No, Britney Spears wasn't there. It was the "What Hurricane and GOP party on event" this past weekend. I kid you not on this story. I hope this on the top of the news. Good job by ABC reporter Brian Ross exposing this.
Raw Story:
Despite John McCain's request over the weekend that the Republican convention be toned down in light of the threat posed by Hurricane Gustav, Republican delegates and their lobbyist friends continued to party the night away -- and Democratic bloggers were delighted by the spectacle.
ABC correspondent Brian Ross reported on several of the more flamboyant revels, including one Saturday night GOP party in honor of the convention president where pink spotlights, pink boas, and pink wigs were the order of the day. When Ross tried to corner Republican officials and ask them about the appropriateness of partying as Hurricane Gustav threatened New Orleans, they either fled, hid behind their pink boas, or simply shrugged and said, "Everybody goes through hard times."
Even after John McCain announced that the convention was being toned down, the National Rifle Association, Lockheed Martin, and the American Trucking Associations sponsored a Sunday night party at a downtown bar -- with a band called "Hookers and Blow" -- hosted by former Tom DeLay aide Glenn LeMunyon.
GOP House Deputy Whip Bill Shuster was there at a table of lobbyists and Capitol Hill staffers and told Ross, "I have no hesitation" about coming to the party, adding that the lobbyist he was sitting with "is a friend of mine, I've known him for twenty years." Despite the glitz, concluded Ross, "this was all about business -- the behind-the-scenes business of influence and power."
The full ABC story is available here
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Welcome to the new America and this is what we are now with Republicans in charge. Yes ladies are just Hookers and you know about the rest. We turn our backs on our kids while they have sex and get pregnant and have shot gun wedding as the Church cheers it on. We have Law Makers who molest our kids but pay us off and there's those who look for sex in the men's room. Yes we love our lying President and corrupt VP. New qualifications for being President or VP is you must win Miss Congeniality in a beauty contest or have memory lost and bad health. Now more education or experienced needed to sit in the US Oval Office. Look with this group you don't even have to know anything about US history as Sarah as done. We have dropped so low it's scary.
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