"Some things are working extremely well" -Laura Bush

[Panda1]

She was just on CNN from Lafayette, LA.
Praise for the people helping NO citizens who had been brought to Lafayette.

"I think what you're seeing is how a city pulls itself together."
"I want to thank you very much congressman, all the red cross volunteers...I wanna urge people who want to volunteer try to do that and if you can't do it this week, next week..."
"They're registering children for school here..will start on Wednesday...get your children in school...gives them a sense of normalcy...go ahead and enroll your children in school...I want to thank the people of Texas in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio..for taking people in."

(Told a tale of a high school boy who has been "adopted" by two big football players at a Texas high school.)

"Little city within a city...over 6,000 people here...it's really amazing those logistics...in such a quick and humane way"

Q-Do you think the response has been adequate?

"I think that's a serious problem...the response is more than adequate here"
"There is a huge outpouring (charities)...and that's very important...we need to keep those donations up"

"This doesn't look like what we're seeing on television"

"This response is not an adequate response, we know we can do it better"

"Bad things are not going on here" (in Lafayette at the Cajun Dome)

[hatrack]

1. Yes, my flight on Air Force One was oh so comfy, and the coffee was great!

In fact, the time I was able to nap on the plane was incredibly refreshing, and the new hairstyle I'm sporting really put a spring in my step.

Some things are working extremely well!

[Hidden Stillness]

2. Please Tell Me This is a Dream

All these quotes from the two drunks about how nice it all is, and how fun when they rebuild, how it'll be even better, and how fun to all pull together, while people are dying in the streets and being left there, with no food or water, ignored--God, make it stop!