Bush Ignored Blanco, Reached out to Barbour

[AnnInLa]

sorry of dupe: this from Aravosis:


Bush Ignored Blanco, Reached Out To Barbour
by Michael in New York - 9/14/2005 11:42:00 AM

USA Today does a rundown of the two governors most affected by Katrina. Blanco was front and center in calling for more aid and expressing displeasure. Barbour seemed in remarkable denial as he insisted on TV that Bush was doing great -- even while reporters were saying Gulfport and Biloxi Mississippi (just to name two) were in desperate need and FEMA was in short supply or not in sight at all. Buried in the article is this telling contrast:

says that two days after Katrina, desperate for help, she couldn't get through to Bush and didn't get a callback; hours later, she tried again, and they talked....

Barbour hasn't had to wait hours to talk to Bush. In fact, Barbour said in an interview with USA TODAY, the president called him three to four times in the wake of Katrina. "I never called him. He always called me," he said.

Mr. President, is it true in the first five days of this disaster that you reached out to the Republican governor of Mississippi and called him three times? Is it true you NEVER called the Democratic governor of Louisiana during the first five days of this national tragedy that had hit her state harder than any other?

www.americablog/blogspot.com Click thru to USA Today

[politick]

1. Well maybe

he didn't have her phone number. Ever think of that? The rolodex is so burdensome and funny looking -- it's easy to just get lost in the cascading cards, going round and round, making a pleasing flop-flip-flip sound, almost hypnotically -- while those Blackberrys just have teensy tiny little screens. And the stylus, so easily misplaced, is better used for cleaning fingernails and getting to hard to reach itchy spots, anyway.

He's only human, guys!

[Be Brave]

2. Typical of Bush to remain partisan in the middle of a catastrophe.

I cannot express my disgust enough.

[Neocondriac]

3. Reaching out to Barbour ?

...that reach was dramatically reduced because Gov. Barbour had his nose jammed up Bushies butt!

[kenny blankenship]

4. I certainly hope some network reporter demands clarification on this

from the WH spokeshole--or directly from the horse's ass if possible.