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Paul Mullinaux will deposit the $20,000 check he received from the federal government. But he just doesn't feel right about it. Not after hauling ice in a zigzag motion for two weeks, from New York to Missouri to Alabama to Massachusetts. Not after living for more than a week on the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base flight line. And not after learning how much the federal government paid for what's been deemed Hurricane Katrina's frozen water fiasco. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded an emergency ice contract with IAP Worldwide Services of Cape Canaveral, Fla., paying more for truckers to...

Have They, At Last, No Shame ?? It has just come to my attention – via the Associated Press – the Evil Idealogues in the US House of Representatives have voted to fund hurricane relief by making cuts in Medicaid funding ! The House resolution calls for de-funding Medicaid-subsidized purchase of vitally needed erectile disfunction drugs (EDD)– such as Viagra and Cialis !! It was bad enough when they voted to cut off EDD funding for sex offenders , but this is just over the top. Have they, at last, no shame ?? Don’t they realize, without EDD funding there...

Contract Could Have Supplied Many Jobs To State JACKSON, Miss. -- It looks like Mississippi is getting left out when it comes to hurricane rebuilding contracts. A federal report released by Homeland Security shows only 6 percent of FEMA contracts for relief went to companies in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. AWashington Post investigation revealed $2 billion worth of government contracts given out, but only 3.8 percent are done by companies in Alabama, 2.8 percent in Louisiana and just 1.8 in Mississippi. Added together, it's less than $200 million or a $2 billion pool. Kent Adams thinks that's just fishy. Adams...

NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 5, 2005 – High-speed vessel Swift, homeported at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Norfolk, Va., played a major role in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Swift was pierside at Naval Station Ingleside, Texas, when the crew learned they were needed to deliver fresh food to federal, state and local agencies assisting with the relief efforts. “You can only eat MRE’s (meals ready to eat) for so long,” said Lt. Cmdr. Phillip Pournelle, Swift’s executive officer. " You can build all the high tech ships in the world, but unless you have the crew that’s capable and willing to...

CLEVELAND, Texas (Army News Service, Oct. 5, 2005) – With power coming on throughout the area, Texas National Guard Soldiers with Task Force Seguin transferred food and water distribution duties Oct. 4 to other groups and local authorities. The team is scheduled to begin redeploying home today. “There are still a few rural areas requiring assistance, and in those cases we’ve handed off responsibility to another National Guard task force,” said Lt. Col. Philip Vaneau, the task force commander. Task Force Seguin, with 300 Army and Air National Guard members from throughout Texas, has been assisting the Federal Emergency Management...

10/3/2005 - CLEVELAND, Texas (AFPN) -- As power is restored to smaller cities, Texas National Guardsmen are moving further into rural areas of Texas to assist Federal Emergency Management Agent officials with distribution of food, water and ice to Hurricane Rita victims. Task Force-Seguin, which comprises 300 Army and Air National Guardsmen from throughout Texas, is currently distributing commodities in various Texas towns. Since Sept. 28 the team has distributed 19,214 meals to area residents, along with more than 30,000 bags of ice and almost 35,000 cases of water. “As the electricity comes on and grocery stores open for business,...

ABOARD USS IWO JIMA (NNS) -- After more than a month of conducting relief operations in the wake of two hurricanes that devastated the Gulf Coast, USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) returned home to Norfolk, Va., Oct. 2. After receiving orders to depart the Gulf of Mexico, the multipurpose amphibious assault ship steamed toward the Florida Keys and into the Atlantic Ocean. Oct. 1, Iwo Jima offloaded some 650 Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and 1st Battalion, 8th Marines at Onslow Bay, N.C., via helicopters and Air Cushion Landing Craft (LCAC) from the ship’s well deck. “This...

