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GOP Pride: Top 5 Ignorant Moments the GOP Can be Proud of

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Number Three: Bush: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" - Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit and destroyed much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, President Bush tried to cover up is administration's poor response to the disaster by claiming nobody could have seen this coming. Mr. Bush said "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

Of course, just a week earlier Bush had discussed the possibility that the levees may not, in fact, hold up. So in this instance, G.W. was actually able to display an ignorance of his own thoughts, actions and comments from just a week prior.

What is more impressive is that Bush's commitment to staying ignorant was so strong that he was willing to disregard the fact that he was actually correct about something and move forward in blissful ignorance of his own words. Pretty impressive. The GOP must be proud.

Number Two: Mark Penn doesn't know how the Democratic Primaries work - Coming in as our runner up, Mark Penn is actually a Democrat, but a Democrat that Republicans can be proud of...

See the other four moments at: http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stonecipher_report/2008/08/its-like-these.htm...
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