Katrina-Blessing for Bush?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

With so many valid targets available (FEMA, OHS) could the Bush group actually be happy that the hurricane occured?
Or that there are many other faces on the air that take the blame for bad or worse planning?


Not one question about how badly the Constitution writing is going in Iraq.
Not one question about how Afghanistan is falling apart.
Not one question about Bush's other failed policies.
Not one question about his recess appointments.

[Teaser]

1. Uh, no.

nt

[OhioChick]

2. This only ADDS

to everything else he's got going wrong.

[demo dutch]

3. No this will drag him down big time! the economic consequences

of the Port of New Orleans shut down among other things is major. It affects the entire country! Wait until the death toll come out!

[napi21]

4. NO! Those stories will be back, but now he's ruined his rep at home too!

I can't believe anyone in La. will ever vote Pub again! Even if they got out of there in time, they will realize that everything they had was destroyed because of lack of response!

[marmar]

5. No.

He's taking a good beating on this one. The New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek - all the big editorial boards are handing him his lunch on this one, and no less than he deserves.
The chickens eventually come home to roost.

[Inland]

6. Another in the theory that Bush drowns out bad news with even worse news

Rove drowned out downing street, Iraq casualties drowned out Rove, civil war possibilities drown out casualities, and now a botched emergency managment....

Look, unless the news is bettter for Bush or irrelevant, like the michael jackson trial, then it doesn't help Bush. In fact, I think it's cumulative: all these previous shit facts about Bush aren't forgotten, just not on the front page.

[Fight_n_back]

7. No, the Republicans may have lost those states for a generation

In New Orleans the engineers fixing the levees are calling the city "Lake George".

Everyone down there knows that he cut the funding to fix those levees. they also can see that his administration of Homeland Security is rediculous. If that had been a bomb and not a hurrican tracked for a week what would we be doing now?

[never_get_over_it]

9. And hopefully several states around LA, AL and MS

if this doesn't do this fucker in nothing will....

I think the numbers are going to be worse than 9-11 - so how can any one President have so many Americans die under his watch and he and his party get away with it - like I said if this doesn't do it NOTHING will

oh unless he gets a BJ in the Oval Office - oh no that wouldn't do it either becasue the repunks are the world's biggest hypocrits

[MojoXN]

21. Wow! I just checked Lake George on Wikipedia...

Go take a look!

[seabeyond]

8. no way, this is going to take him down. EVERYONE is disgusted

i am talking my repugs. i am able to say the ugliest things about bush today, and they are shaking their head yes, face in disgust

this is ot good for bush. wont be his 9/11 and dont let it be anything but....

[jillan]

10. Listening to Big Eddie - the ICU at the hospital has not had

electricity since SUNDAY!!

This is not good for the bushiter!!!!!!!!!!

[pinto]

11. I think the lack of planning here will be put on the Administration's door

Color me naive, but this sure seems a clear federal planning disaster as well as a local natural disaster...I think a lot of questions are going to be raised about the levee monies, the absence of timely NG support, and general federal response in light of the likely/possible hurricane damage to a city that sits below sea level which was cited as one of three "national catastrophes" in FEMA studies.

[Cleita]

12. It's criminal negligence at the very least.

Bush, Cheney and the FEMA guy should be arrested and charged.

[Field Of Dreams]

13. No

The clothes are off the Emperor. Too many people at home have been directly effected and it's all being streamed live, in color, and unedited right into much of the public's living room.

[tex-wyo-dem]

14. People who are still supporting W are pretty simple minded...

but they can't ignore the images of death and distruction on TV in the good ole U S of A, and they most certainly can't ignore the price at the gas pump.

I think the last few days will really erode much of *'s core supporters. When these other stories start coming back it will only add to idiot son's poll miseries.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. People who can ignore the death in Iraq can't ignore this

This is in your face coverage of death and destruction. And, just to make it worse, it's on American soil.

This is reaching those people who could pretend that Iraq was better off after bush invaded. They can't pretend NO is better off thanks to bush cutting funding.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Are you completely insane?

Or just kidding?

This is an unmitigated disaster for Bush, and highlights his incompetence where it really counts to most Americans, right here at home. Questions about the Iraqi constitution? Very few people give a fuck about the Iraqi Constitution. But if you tell people that a major American city is completely out of control, and that it was preventable, everybody cares. Recess appointments? Are you so swallowed up in partisan nonsenses that you think people care more about recess appointments than about the destruction of New Orleans, and everyday folks getting on TV in Gulfport MS saying "Where the hell is Bush?" Are you that delusional?

[Biased Liberal Media]

17. Oh no, I think you're sadly mistaken

this is going to HURT him. There is anger and upheaval over the time it's taking to help these people.

[walldude]

19. While I hope you are right

the righties on talk radio are blaming this on the dems already. Laura Ingram was so obnoxious this morning if I could have smacked her through the radio I would have.
Everytime I think it's the end for Bush, he gets out of it. He's the goddam energizer bunny.

[Cha]

18. NO ..THIS IS bush's

WATERLOO!

Exposes his stupid ass for what he really is..on national tv.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. There is no way the Republicans can try to spin this

This is radioactive. If they try to point the finger elsewhere (FEMA, OHS, etc.) to take the heat off, everyone will see right through it. This disaster has hit far too close to home and for once the American people are interested in digesting every detail involving this news story.

[1932]

22. If America falls apart, they'll blame the storm.

It could let them off the hook.

I wonder if Republicans did this with the dust storms during the depression (which were a result of bad policy, no?).