George W: How can we buy some votes?

George: I just don't know what we can do to start winning some support as we go into the congressional elections across the country.

Karl Rove: Listen you idiot, this is easy, easy, easy. We don't give a damn about balancing the budget or the deficit spinning out of control. Give the people some candy, that is, give them money! It works like a tax cut! Give them money and they'll be able to buy more Hummers and they'll show their appreciation by voting for more GOP "budget cutters!"

Ha, these people are so stupid! Why they even believe that Osama and Saddam were partners in 9/11. Whoa boy, combine a stupid president who'll say anything I say with a huge portion of the electorate that is too busy watching reality shows to think about their vote, and voila, elect more Republicans!!

AP: White House to hand out $800M to combat drought

POSTED: 3:55 p.m. EDT, August 29, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration will give nearly $800 million to farmers and ranchers devastated by drought, The Associated Press has learned.

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns planned to announce the aid Tuesday afternoon in South Dakota.

The drought aid includes:

• $50 million in block grants for hard-hit states.

• $18 million from emergency conservation funds.

• $11 million from a grassland conservation program.

• The department would accelerate $700 million in planned payments to cotton, grain, sorghum and peanut farmers.

Two sources confirmed the details on condition of anonymity because Johanns had not yet announced it.

The administration has resisted a $4 billion drought-aid plan in Congress because it would go only to those who already get government subsidies, about four in 10 farmers. House leaders and President Bush have opposed the aid, but senators in June added the aid to a farm spending bill.

Drought has hit farmers in western Corn Belt states -- Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota -- particularly hard.

Last month was the hottest July since the Dust Bowl in 1936. Dryness also approached records in many parts of the country, which saw the driest conditions from May through June since 1988.