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[Amerigo Vespucci]

Former Aides: Bush never recovered from Katrina
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Dec 30, 2008 12:00pm

http://crooksandliars.com/node/24917



Former Bush aides go on record saying that Hurricane Katrina was the "tipping point" of George Bush's presidency and that, after the federal government's pathetic response, he couldn't recover. Unfortunately for the residents of the gulf coast, President Bush wasn't the only one.

AP:

Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.

"Katrina to me was the tipping point," said Matthew Dowd, Bush's pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. "The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter."

[TahitiNut]

1. "Helluva job, Brownie."

:puke:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. The tipping point...the moment in which we KNEW he DID NOT CARE...

It's amazing, really...the entire legacy can be summed up in one word:

"Katrina."

:patriot:

[TahitiNut]

6. Ironic. It was a blow-job what did him in.

:shrug:

[Turbineguy]

2. Pity the poor man in the big airplane....

Send not to know for whome the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

[BeatleBoot]

3. Katrina brought Bush's Gross Incompetence into Everyone's Living Room

Something we had been screaming about since the Selection of 2000.

Sad to think we were vindicated by a disaster exacerbated by his malfeasance.

And Mother Bush, ".. why should I bother my beautiful mind..."

America at it's worst, all wrapped up in a neat little package called the Bush Family.

[alphafemale]

4. That was in many ways his "pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain moment."

But I think the facade started to really fall apart during the Schievo fiasco.

After Katrina it was just unrecoverable. That's when more of the anchors became repulsed by him too.