Members of Bushes Party are unhappy with Katrina. Can this admin be trusted?
83621
Katrina handling was a complete diaster which still isn't being handled well but rather than spending our time blaming others I think Congress should take the insights learned from this and devise a better emergency plan which may include removing FEMA from the Homeland Security department.
184177
well, bush did say that he was prepared for katrina.  and i think homeland security or somebody like that knew the levee were gonna break.  bush took a gamble i suppose.  i bet that he must have thought that the storm wouldn't have ravaged New Orleans like that.  i mean, plenty of storms have hit the US but not this severe.
614775
You bet!  Someone had the nerve to get on here and say publicly that they love Bush!!!!!  Get a load of that!!!!!!!  I would never be dumb enough to admit to that would you?  Every county in this world hates us.  That is a very bad thing to have when the chips are down and nobody is on your side.  Kinda like the playground bully that nobody wants any problems with but if someone kicked their butt, all the kids are there to cheer them on so they can see the annihilation in person!
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I live in Slidell, LA on the northshore of Lake Ponchatrain and can tell you that the levies are barely up to the standards before Hurricane Katrina.  While politicians in the state and on the federal level complain and bicker, time is being wasted as the huirricane seaon is only a couple months away.  I have never lived in New Orleans directly but would advice people that it is not a safe place environmentally or sanitarily.  Basic power and water are not available to 35-50% of the New Orleans East and most of that area is virtually untouch since Katrina!!!  my career has directed me toward the MS Gulf Coast where I am seeing vast improvements to the area as opposed to New Orleans.  Please remember the Mississippi Gulf Coast when thinking of Katrina.  The devestation here is something that needs to be seen to believed.
580202
Well, let's see:\nHalliburton, the well connected to Bush administration company, has been overcharging the military right and left, and continues to get contracts.\nAlmost every week another Bush appointee gets into trouble for failing to perform their function, FEMA, EPA, Federal Reserve...\nK street project, which barred lobbying companies from the White House unless they hired Republican operatives.\nFailure to include or even media attacks against press that write negatively about Bush.\nTax cuts for the wealthy, environmental laws relaxed,political appointments for 'Pioneer' club campaign donors....\nAnd NOW we have the Bush administration claiming the right to send law enforcement into Congressional offices to search and seize.\nYep, we are well on our way.\n\nAmerica is being dismantled before our eyes.  Vote the opposition back into Congress before it's too late.  They put checks against each other that prevent this kind of shenanigans.
1134006
No. I feel that his cronies and his staff do. Bush is merely a puppet. His cronies pull his strings and Bush moves to their whims. He is at fault because as the head man he should be asking questions and I don't think he is bright enough to do this. In fact, his stupidity is what made him appealing to the Republican party. He is a mindless puppet who marches to do whatever his cronies want. He is not bright enough to ask questions or know what questions to ask.
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I can not for the life of me understand why Ray Nagin got re-elected. He failed miserably during a crisis moment in the history of New Orleans.\n\nHe is not a leader, did not take charge of the situation when leadership skills were needed.\n\nHe left all those buses to be flooded when they could have been used to haul people that had no means of leaving the city a chance to get out. He should have had them placed in strategic places to pick up those with no means of getting out and offerring them the chances with the buses.\n\nHe also blamed everyone from the President on down for his errors and mistakes.  \n\nHis job was to alert the governor that his city was in trouble and he needed help. He probably did not know or understand the procedures to get help. Once he alerted the governor the governor should have notified the president that her state was in trouble and wanted it declared a national disaster area.\n\nNone of this was done. There was complete confussion on the part of the mayor and the governor. \n\nNagin went on TV and made statements about the president when he should have been looking at himself for answers. \n\nHe had people on roof tops when they should have been taken out of the city on the buses and by the local authorities of the city headed up by the mayor.  Many Many people died because of his failed leadership. \n\nHe should have been brought up on charges, for failing to do his elected job.\n\nHe never sat up an emergency room to have his top staff members in one area so he could get up todate intelligence about the situation as it was happening.\n\nNew Orleans should be ashamed for re-electing this individual to the office of mayor again. They get what they pay for and that is one that has no leadership skills, is not a calm individual under stress. Make remarks that public officials should not make to the media about other elected officials especially the President.\n\nI hope this has been of some use to you, good luck.\n\n"FIGHT ON"
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I have never met PRESIDENT Bush, so I can't say whether I like him or not.  I'm not intellectually challenged or DEFICIENT (that's the correct spelling, answerman), and actually, I'm not even a Republican.\nHowever, I don't think many people could have led our country better the last six years, except maybe me, lol.  J/K.  I do wish we could raise FDR from the dead though, he would have been awesome right about now!  And, oh yeah, he was a Democrat, not that it matters...\nSo here's why I approve of PRESIDENT Bush as President:\nHe hasn't defended himself on Hurricane Katrina.  Everyone wants to blame him, but really, Louisiana is NOT the only state that was heavily damaged by the hurricane.  What about Mississippi?  Oh, that's right, their STATE government took care of them...and they asked for federal aid immediately.  In New Orleans, it was announced by the mayor, the senator, and the governor that they did not need federal aid the day after the hurricane.  Yet after all hell broke loose, the National Guard was sent in...and quickly.\nThe wire-tapping was a great idea.  Too bad the media got ahold of it.  