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September 13, 2005 08:00 AM UTC

Bush Takes Blame for Katrina

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Interesting move by the White House today. President Bush came out and admitted full responsibility for the failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina.

President Bush on Tuesday said he takes responsibility for the federal government’s failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina.

“Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility,” Bush said during a joint news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Bush said he wants to know what went right and what went wrong so that he can determine whether the United States was prepared for another storm, or an attack.

With plummeting approval ratings and increased scrutiny over the federal government’s handling of the relief efforts, the White House might have figured that they were in too deep to continue to try to deflect blame elsewhere. This might be a good political move because it lessens the blow of criticism aimed toward Bush. The significance of this move shouldn’t be underestimated because the White House very rarely comes right out and says, “We screwed up.”

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45 thoughts on “Bush Takes Blame for Katrina”

  1. This shows the President is a good man! He whacked that idiot Brown, put the right people in charge and is stepping up to do the right thing.

    In a year or two the responce might be remembered as slow, but the recovery (with the right people in charge) will be remembered as a success and that is the legacy that will stick in most American’s minds.

  2. This is hilarious. I fully expected this. The same Republicans who had been fighting like crazy on this site to say that Bush was not responsible for the problems are the first ones to commend him for admitting responsibility. Which is it? You can’t have it both ways.

  5. President Bush is failing in his Presidency miserably … his latest admission only proves that Senator Al Gore and Senator John Kerry would have been much improved choices to lead our nation.  Too many mistakes by President Bush.  He divided the nation and has caused so much harm from his loyalist right wing agenda.  President Bush has certainly placed himself into the bucket of the worst President in the history of the United States.  I did not expect anything less from a “C” Yale Law School student and Cheerleader.  He simply is a terrible leader, but I will give him some credit for finally admission that he indeed is no GOD. 

    (laughing)

  6. “It’s the difference between the guy who fumbles the ball and the guy who picks it up and runs in the touchdown smart guy.”

    What the hell does that mean? You can’t have it both ways. Either Bush was responsible or he wasn’t, but you can’t defend him both ways. You can’t defend him and say it wasn’t his fault, and then when he admits it was his fault, you turn around and defend him for admitting it. Which is it?

    Learn to think for yourself instead of marching off like a lemming. Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound when you completely reverse course in your defense of Bush?

  7. Er, guys, that article does not say what you say it says. You say that Bush accepts full responsibility for the failures, but go on to quote him accepting responsibility for the federal government’s failures.

    Those are not the same thing. Bush is *obviously* responsible for the federal government’s failures, because he is the chief executive of the federal government. That said, the federal government’s responsibilities in a disaster are minimal: There’s a reason that states hold both the police power and command of the National Guard, and why Louisiana’s emergency powers act gives virtually all meaningful authority to the Governor.

    If Governor Blanco stepped up and said she was responsible for all the failures of state government (which she is, by default), that wouldn’t mean she’s taking full responsible for all failures. Just those in agencies under her charge.

  8. “If Governor Blanco stepped up and said she was responsible for all the failures of state government (which she is, by default), that wouldn’t mean she’s taking full responsible for all failures. Just those in agencies under her charge.”

    That’s weird.  Even the federal government says Blanco did her job.
    http://www2.dccc.org/docs/conyersgaokatrina.pdf

    Now arguments blaming her are simpy partisan hackery at its worst, with no basis in fact. 

    It is awesome how many “lawyers” are on this site quoting law, federal guidelines and local disaster plans, and then having the temerity to try and interpret it for everyone on this board.  Unless you have a law degree and practice administrative law, you have zero credibility.

  11. whatever, um… “whatever”

    What can I say, I’m a fan of the Pres. On the other hand I kind of broke from the party line last week by labeling Mike Brown for the idiot that he is.

    Bush thought he had the right people in the right job before the storm hit. Afterwards he found out otherwise and took steps to fix the situation… Wow, what a concept.

    So what’s up with you “whatever”? I’m the only REP on this site who has been on Brown’s case for the last two weeks… Why you going after me? You one of Mike Brown’s former stable boys frustrated and in tears because your old boss was found out to be an idiot?

