Blanco had to "leave a message " at White House before talking to bush!

[AnnInLa]

The day the storm hit, asked President Bush for "everything you've got." But almost nothing arrived, and she couldn't wait any longer. So she called the White House and demanded to speak to the President. George Bush could not be located, two Louisiana officials told Time, so she asked for chief of staff Andrew Card, who was also unavailable. Finally, after being passed to another office or two, she left a message with DHS adviser Frances Frago Townsend. She waited hours but had to make another call herself before she finally got Bush on the line. "Help is on the way," he told her.

From http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/11/14128/8887

via Time Magazine, reg required

[okieinpain]

1. they are going to bury her. she better get her pr people in gear or

she will be the gop poster child in 06 for what is wrong with dems.

[Bonobo]

2. He doesn't have a cell phone?

[notadmblnd]

4. even if he did, could he figure out how to work the buttons?

nt

[kenny blankenship]

3. Gov. Blanco and her people have to do a much better job

telling their story about trying to get the Bush WH to take Katrina seriously. The Preznit's minions are everywhere telling their preferred version. It is a political 'blame game' and if you don't play you're guaranteed to lose, since the Bush WH has the referees and the reporters in its pocket.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Very true. She better not leave it for the media to tell her side.

[bluedeminredstate]

5. He was busy dammit!

Playing with your X-Box is HARD WORK!!! As if a little wind is more important than some games and a nap...

:eyes:

[complain jane]

7. Hey, he has a life to live, and he's gonna live it.

He was probably "outside exercising" because that's what "the people want" from their president.

[whistle]

8. George "AWOL" Bush...AWOL when he was with the National Guard

....AWOL throughout much of his first seven months as president in 2001, AWOL on 9-11, AWOL for some 395 days from the beginning of his presidency until and up to the beginning of Katrina as it went across South Florida on up the Gulf until it reached striking distance of the Gulf coast.....then fucking AWOL from the first calls of help from the people in the Gulf and local and state leaders.

My question to Mr. Bush is why? Why did you not feel that you were also the president of these people in the Gulf and therefore need to avail yourself when they called? Is your base of multi-billionaires your only concern? Are the huge military industrial complex corporations ALL you feel responsible to? Do you care more for the Saudis and corrupt politicians of the middle east, then for American citizens and the poorer people who live in this country?

You fucking hypocrite. You elitist bastard. You spoiled rich fraternity brat. You arrogant self righteous snob. You believe only that privilege is your birthright to claim as you see fit, not to earn or demonstrate your worthiness of. You are an American by birth right most certainly. I don't believe you have ever done anything in your life George "AWOL" Bush that gives you the right to claim you are an true American in your heart and in your soul. Even the speeches you bungle your way through are written by others who tell you what to say and how to act.

George "AWOL" Bush, you are a shell of emptiness, filled with horse-shit and putrid sludge instead of blood. Your odor has to be more vile than anything coming out of the toxic, putrid foul mix of sludge being pumped out of the flooded city of New Orleans

[applegrove]

9. They are Freaks!