Remember that crap about a "kinder, gentler nation"?

I realize that we're about a day behind on this one, but for those who haven't seen it, this is an actual, honest-to-Murgatroid quote from former First Lady Barbara Bush, talking about the Katrina victims who have been transported to Houston:

"Almost everyone I’ve talked to wants to move to Houston."

Then she added: "What I’m hearing is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed with the hospitality.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (she chuckles)--this is working very well for them."

In a related story, The Catchpenny has learned that Mrs. Bush was seriously injured Tuesday evening when a passing airliner's nose cone became entangled in her left nostril.