  12. Iron Mike, myself, many others here have agreed all along that W made mistakes, as well as the state and local’s.  Check for yourself. 

    Now, I’m expecting all the lib’s to demand an apology..”what he said wasn’t enough”, all that crap to come down the pike. 

    Regardless, no matter what this President does, it will never be enough to please the left, EVEN if he does what they request, there are plain examples of that already out there…

  13. Yeah, you got it, I work for Brownie and was sent home with my tail between my legs. 

    I just am a guy who agrees with teddet that you can’t have it both ways. First, Bush & Co. claim no responsibility for the failure, they fingerpoint w/ the locals, and nothing sticks.  Then they decide well it’s time for plan B, let’s just have the common decency to admit responsibility for the poor response.  Too bad it took them that long, and only after the first plan didn’t work.

  14. I love Iron Mike’s republican spin skills! Follow the party line!

    First:
    He’s not to blame!
    then:
    We’ve found a deserving and willing scapegoat! Damn, he resigned before we could fire him!
    Now:
    We’ve got the bad players out of the game and now we’re the game’s heroes scoring touchdowns!!!!

  15. Iron Mike –

    You’re a spin-master.  And, that concept may actually become a bad apple after this Administration … no one will want the lies, people will want the truth.  The country is beginning to get tired of the childish behavior.  The Republicans are earning their label as liars and cheats … not too good for the future of the Republican Party. 

    Peter

  16. Bush is an idiot and will only be remembered for his total lack of respect for people like: blacks, foreigners, people with disabilities, the poor, single mothers, and I can go on and on.

    VOTE YES on C and D.

  17. Keith —

    Just as I predicted, charges are beginning in reference to Katrina.  Maybe, you have not heard about the “Negligence Homicide” charges against the couple in New Orleans who sent away rescue opportunities for 34 elderly men and women, who died from the heat and dyhedration the day after the Hurricane.  It is just not too sensible to allow old elderly people to die, when people wanted to help them days in advance of the storm.  In this regard, I am now certain that charges will be levied (sorry for the pun) against Mr. Brown, for his refusal to allow 3 trucks full of water to the Superdome and Convention Center. 

    Mr. Brown has committed a terrible act of negligence.  Many people died, by thousands of others suffered long term painful experiences, that could have been minimized with some compassion.  This is America, this is not Iraq … we are 1st World nation that has incredible wealth.  We cannot afford to have a civil war breakout in our country … indeed, this example provides evidence on how (IF) we were to forget about our domestic responsiblities, placing too much weight toward foriegn policies, we could lose our reputation and internal beliefs that we are a God Blessed Country.

    Peter

  18. Keith –

    THIS WILL ALSO LIKELY BRING CHARGES, RACISM. (WWW.CNN.COM)

    NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — As the heart of a hurricane-ravaged New Orleans filled with sewage-tainted floodwaters and corpses, Mayor Ray Nagin urged people to cross a bridge leading to the dry lands of the city’s suburban west bank.

    But some evacuees who tried that route told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” and “News Night with Aaron Brown” that they were met by police with shotguns who refused to allow them into Gretna, a nearby town on the other side.

    The evacuees blamed the incident on racism, but Gretna’s police chief said his town was in lockdown and was no better equipped to handle evacuees than New Orleans.

    With food and water dwindling at the Louisiana Superdome and the city’s convention center and the promise of buses unrealized, New Orleans police directed one group across the bridge toward the city’s west bank — and Gretna, said Larry Bradshaw, one of the evacuees.

    “We were told by the commander at the police command post … that we should cross that bridge, and there would be buses waiting to take us out,” he said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

    “We walked, probably 200 people, about a two-hour trek,” Tim Sheer, another evacuee, told CNN’s “News Night with Aaron Brown.” “We got to the top of the bridge. They stopped us with shotguns.

    “We had people in wheelchairs, we had people in strollers, people on crutches, so we were a slow-moving group,” said Bradshaw. “And we didn’t think anything when we saw the deputies there. Then all of a sudden we heard shooting.”

