americans.
Michael in Plymouth, Minnesota: The bulk of the funding for the restoration of the Gulf Coast should come from the recently passed transportation bill. Even a blind man can see there's enough pork in that bill to feed an army for several years over -- Wolf.
BLITZER: All right. Tom DeLay says there's no pork, everything is essential. I don't know if you heard him say that.
CAFFERTY: Has he been indicted yet?
BLITZER: (laughing) We'll leave that alone.
The unethical scumbag.
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