25 Congressional Democrats were on the Gulf today and not ONE headline

[Rose Siding]

The trip gets one paragraph in the McClatchy piece about Bush's trip:

The main effort was a three-day trip to the region starting Monday by 25 House Democrats and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the House minority leader. Their schedule included tours, town hall meetings and daily news conferences.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15383393.htm

[Patchuli]

1. I would like to know why!

What is this? Downplay the Dems' efforts in this country to headline the lack of effort by Repubs?

[Rose Siding]

2. They get a mention in the Post

where the headline bills them merely as "critics"

snip>
Democratic lawmakers and liberal advocacy groups flocked to the Gulf Coast in Bush's wake to offer their own, vastly more critical assessments of how well Bush and the federal government have performed in rebuilding communities swamped by Katrina.

In an interview, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast is going "not very well," and asserted that federal agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration are botching the delivery of federal funds to individuals and small enterprises. "Yes, the recovery is underway," she said. "It is still painfully slow. We have unnecessarily lost so much because the system is overburdened."

Landrieu has been joined by Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) for parts of what she has termed a "Hope and Recovery" tour for the region.

Another prominent Democrat, Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), inspected damaged sections of New Orleans along with other lawmakers on Monday, and predicted that Americans will be "very surprised to know this recovery is way, way behind what their expectations would have been."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082800072_2.html

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[Monkeyman]

4. Bush was in Miss. They don't count they where in New Orleans

[eccles12]

5. It's still the corporate media don't forget. Owned and operated by the

Republican neocons.

[blm]

6. I can top that - the summer before 2004 election, Kerry told Gulf audience

that their region needed a 14billion dollar investment ASAP by the federal government to strengthen the coastlines.

No headlines.