  19. 09/14/05: An article/opinion piece in the Grand Junction Free Press, as follows:
    “Nancy Pelosi should be flogged. So should New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and everyone else trying to make political hay on the backs of Hurricane Katrina?s victims.

    “The congresswoman from San Francisco is wailing and moaning at the Bush administration for its apparent lack of action in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. OK, I?ll concede the point that picking on G. Dubya is a little like smacking around a special-ed kid in the schoolyard, which is another reason civilized people should avoid it the same way they avoid blowing their noses on one another?s family crests.

    “But until Nancy, or Teddy Kennedy or any of the other finger pointers spends a week up to their tightly clinched keisters in swamp water with a shovel in their hands schlepping Mississippi mud out of the basement of an Algiers public housing apartment project, they have nothing to say worth listening to.

    “I suppose Mayor Nagin thought he was Moses and could part the waters before they hit The Crescent City. It?s possible Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco suffered the same delusions of grandeur. New Orleans is the nation?s poorest major city. Louisiana is a cesspool with a marketing plan. Leadership like that provided by Nagin and Blanco is the reason.

    “Pictures are still worth a thousand words. The shot of hundreds of school buses sitting idle up to their roofs in flood water tells us all we need to know about what a nincompoop Nagin is ? how unlike Rudy Giuliani he is. Commandeer the buses, fire ?em up, fill ?em up with people who want off that sinking ship, point ?em north and hit the gas. Worry about where you?re headed when you?re out of harm?s way.

    “Like the good people of the Grand Valley, there is no shortage of kind-hearted folks within range of a tank of gas of New Orleans willing to give refugees a dry place to land.

    “It?s assinine and disingenuous for Nagin to now assert that those buses were not mobilized because he couldn?t find drivers. Dozens of New Orleanians would have risen to the challenge of piloting a motor vehicle.

    “I lived along Louisiana?s Gulf Coast and have seen hurricanes. Played golf through a couple. Sipped hurricane drinks through a couple others. They don?t sneak up on you. You know when they?re coming and how big they are. You know when to choke down on a 5-iron to keep the ball down in a 90 mph wind and when to run for your life.

    “Nagin looked a television interviewer straight in the eye and said he was waiting for the Cavalry to arrive. Obviously, this short-sighted, self-absorbed corruptocrat wouldn?t know the Cavalry if it stampeded him.

    “In the wake of Katrina, emergency spending began at a breath taking $500 million a day and quickly rose to $2 billion. White House budget director Joshua Bolten says spending won?t continue at that pace, but like the partisan bickering that now surrounds the Gulf Coast, there?s no end in sight. Of course, we all know it?ll take mountains of money to clean up the mess, but it takes a remarkable learning disability to launch shiploads of taxpayer dollars into an area where bribes, kickbacks, fraud and waste are rivaled only by Third World despots and the United Nations.

    “And now reports are beginning to surface that victims marooned in the Superdome were without food and water because some misguided officials stationed at the stadium shooed away trucks containing the staples. They reportedly didn?t want any more orphans of the storm ? literal and figurative ? to come there. Food and water tend to attract the starving and thirsty.

    “We want their names. We want those responsible for issuing that order.

    “For general knot-headedness, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wins the latest Marion Barry Award. Barry was the Washington, D.C. mayor caught on a law enforcement videotape with coke spoon up his nose, and later claimed he didn?t do it. Other winners of the Marion Barry Award include Bill ?I Didn?t Have Sex With That Woman? Clinton and Ted ?I Don?t Know Anything About Any Bridge? Kennedy.

    “President Dubya declared an emergency before the storm arrived. When he asked Louisiana Gov. Blanco what else she wanted the feds to do for her state, she basically put him on hold.”

  20. This opinion article so full of lies and since when is the Grand Junction Wannabee Press taken seriously.  I guess I will just set up a newspaper tomorrow on the corner and now I can write bogus opinion articles chuck full of lies.

  21. The most dangerous man on the planet-our bungling, lying President-the international war criminal-needs to be impeached.