During this hurricane season of George W. Bush’s political discontent, the president has been slammed almost uniformly by pundits on the left and the right. Some criticisms about the administration’s late reaction to Katrina, and FEMA’s inadequacies in a crisis, are justified. But critics, especially in the conservative ranks, are missing two crucial messages being sent by the president -- messages that could endure long after the names Katrina and Rita are just names again. Bush knows, even if others have forgotten, that the terrorists are carefully watching the U.S. government’s response to the natural disasters in New Orleans, Houston,...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Americans are looking to their leaders for answers to the tragedy and reassurances that the mistakes made in the response will not be repeated in their own communities. Congressional hearings on the successes and failures of the relief effort are underway. As the governor of a state that has been hit by seven hurricanes and two tropical storms in the past 13 months, I can say with certainty that federalizing emergency response to catastrophic events would be a disaster as bad as Hurricane Katrina. Just as all politics are local, so are all disasters....

ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. (Sept. 30, 2005) -- On Aug. 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall and left a path of destruction along the Gulf Coast from the panhandle of Florida to the Mississippi Delta. As the nation realized the scale of the disaster, the Marines of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force St. Bernard, named for the Louisiana parish that would become the focus of efforts, were preparing to respond. Aircraft and Marines from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461 deployed to Pensacola, Fla., to begin rescue and evacuation missions. Reserve Marines from Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; Jackson and Gulfport,...

CLEVELAND, Texas (Army News Service, Sept. 29, 2005) – The Texas National Guard is assisting FEMA with food, ice and water distribution for hurricane victims. Area residents in Liberty County are still without power after Hurricane Rita ravaged the area Sept. 24. “There have been people coming through (the food distribution point in Cleveland) who told me they hadn’t eaten in three days,” said Capt. Eric Cox, who was loading cars with food. Texas National Guardsmen with Task Force Seguin, commanded by Lt. Col. Philip Vaneau from the 149th Fighter Wing in San Antonio, had pre-positioned in College Station before...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2005 – Elements of the Texas National Guard continue supporting relief efforts for areas affected by Hurricane Rita, and Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, has been providing essential support, military officials reported. The Texas National Guard is placing fuel-distribution sites in the Texas towns of Beaumont and Lufkin today. The National Guard will be used to supply fuel to state and local emergency vehicles and facilities in the areas affected by Hurricane Rita. After establishing the stationary fuel supplies, Guard units will provide unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel on heavyweight flatbed trucks. Each truck can transport...

As its hurricane relief donations near the $1 billion mark, more than double all other charities combined, the American Red Cross is encountering sharp criticism of its efforts and mounting pressure to share funds with smaller groups. The complaints — that Red Cross operations were chaotic in some places, inequitable in others — have stung deeply within an organization that is proud of its overall response to Hurricane Katrina, by far the most devastating natural disaster it has confronted on U.S. soil. "It's frustrating to our thousands of volunteers out there every day, away from their families, helping people," said...

Please follow the link. Notice that Wal-mart topped with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. $17,000,000 Whatever people say negatively about Walmart...it does not matter to me. A real tragedy brings out real compassion and as for me, I think Walmart undoubtedly leads the pack when it comes to helping the nation in this disaster. I wonder if the filthy NYTimes ever did anything this big instead of spreading lies and gutter trashy news.

ELLINGTON FIELD, Texas -- More than 100 tons of relief supplies have left this airfield for hurricane-affected Gulf Coast areas via CH-47 Chinook helicopters since Sept. 24. The airfield, which is the central hub for Texas relief operations, is home to the 147th Fighter Wing and its fleet of F-16 Fighting Falcon jets. Wing leaders asked the 136th Airlift Wing at Fort Worth, Texas, to support operations. The Fort Worth wing’s tanker airlift control element has been controlling the airflow to and from the airfield since it opened the day Hurricane Rita passed. And the 136th Aerial Port Squadron has...

