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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 09:37 PM
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Katrina Underscores Bush's Isolated Style
All factors combined, Knight-Ridder's reporters have reported on Iraq with a more askance eye and more suspicion of military control of the press than perhaps any other news service. It looks as if they're applying similar standards to what's happening in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0909-03.htm

Bush did not visit with any angry evacuees in New Orleans. As Katrina approached, Bush and his top aides spent days apparently unaware that New Orleans might be flooded - despite many warnings, some from inside his own administration. Afterwards, he heaped praise on officials responsible for the slow and initially disorganized disaster-relief efforts. His aides dismiss demands that Bush hold someone accountable for failure, saying that's merely a distracting "blame game."

None of this should be a surprise. Bush has a long record of avoiding critics, rewarding loyalty even in the face of failure and shunning - even punishing - those who disagree with him. It's a management style that shapes how he governs - disdaining compromise with Democrats in Congress, for example - and one that brushes off whole sectors of the American electorate.

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His style of isolating himself from unwelcome voices pleases his core supporters, who don't want him to compromise, but it sacrifices the broader public appeal that helped Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton weather second-term setbacks. One new poll, from the independent Pew Research Center, suggests he is losing support even from Republicans and conservatives.

To Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., the Bush administration's response to Katrina suggested "a real sense of arrogance. Loyalty and never admitting a mistake matters more than the truth. It has a Nixon feel to me."
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 05:32 AM
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1. "isolated" style? Try INCOMPETENT
he was NEVER QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 05:58 AM
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2. He belongs in solitary confinement
for the effects of his "isolated" style...
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