    President Bush: Flip-Flopper-In-Chief

    From the beginning, George W. Bush has made his own credibility a central issue. On 10/11/00, then-Gov. Bush said: “I think credibility is important.It is going to be important for the president to be credible with Congress, important for the president to be credible with foreign nations.” But President Bush’s serial flip-flopping raises serious questions about whether Congress and foreign leaders can rely on what he says.
    1. Social Security Surplus
    BUSH PLEDGES NOT TO TOUCH SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS… “We’re going to keep the promise of Social Security and keep the government from raiding the Social Security surplus.” [President Bush, 3/3/01]
    …BUSH SPENDS SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS The New York Times reported that “the president’s new budget uses Social Security surpluses to pay for other programs every year through 2013, ultimately diverting more than $1.4 trillion in Social Security funds to other purposes.” [The New York Times, 2/6/02]
    2. Patient’s Right to Sue
    GOVERNOR BUSH VETOES PATIENTS’ RIGHT TO SUE… “Despite his campaign rhetoric in favor of a patients’ bill of rights, Bush fought such a bill tooth and nail as Texas governor, vetoing a bill coauthored by Republican state Rep. John Smithee in 1995. He… constantly opposed a patient’s right to sue an HMO over coverage denied that resulted in adverse health effects.” [Salon, 2/7/01]
    …CANDIDATE BUSH PRAISES TEXAS PATIENTS’ RIGHT TO SUE… “We’re one of the first states that said you can sue an HMO for denying you proper coverage… It’s time for our nation to come together and do what’s right for the people. And I think this is right for the people. You know, I support a national patients’ bill of rights, Mr. Vice President. And I want all people covered. I don’t want the law to supersede good law like we’ve got in Texas.” [Governor Bush, 10/17/00]
    …PRESIDENT BUSH’S ADMINISTRATION ARGUES AGAINST RIGHT TO SUE “To let two Texas consumers, Juan Davila and Ruby R. Calad, sue their managed-care companies for wrongful denials of medical benefits ?would be to completely undermine’ federal law regulating employee benefits, Assistant Solicitor General James A. Feldman said at oral argument March 23. Moreover, the administration’s brief attacked the policy rationale for Texas’s law, which is similar to statutes on the books in nine other states.” [Washington Post, 4/5/04]
    3. Tobacco Buyout
    BUSH SUPPORTS CURRENT TOBACCO FARMERS’ QUOTA SYSTEM… “They’ve got the quota system in place — the allotment system — and I don’t think that needs to be changed.” [President Bush, 5/04]
    …BUSH ADMINISTRATION WILL SUPPORT FEDERAL BUYOUT OF TOBACCO QUOTAS “The administration is open to a buyout.” [White House spokeswoman Jeanie Mamo, 6/18/04]
    4. North Korea
    BUSH WILL NOT OFFER NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA INCENTIVES TO DISARM… “We developed a bold approach under which, if the North addressed our long-standing concerns, the United States was prepared to take important steps that would have significantly improved the lives of the North Korean people. Now that North Korea’s covert nuclear weapons program has come to light, we are unable to pursue this approach.” [President’s Statement, 11/15/02]
    …BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFERS NORTH KOREA INCENTIVES TO DISARM”Well, we will work to take steps to ease their political and economic isolation. So there would be — what you would see would be some provisional or temporary proposals that would only lead to lasting benefit after North Korea dismantles its nuclear programs. So there would be some provisional or temporary efforts of that nature.” [White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, 6/23/04]
    5. Abortion
    BUSH SUPPORTS A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE… “Bush said he…favors leaving up to a woman and her doctor the abortion question.” [The Nation, 6/15/00, quoting the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 5/78]
    …BUSH OPPOSES A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE “I am pro-life.” [Governor Bush, 10/3/00]
    6. OPEC
    BUSH PROMISES TO FORCE OPEC TO LOWER PRICES… “What I think the president ought to do [when gas prices spike] is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots…And the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price.” [President Bush, 1/26/00]
    …BUSH REFUSES TO LOBBY OPEC LEADERS With gas prices soaring in the United States at the beginning of 2004, the Miami Herald reported the president refused to “personally lobby oil cartel leaders to change their minds.” [Miami Herald, 4/1/04]
    7. Iraq Funding
    BUSH SPOKESMAN DENIES NEED FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE REST OF 2004… “We do not anticipate requesting supplemental funding for ’04” [White House Budget Director Joshua Bolton, 2/2/04]
    …BUSH REQUESTS ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR IRAQ FOR 2004 “I am requesting that Congress establish a $25 billion contingency reserve fund for the coming fiscal year to meet all commitments to our troops.” [President Bush, Statement by President, 5/5/04]