KELLY USA, Texas, Sept. 26, 2005 – Not since the 1840s has the Mexican military flown its flag as a deployed military force in the United States, Mexican officials here said today - especially so close to the site of the famed battle of the Alamo where Texas volunteers fought the Mexicans in a bloody daylong clash On Sept. 25, the 184-person Mexican army contingent completed its 20-day long mission to provide relief to hurricane victims and relief workers from Katrina and Rita. In a small ceremony here conducted by the Mexican consulate, the Mexicans ceremonially ended their mission. Now...

The California-based West Coast Chabad's annual star-studded telethon is making a special appeal for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The lineup of stars asking for donations includes Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Los Angeles Lakers basketball legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Earvin "Magic" Johnson. "It's impossible to see the images of destruction and loss coming from the Gulf Coast and not be moved to action," said Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, director of West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch. "Our hearts go out to the hundreds of thousands who are suffering from this disaster, and we will continue to do...

Bush Budget Aide Weighs Cut in Benefit Outlays Storms' Cost Spurs Look At 'Mandatory Spending,' Including Health Programs By DAVID WESSEL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 26, 2005; Page A2 WASHINGTON -- In view of the growing costs of Gulf Coast hurricanes, White House Budget Director Joshua Bolten said the president has asked him "to examine the rest of the budget...to see where we can tighten our belt," a quest that may lead to cuts in federal benefit programs. [Joshua Bolten] Those expenditures, which budget experts call "mandatory spending," include benefits such as farm subsidies and the...

WITH billions of dollars pouring into the Gulf Coast, you might expect that the $488 million in federal money designed to help displaced families pay for private-school tuition would elicit no more than a perfunctory nod. If so, you haven't been following the contentious world of education policy, where any proposal to help children that doesn't involve pumping more money into the public-school system is viewed as heresy by teachers' unions and others with a vested interest in the status quo. The trouble started when the Bush administration unveiled a $2 billion emergency education package for K-12 public and private...

A $25,000 fund set up by the county to help soldiers' families pay their bills has gone virtually untapped, and the county's veterans service officer can't understand why. But a military family assistance official said most people don't realize a healthy percentage of the soldiers called up for active duty make more money when serving in the military than in their civilian jobs, and don't necessarily need financial help. Dane County Veterans Service Officer Michael Jackson said $1,400 in grants have been awarded from the $25,000 fund approved by the County Board in February and finalized in June by County...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The governor of Louisiana, whose state was slammed by two powerful hurricanes in less than a month, said on Sunday she was asking the federal government for $31.7 billion to help rebuild the state's infrastructure. Gov. Kathleen Blanco said she would ask Congress for $11.5 billion to rebuild the state's damaged transportation system, including rebuilding spans of a key interstate highway, damaged ports and airports. She said she would seek $20.2 billion to rebuild and protect the levee system surrounding New Orleans. Parts of that system breached during Hurricane Katrina and again during Hurricane Rita...

Katrina relief trip puts fire chief in hot seat Friday, September 23, 2005 By Kathy Bush and Barton Deiters The Grand Rapids Press SPARTA -- Fire Chief Jerry Bolen believed he was answering a call for help when he and three other firefighters packed their gear and headed south after Hurricane Katrina. Instead, he nearly was out of a job. Bolen had to answer to local officials who criticized him for leaving his post without proper notification and using the fire department's credit card to pay for personal supplies requested by federal authorities overseeing the disaster. Sparta Fire Board members...

An Oklahoma National Guardsman uploads some photos of his first month of deployment in NOLA... and then braces for Rita. Photos.

An Indian Air Force IL-76 aircraft delivered 25 tonnes of relief supplies for the Hurricane Katrina victims at the Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, recently. The relief supplies comprised 3,000 blankets, bed sheets, tarpaulins and personal hygiene items. IAF's IL-76 took off from Palam airport, Delhi, on September 10, 2005, and reached the US via Muscat, Cairo, Lisbon, Lajes and Boston. Indian Ambassador to the US Ronen Sen earlier presented a cheque of $5 million to the US Red Cross on behalf of the Indian government.