Why was it a great idea?  Because it allowed the government to listen in on calls placed from known Al Qaida operatives to the US.  They were NOT listening in on Joe Schmoe telling his best friend how much p***y he got the other night, or Jane Doe telling her sister how much pot she smoked.  So, nice job media, ruining that one.  \nThe so-called "leak", which was in fact the disclosure of DECLASSIFIED information.  The CIA agent that was "outed" hadn't been a covert agent for over five years.  Yet President Bush isn't defending himself on that either.\nHe's been accused of "lying" about the WMD's, and yet hasn't defended himself.  I really wish people would get over that one, because no matter how many times they're told that the Democrats "lied", and the soldiers over there (and who were there in the last three years) that have found evidence that there HAD been WMD's also "lied"...they won't listen.\nI could say much more on how he's NOT a bad president, but I'm not going to waste my time.  If some of these people REALLY wanted to know, they would watch FahrenHYPE 9/11 (which disproves much of Michael Moore's lovely\n"documentary"), stop watching Loose Change, and maybe take a look at truthorfiction.com, snopes.com, popularmechanics.com (and search for the story about debunking the 9/11 conspiracy myths), or www.strategypage.com (and search for the story on the War in Iraq).\nHere's what I like about President Bush:\nHe's true to his word, especially away from the cameras.  I've heard many stories about how he shows his respect for our Armed Forces members, has taken the time to pray with someone just because they asked him, given hugs and comfort to those who have lost loved ones in 9/11 and the War...\nOverall, he shows his integrity in private.  That's what matters most to me.  I couldn't care less about how well he speaks (or doesn't, as we all know is true), because that's his public face.\nI like the fact that he illegalized partial-birth abortion within his first few months in office, yet has left abortion alone other than that, even though he feels it's wrong.\nI love the fact that he doesn't listen to the war protesters, and instead listens to the soldiers on the ground.  Most of them say we CAN'T pull out...and we'd better not.  Also, many of them have said that even though they were injured, they would go again and again.  I saw that on, if I remember correctly, CBS news, which, as most conservatives know, leans to the left.  I've also talked to many soldiers myself, and most of them have told me the same thing.\nMost people that have met him say he's not the "bumbling idiot" many think he is.  He's actually ver
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#1 The city of New Orleans was allocted the $$ years ago to fix the lEVEE's. Their corrupt goverment spent it elsewhere.\nThe mayor did a crappy job during Katrina. He should of had the city evacuated. He had plenty of notice. We all knew! The governor was too busy crying about it. Literally crying and then when all was said and done she blamed who else? The President of course. But as the mayor said it will be a chocolate city again! I wouldn't live there if you paid my rent and fed me!
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No. The worst part about the whole thing is that he thinks hes right. He probably doesnt think what you and I consider mistakes are actually mistakes. Although he did surprise me by taking the blame for Katrina last year...I guess he can notice his own f*ck-ups if theyre big enough.\n\n\nPeace
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Katrina was the turning point in this country. Seeing the habitual lack of care for humanity is what sent his poll numbers to where they are now. \n\nBarbara Bush's words: "So many people in the arena here were under privileged anyway, this is really working out quite well for them".\n\nThe family doesn't care about anyone without a thick wallet. Its time we started realizing that, both true conservatives and liberals alike.
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The vehemence with which the "loyal" opposition has opposed George Bush from the moment he won the nomination to the very present is not in any way normal behavior for a group or class of people. It seems to me there is a link-step mentality at play whereby no righteous democrat can admit the right of President Bush to his office. This is a dangerous thing. This hatred has tainted the entire country aided by the media and the talking heads of the left as they spread the notion that Bush is not  legitimate. People who do not analyze the source or content of the news they receive take it at face value and their perception is skewed against Bush, the War in Iraq, and just about anything else the democrats in their angry rant to regain power broadcast against the President. These same individuals then are not just cry babies-- twice defeated by what they consider unfair elections-- they're a dangerous element in an open society where dissent is meant to have some purpose or reason other than vindication and self-aggrandizement. Should the democrats regain power in the next election, you can be sure the same people who did not fairly consider what they saw or read will rue the day. I believe that, for all of this hate, which must affect him, President Bush has been a "President of all the people," one who does not kowtow to pundits or polls, but knows in his own mind what to do for the people who he truly serves.
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THEIR REPUTATION HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY BUSH
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It is interesting how some of the people who responded are going to try to blame President Bush for the fact that the troops feel that they have been stabbed in the back by the media and the Democratic party.\n\nMaybe the Democratic party needs to admit that the troops do not trust them and come up with a way to rebuild their credibility?\n\nIMO the most telling comment about the election is the fact that Al Queda sees a Democrat victory as good for their goals.
691947
Again I have to ask you to seek for professional help! It is known and well established fact that fanatic Bush lovers end up in an asylum! Please seek for help! It is for your own good!!!
389748
It all depends on who the leaders are. In Bush's case he has shown that his judgement is not meant to be trusted.
690887
You must mean a different G.W. Bush as our current occupant of the White House is not MENSA material.  When you believe that a supernatural being talks directly to you and tells you how to run the world, well Houston we have a problem.