    8. Condoleeza Rice Testimony
    BUSH SPOKESMAN SAYS RICE WON’T TESTIFY AS ‘A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE’… “Again, this is not her personal preference; this goes back to a matter of principle. There is a separation of powers issue involved here. Historically, White House staffers do not testify before legislative bodies. So it’s a matter of principle, not a matter of preference.” [White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, 3/9/04]
    …BUSH ORDERS RICE TO TESTIFY: “Today I have informed the Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States that my National Security Advisor, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, will provide public testimony.” [President Bush, 3/30/04]
    9. Science
    BUSH PLEDGES TO ISSUE REGULATIONS BASED ON SCIENCE…”I think we ought to have high standards set by agencies that rely upon science, not by what may feel good or what sounds good.” [then-Governor George W. Bush, 1/15/00]
    …BUSH ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS IGNORE SCIENCE “60 leading scientists?including Nobel laureates, leading medical experts, former federal agency directors and university chairs and presidents?issued a statement calling for regulatory and legislative action to restore scientific integrity to federal policymaking. According to the scientists, the Bush administration has, among other abuses, suppressed and distorted scientific analysis from federal agencies, and taken actions that have undermined the quality of scientific advisory panels.” [Union of Concerned Scientists, 2/18/04]
    10. Ahmed Chalabi
    BUSH INVITES CHALABI TO STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS…President Bush also met with Chalabi during his brief trip to Iraq last Thanksgiving [White House Documents 1/20/04, 11/27/03]
    …BUSH MILITARY ASSISTS IN RAID OF CHALABI’S HOUSE “U.S. soldiers raided the home of America’s one-time ally Ahmad Chalabi on Thursday and seized documents and computers.” [Washington Post, 5/20/04]
    11. Department of Homeland Security
    BUSH OPPOSES THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY…”So, creating a Cabinet office doesn’t solve the problem. You still will have agencies within the federal government that have to be coordinated. So the answer is that creating a Cabinet post doesn’t solve anything.” [White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, 3/19/02]
    …BUSH SUPPORTS THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY “So tonight, I ask the Congress to join me in creating a single, permanent department with an overriding and urgent mission: securing the homeland of America and protecting the American people.” [President Bush, Address to the Nation, 6/6/02]
    12. Weapons of Mass Destruction
    BUSH SAYS WE FOUND THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION…”We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories…for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.” [President Bush, Interview in Poland, 5/29/03]
    …BUSH SAYS WE HAVEN’T FOUND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION “David Kay has found the capacity to produce weapons.And when David Kay goes in and says we haven’t found stockpiles yet, and there’s theories as to where the weapons went. They could have been destroyed during the war. Saddam and his henchmen could have destroyed them as we entered into Iraq. They could be hidden. They could have been transported to another country, and we’ll find out.” [President Bush, Meet the Press, 2/7/04]
    13. Free Trade
    BUSH SUPPORTS FREE TRADE… “I believe strongly that if we promote trade, and when we promote trade, it will help workers on both sides of this issue.” [President Bush in Peru, 3/23/02]
    …BUSH SUPPORTS RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE “In a decision largely driven by his political advisers, President Bush set aside his free-trade principles last year and imposed heavy tariffs on imported steel to help out struggling mills in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, two states crucial for his reelection.” [Washington Post, 9/19/03]
    14. Osama Bin Laden
    BUSH WANTS OSAMA DEAD OR ALIVE… “I want justice. And there’s an old poster out West, I recall, that says, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive.'” [President Bush, on Osama Bin Laden, 09/17/01]
    …BUSH DOESN’T CARE ABOUT OSAMA “I don’t know where he is.You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him… I truly am not that concerned about him.”[President Bush, Press Conference, 3/13/02]
    15. The Environment
    BUSH SUPPORTS MANDATORY CAPS ON CARBON DIOXIDE… “[If elected], Governor Bush will work to…establish mandatory reduction targets for emissions of four main pollutants: sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and carbon dioxide.” [Bush Environmental Plan, 9/29/00]
    …BUSH OPPOSES MANDATORY CAPS ON CARBON DIOXIDE “I do not believe, however, that the government should impose on power plants mandatory emissions reductions for carbon dioxide, which is not a ‘pollutant’ under the Clean Air Act.” [President Bush, Letter to Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), 3/13/03]
    16. WMD Commission