Item from a hurricane Katrina-related Washington Post story last month: "John D Podesta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and head of a leading Democratic think tank, says Democrats must start by casting Bush's brand of conservatism --emphasising an 'ownership society' elevating individualism and private enterprise -- as fundamentally flawed and hostile to society's collective responsibility to help citizens." Really? The hole in Podesta's logic is of Category 5 size. Which groups did the better job in aiding Katrina's victims -- government or the loathed individuals from the netherworld of "private enterprise"? That's easy: the private sector. Government,...

Republican Study Committee targets senior programs for budget cuts Sept. 22, 2005 – In a stunning announcement yesterday, the Republican Study Committee recommended shifting a big portion of the cost of Hurricane Katrina to the backs of America’s senior citizens. Recommended program cuts impacting seniors include delaying the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, increase Medicare Part B Premium from 25% to 30%, impose a home health co-payment of 10%, reduce Medicaid administrative spending, increase allowable co-pays in Medicaid, block grant Medicaid acute services, base new Federal Retiree Health on length of service, restructure Medicare's cost-sharing requirement and update the formula used...

(CBS5) The presence of the supernatural and the influence of voodoo long have been synonymous with New Orleans. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the U.S. military are saying that there's something spooky going on and it's not just images of death and destruction that's haunting them. By all accounts, the Sophie B. Wright Middle School in New Orleans sits empty and evacuated except for military personnel who have taken over the campus as a staging site for missions around the battered city. But the men in uniform have the feeling that they're not alone. It prompted a...

North Korea has formally told the UN it no longer needs food aid, despite reports of malnutrition in the country. Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon said the country now had enough food, due to a good harvest, and accused the US of using aid as a political weapon. The move comes as the international community continues to urge North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. Analysts say Pyongyang might be worried that accepting more food aid now could be perceived as a sign of weakness. The North may also have lost patience with efforts by foreign agencies to monitor...

Mexico Offers Help for Rita's Homeless Friday September 23, 2005 6:31 PM AP Photo MO108 By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press Writer NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) - Mexico, coming to its powerful northern neighbor's aid for the second time this month, promised to set up shelters for any Americans left homeless by Hurricane Rita. Nuevo Laredo Mayor Daniel Pena ordered police officers to guide the evacuees, most of them Mexican-Americans who avoided shelters in the United States in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After Katrina, Mexico sent an army unit to Texas and a navy ship to Louisiana with...

Two days after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced plans to issue emergency vouchers aimed at helping poor storm victims find new housing quickly by covering as much as $10,000 of their rent. But the department suddenly backed away from the idea after White House aides met with senior HUD officials. Although emergency vouchers had been successfully used after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the administration focused instead on a plan for government-built trailer parks, an approach that even many Republicans say would concentrate poverty in the very fashion the government has...

Date: 2005-09-22 Denial of Hurricane Aid to Catholic Schools Is Assailed U.S. Bishops' Aide Criticizes Senators Kennedy and Enzi WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPT. 22, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The U.S. bishops' secretary for education says that Senator Edward Kennedy's opposition to hurricane relief aid for private and religious schools "makes no sense." "Denying educational aid to victims of Katrina because they attended Catholic schools is like denying home repair assistance to anyone who is not in public housing," said Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee. "Congress needs to reach out to help all afflicted by disaster, whatever their race, economic level, or school ties,"...

LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (Sept. 22, 2005) -- Texas Air National Guard personnel returning home from Hurricane Katrina duty had just enough time to catch up on sleep before receiving the order to repack their bags. Now they are preparing to deal with the aftermath of another hurricane – Rita – this time on the Texas coast. Members of the 149th Fighter Wing, based on Lackland, will be part of a package of 400 personnel and equipment, named Task Force Seguin, which is part of the 1,750-member Joint Task Force Texas, formed after Gov. Rick Perry directed Texas Military...

