Lott chastises Bush for forgetting about the recovery efforts in MS

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Posted on Sat, Dec. 03, 2005
Lott chastises Bush

State not part of U.S. recovery

By GEOFF PENDER
SUN HERALD

President Bush said Friday that the future of the U.S. economy is "as bright as it's been in a long time," but U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., promptly issued a statement that Bush might be forgetting something.

Mississippi.

Lott urged Bush "not to leave Mississippi behind in the nation's recovery," and recalled Bush's promise to South Mississippians on his first visit after Katrina on Sept. 2.

"The president said, 'The good news is - and it's hard for some to see it now - that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. My attitude is, if it's not going exactly right, we're going to make it go exactly right. If there's problems, we're going to address the problems,'" Lott quoted Bush.

Lott said, "Mr. President, the recovery is not going exactly right. Three months after Katrina, 42 percent of the travel trailers required for those still homeless have not been delivered by FEMA. Winter is coming to Mississippi, and too many people are still living in tents or carports. Three months after the hurricane, only an estimated one-quarter of the storm's debris has been removed in most areas, and too many neighborhoods have had none removed."

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More @ http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/13317872.htm

Lott states that of the "only 314 federal business loans had been approved for Mississippi, out of 7,050 applications."

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1. He said a lot of surprising things on "Fresh Air" this week too...

...surprising for Lott, that is, due to his unquestioning support of * in the past.

Here's the link, the other part of the program is well worth listening to also, and the Lott interview refers back to the other interview:

<http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=12-01-2005&view=storyview>

Lott's 'Life in Politics'

Listen to this story...(at link above)

Fresh Air from WHYY, December 1, 2005 · Trent Lott, the Republican senator from the state of Mississippi, was the Senate majority leader from June 1996 to January 2001. He is the author of the memoir Herding Cats: A Life in Politics.

After being forced out of his seat as majority leader, Lott has watched from the sideline as the GOP agenda has run into recent troubles -- among them, the failed Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination and turmoil over the Iraq war.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5033570>

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2. LBN thread discussing this article.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1963511