    BUSH RESISTS AN OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION ON WMD INTELLIGENCE FAILURE… “The White House immediately turned aside the calls from Kay and many Democrats for an immediate outside investigation, seeking to head off any new wide-ranging election-year inquiry that might go beyond reports already being assembled by congressional committees and the Central Intelligence Agency.” [NY Times, 1/29/04]
    …BUSH SUPPORTS AN OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION ON WMD INTELLIGENCE FAILURE “Today, by executive order, I am creating an independent commission, chaired by Governor and former Senator Chuck Robb, Judge Laurence Silberman, to look at American intelligence capabilities, especially our intelligence about weapons of mass destruction.” [President Bush, 2/6/04]
    17. Creation of the 9/11 Commission
    BUSH OPPOSES CREATION OF INDEPENDENT 9/11 COMMISSION… “President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11.” [CBS News, 5/23/02]
    …BUSH SUPPORTS CREATION OF INDEPENDENT 9/11 COMMISSION “President Bush said today he now supports establishing an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.” [ABC News, 09/20/02]
    18. Time Extension for 9/11 Commission
    BUSH OPPOSES TIME EXTENSION FOR 9/11 COMMISSION… “President Bush and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) have decided to oppose granting more time to an independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.” [Washington Post, 1/19/04]
    …BUSH SUPPORTS TIME EXTENSION FOR 9/11 COMMISSION “The White House announced Wednesday its support for a request from the commission investigating the September 11, 2001 attacks for more time to complete its work.” [CNN, 2/4/04]
    19. One Hour Limit for 9/11 Commission Testimony
    BUSH LIMITS TESTIMONY IN FRONT OF 9/11 COMMISSION TO ONE HOUR… “President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have placed strict limits on the private interviews they will grant to the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that they will meet only with the panel’s top two officials and that Mr. Bush will submit to only a single hour of questioning, commission members said Wednesday.” [NY Times, 2/26/04]
    …BUSH SETS NO TIMELIMIT FOR TESTIMONY “The president’s going to answer all of the questions they want to raise. Nobody’s watching the clock.” [White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 3/10/04]
    20. Gay Marriage
    BUSH SAYS GAY MARRIAGE IS A STATE ISSUE… “The state can do what they want to do. Don’t try to trap me in this state’s issue like you’re trying to get me into.” [Gov. George W. Bush on Gay Marriage, Larry King Live, 2/15/00]
    …BUSH SUPPORTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BANNING GAY MARRIAGE “Today I call upon the Congress to promptly pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of man and woman as husband and wife.” [President Bush, 2/24/04]
    21. Nation Building
    BUSH OPPOSES NATION BUILDING… “If we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road.” [Gov. George W. Bush, 10/3/00]
    …BUSH SUPPORTS NATION BUILDING “We will be changing the regime of Iraq, for the good of the Iraqi people.” [President Bush, 3/6/03]
    22. Saddam/al Qaeda Link
    BUSH SAYS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEEN AL QAEDA AND SADDAM… “You can’t distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror.” [President Bush, 9/25/02]
    …BUSH SAYS SADDAM HAD NO ROLE IN AL QAEDA PLOT “We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in Sept. 11.” [President Bush, 9/17/03]
    23. U.N. Resolution
    BUSH VOWS TO HAVE A UN VOTE NO MATTER WHAT… “No matter what the whip count is, we’re calling for the vote. We want to see people stand up and say what their opinion is about Saddam Hussein and the utility of the United Nations Security Council. And so, you bet. It’s time for people to show their cards, to let the world know where they stand when it comes to Saddam.” [President Bush 3/6/03]
    …BUSH WITHDRAWS REQUEST FOR VOTE “At a National Security Council meeting convened at the White House at 8:55 a.m., Bush finalized the decision to withdraw the resolution from consideration and prepared to deliver an address to the nation that had already been written.” [Washington Post, 3/18/03]
    24. Involvement in the Palestinian Conflict
    BUSH OPPOSES SUMMITS… “Well, we’ve tried summits in the past, as you may remember. It wasn’t all that long ago where a summit was called and nothing happened, and as a result we had significant intifada in the area.” [President Bush, 04/05/02]
    …BUSH SUPPORTS SUMMITS “If a meeting advances progress toward two states living side by side in peace, I will strongly consider such a meeting. I’m committed to working toward peace in the Middle East.” [President Bush, 5/23/03]
    25. Campaign Finance
    BUSH OPPOSES MCCAIN-FEINGOLD… “George W. Bush opposes McCain-Feingold…as an infringement on free expression.” [Washington Post, 3/28/2000]
    …BUSH SIGNS MCCAIN-FEINGOLD INTO LAW “[T]his bill improves the current system of financing for Federal campaigns, and therefore I have signed it into law.” [President Bush, at the McCain-Feingold signing ceremony, 03/27/02]