GULFPORT, Miss. (NNS) -- Reserve Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 18 are supporting their active-duty counterparts here during hurricane relief efforts. A twelve-member detachment from NMCB 18, headquartered in Washington, is augmenting NMCB 1, an active-duty battalion homeported at the construction battalion center here. "Our heart goes out to the people affected by this horrific event, and our unit is proud that we can be part of the first responders to help those in desperate times,” said Cmdr. Bradley Posadas, NMCB 18’s commanding officer. “I'm very happy our personnel from both Helena, Mont., and Central Point, Ore., detachments...

SLIDELL - They expected to see devastation. They anticipated horrific scenes of overturned cars and homes swallowed by water. But after nearly two exhausting weeks of working 12-hour days to help clean Slidell and area schools, the 100 or so U.S. Marines camping at Bonne Ecole Elementary School never expected to see a Mardi Gras parade. Then, on Friday night, just as dusk faded to night, the stereo receiver clicked on. Zydeco music shot through the parking lot where the Marines gathered, and several Slidell Rotary Club members burst through the school's doors dressed in lavish Mardi Gras attire. The...

Last week, President Bush promised the nation that the federal government will pay for most of the costs of repairing hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, adding, "There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again." There's no question that New Orleans and her sister Gulf Coast cities have been struck with a major disaster, but should our constitution become a part of the disaster? You say, "What do you mean, Williams?" Let's look at it. In February 1887, President Grover Cleveland, upon vetoing a bill appropriating money to aid drought-stricken farmers in Texas, said,...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2005 – The U.S. military is fully capable to fulfill all its responsibilities, including homeland defense and relief efforts, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a Pentagon news briefing today. After deploying more than 50,000 National Guard troops to help with Hurricane Katrina recovery, Army Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, reported that there were still hundreds of thousands of troops available for deployment, Rumsfeld said. The active-duty force also has capabilities to support relief efforts and sustain...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2005 – U.S. Northern Command is prepared to meet requests for assistance that the Federal Emergency Management Agency may issue prior to and in the wake of Hurricane Rita, military officials reported today. The hurricane near the Florida Keys strengthened to Category 2 today and is forecast to strengthen further as it moves westward into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. NORTHCOM's Joint Operations Center continues 24-hour operations in Colorado Springs, Colo., to monitor the storm's progress and to facilitate subsequent requests that may come from FEMA representatives. Defense Coordinating Officers and Defense Coordinating Elements...

To put that $200 billion in perspective, we could give every one of the 500,000 families displaced by Katrina a check for $400,000, and they could each build a beach front home virtually anywhere in America. Federal spending, not counting the war in Iraq, was growing by 7% this year, which came atop the 30% hike over Mr. Bush's first term. Mike Pence of Indiana suggested a one-year delay on the multitrillion dollar new prescription drug benefit for senior citizens. For 220 years, seniors have managed without this give-away; one more year of waiting would hardly be an act of...

19 September 2005 EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16147117%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=exclusive--58--up-in-flames-name_page.html Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned. US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees. Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption. And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent...

Bush suggests lifting the ban on using the military domestically. WASHINGTON - As Washington picks through the lessons learned from hurricane Katrina, there is a growing conviction that the only organization with the skills, expertise, and resources needed to respond quickly to a catastrophe of such magnitude is the American military. President Bush suggested a larger disaster relief role for the armed forces in his national address last week, and Congress has indicated it will take up the issue this autumn. Though the topic has emerged at other troubled times - most recently 9/11 - Congress has always avoided amending...

Former President Clinton believes the Democrats should pounce on and exploit President Bush's refusal to hike taxes to finance Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "They should continue to oppose it, and they should make it an issue in the 2006 election, and they should make it an issue in the 2008 election," said Clinton, interviewed on Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "I think it's very important that Americans understand... tax cuts are always popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1...

