Focus on the Fundies: hurricane edition

Courtesy Amy Langfield, this collection of Stupid quotes about Katrina and its aftermath, including this doozy (no. 13):

"We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." -- Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists

To be fair, Baker posted a clarification on his website:

...What I remember expressing, in a private conversation with a housing advocate and member of my staff, was that 'we have been trying for decades to clean up New Orleans public housing to provide decent housing for residents, and now it looks like God is finally making us do it.'

Obviously I have never expressed anything but the deepest concern about the suffering that this terrible catastrophe has caused for so many in our state, and my comment was a demonstration of my frustration over this unacceptable longstanding inability to improve the living conditions of New Orleans public housing residents.

Nice try, but I have the feeling you just painted a giant electoral bulls-eye on your head for November 2006. Comments like this are all too reminiscent of the insane prophecy of Travis Bickle from the 1976 film "Taxi Driver":

Whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.