  23. Marshall, the fact that you don’t agree with it doesn’t make it “chuck-full of lies.”  After having read most of your ill-informed and crybaby posts, I’m inclined to swear by anything that you feel is untrue or deceitful. 

    And any moderate news outlet you find out there right now is discussing failures at all levels of government.  Bush has come out and acknowledged that there were severe problems with the federal government’s response, and that these will be addressed in due course.  Where is that statement from the Mayor, or the Governor, whose sole responsibility was the evacuation of the thousands of people whose plight has now been hijacked by Democrats to push their “Bush hates everyone except his buddies” agenda?

    Give me a break.  Atleast he had the brass to admit they failed initially.  Personally I think that while things could have done alot better in the beginning, the majority of you on here have no idea what a logistical nightmare it is to try and prepare and implement a disaster recovery plan of this magnitude.  Especially when the Governor isn’t allowing you to federalize control of her resources to ensure a more clear-cut chain of command and infrastructure.  But hey, since W didn’t look at her and say “Look, lady, you don’t have the first $W(*%($ clue what you are doing, and people are going to die, so I’m taking over” it’s his fault.  If he would have done exactly that, he wouldn’t be a racist or an elitest, but a sexist and a brash politial operative trying to make Democrats look bad.  Give me a break.

  24. Stupid said “the majority of you on here have no idea what a logistical nightmare it is to try and prepare and implement a disaster recovery plan of this magnitude.” 

    40,000 people inside NO at the Superdome and CC=40,000 gallons of water and say 120,000 MRE’s.  The water would have been the toughest part, that’s about, 320,000 pounds or 7 tractor trailors or about 20 flights of a CH-47D Chinook helicopter.  Pretty simple logistics actually.  I’ve seen how the president speaks, the lights are on, no one’s home, however his skill with teleprompters has markedly improved.  I’d say the majority of us do know how to act in a crisis and our president and his hand chosen staff have proven several times that they are wholly incapable of preparing or implementing a disaster recovery plan of ANY magnitude.  He’s had a lot of time to prepare since his first “My Pet Goat” moment.  It is reasonable to assume that President George Bush is a Category 5 Failure.

  35. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

  36. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

  37. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

  38. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

  39. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

  40. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

  41. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

  42. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

  43. I’ve managed to save up roughly $31407 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not.  Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

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