House Republicans are looking at delaying some federal spending, including money for a prescription drug benefit under Medicare and thousands of highway projects, to offset the cost of rebuilding the Gulf Coast, a leading GOP fiscal conservative said Sunday. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., said there is a need for dramatic spending cuts in "big-ticket items." However, Democrats appearing on Sunday news programs questioned how President Bush can trim the budget to pay for Katrina recovery and support tax cuts for the wealthy. "Where is he going to find roughly half a trillion dollars over the next several years for Iraq...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - The American Red Cross relief fund for Hurricane Katrina victims will receive $700,000 that remain from an antitrust lawsuit that was settled more than 10 years ago, a federal judge has ruled. "I have determined that these funds can best be allocated ... in alleviating the pain and suffering of, and furnishing some of the basic needs of, the victims of Hurricane Katrina," U.S. Senior District Judge Maurice Paul in Tallahassee wrote in an order dated Sept. 8. In 1991, hundreds of retail drug and grocery chain stores sued three companies they claimed were conspiring to drive...

The federal government's mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe is only the latest bungling in a national disaster response system that for years has been fraught with waste and fraud. A South Florida Sun-Sentinel investigation has found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency in five years poured at least $330 million into communities that were spared the devastating effects of fires, hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. In the country's poorest, inner city neighborhoods, disaster assistance is considered an entitlement. Taxpayer money meant to help victims recover from catastrophes instead has gone to thousands of people who suffered little or no damage,...

An idea that popped into my head seems to make sense on the surface, but, I'm a surface thinking kind of guy. I depend upon minds more indepth than mine so I can correlate as much information before making a decision. So help me out here ... I am one of many Americans who don't believe the role of the federal government, using our tax money, to dole out thousands or millions of dollars to victims or survivors of natural disasters or terrorists attacks. Because such precedent has already been established, I don't feel I have a chance in h*ll...

His story was as heart-rending as it was amazing: fleeing Hurricane Katrina before his gulf coast trailer and all his worldly possessions were washed away, hitchhiking to the nearest Greyhound bus terminal and riding for days to New Jersey, where a kindhearted homeless woman moved by his inability to locate his long-lost sister directed him to an emergency shelter. Almost none of it was true, authorities say. Donald Adair, 42, who spent hours spinning his tale of woe to an Associated Press reporter last week, was arrested Saturday, accused of scamming the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency...

Future generations. The bill to the government for Katrina -- $62 billion so far with untold billions to come -- will be added directly to the $7.9 trillion national debt. President Bush said Friday, "We're going to have to make sure we cut unnecessary spending" and that his administration will "work with Congress" to find cuts elsewhere in the budget, but such offsets are likely to be mostly symbolic. With tax cuts, terrorist attacks and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past four and a half years, the national debt already is $1.2 trillion higher than when President Bush...

I searched for the words: "Bush speech text address transcript" individually and in various combinations. But I cannot find the actual text of his speech. I'm sure it must be here on FR. Can anyone direct me to it? Thanks.

WASHINGTON - President Bush Saturday underscored his goal of a massive rebuilding effort to make storm-battered Gulf Coast communities “better and stronger,” brushing aside growing Republican worries about the impact on the budget deficit. “Out of this tragedy comes an opportunity to harness the good and gracious spirit of America, and deliver new hope to neighborhoods that were suffering before the storm,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. Bush has said the federal government will assume the bulk of the costs for what he says will be “one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen.” He...

As usual, loyal George W. Bush bashers never let the dust settle and the truth come out before sticking a foot in their mouths. The truth is coming out, regardless of what the biased media has tried to do. The mayor never mobilized the school buses or stocked the Superdome with emergency supplies. The governor needed another 24 hours before she would allow federal officials to come in and banned the Red Cross and Salvation Army from delivering supplies immediately after the winds died down. The senator from Louisiana is complaining Mr. Bush didn't help the Army Corp of Engineers...