Mitt the Twit tells homeless hurricane victim to go home and call 211!

[WI_DEM]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/mitt-romney-211_n_1848432.html

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it's still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.

"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.

Chiarello said she will likely seek some other shelter because her home was submerged in the flooding. She expressed frustration about the town's lack of flood protection.

[Lasher]

1. Romney probably meant for him to go to one of his other homes.

Surely the man has at least 5 others.

[Brigid]

3. We have our winner already.

Doesn't everybody have at least half a dozen homes?

[roguevalley]

16. some wag on huffpost said he meant for them to take their

car elevator to the top where it would be dry.

[WinkyDink]

20. It's a woman.

[pokerfan]

23. LOL

Go to one of your other homes and sell off some of your stock a little at a time if it comes to that.

[Pryderi]

2. Big Gubmint. :P n/t

[Freddie]

4. Go to your nonexistent home

Call 211 and the big bad guvmimt will come and help you!
You can't make this stuff up.

[tooeyeten]

10. True

There's no phones!

[primavera]

19. He means one of her OTHER homes

What, you mean most people don't have several?

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. "go back to your submerged house and make a phone call"???????

Nice of Jindal to speak up and offer assistance, wasn't it?
Oh....wait......he didn't.

[magical thyme]

22. no, no, no! not the submerged house. One of the other houses.

Because, you know, everybody has at least 5 or 6.

[Ikonoklast]

6. Fuckwitt Mitt, The Clueless Wonder.

POS.

[valerief]

7. "Mittfalca, my phone is underwater, too. You are nothing but an asshole." nt

[mgarr]

8. calling 211 if you don't have a phone or a home

Mr. Romney let the cat out of the bag yesterday, when he misspoke and called our country "a company."

No mere slip of the tongue. It is a mindset, a way of life.

It follows that the American people, at least the little ones, are employees--with luck, working only for minimum wage with no benefits and, for Pete's sake, no unions to make the first two less likely.

Thus, telling this woman to go home and phone 211 makes perfect sense. Romney too used government subsidies and loopholes at Bain whenever he could find them. Only a stupid man turns down resources, for Pete's sake.

Only thing, the woman had better make that phone call soon. If Romney is elected, that emergency number and resources behind it, will be disconnected. Only the little people need such resources. The others live on hills, well above the floodwaters.

Romney. He's running for president, for Pete's sake.

[tooeyeten]

9. Hey Mitt, ET can't "phone home"

No home, no phone, dumbass.

[tooeyeten]

11. Following Clint Eastwood

"Hey Mitt,you and your horse!"

[nolabear]

12. "Here's a quarter. Call someone who cares."

The man cried at his own inauguration, and now this.

[itsrobert]

13. Hello, this is Peggy

How may I help you?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. In 2011, Romney said Fed disaster assistance "immoral" in time of deficits from corporate assistance

In 2011, Rmoney said that giving out Federal disaster assistance was immoral in a time of high deficits. Those high deficits were caused by propping up corporations who needed disaster assistance after the Bush catastrophe.

Much more at this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021240887

[roaminronin]

15. Invisible Obama

Invisible Home, same thing.

[LiberalEsto]

17. Let them eat cake!

He might as well have said that to the flood victims, for all the good it does them.

[Sophiegirl]

18. Maybe use a cellphone.

Oh, wait. In their hurry to escape with their lives, they forgot to grab their cellphones. But I'm sure if they go to their homes, with water up to their rooftops, and can find them, then spend a week or more drying them out...they MAY work and they can call for help.

That's all good, right?

[Heather MC]

21. everybody should have at least 2 homes

I personally have my condo, and I have my tent I keep in the basement for emergencies.

which reminds me I need to get on my renovations
I've been planning on adding a portable toilet and shower