[George W. Bush]

Well, I don't see exactly how you're involved but don't sweat it. I'm watching some of the television coverage tonight. It really is appalling. I can't believe how inept the government's response has been. Local officials can't even control the police and quite a few survivors may die before we get federal resources there. Sadly enough, some of the private charities and the corporate efforts like Walmart beat the feds and the locals to the scene on delivering lifesaving aid.

Waiting for this government clown posse trying to waddle out of its latest spending stupor and actually help some helpless citizens is really starting to grate on me when I think of all the borrowed money they've just pissed away in recent years.

[SauronOfMordor]

I can't believe how inept the government's response has been.

Inept is a good word for it

Survivors outside New Orleans feel they're forgotten

[snip] The nation has largely focused on the death, destruction, lawlessness and overwhelming loss in New Orleans, leaving the Gulf Coast – where the vicious storm scored a direct hit – feeling somewhat forgotten. But misery has company.

As President Bush saw yesterday when he toured Biloxi, the town that once boomed with floating casinos and gleaming hotels and a proud fishing fleet is now a massive pile of rubble. Scores of people have died in Mississippi, and the newly homeless choke emergency shelters.

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"We waded 30 feet through the wind and the storm surge to a concrete section that looked like it would hold," he said. "Thank God it did."

From the time the storm passed Monday until yesterday morning, the couple and construction laborers David and Wilma Magee said they saw many curious things at the motel, including helicopters passing low overhead and bodies in the parking lot and on the beach.

"We kept waiting for some rescue person to come by and check on us. Nobody did," Jake Edwards said. "Finally, we flagged down a cop, and they found a truck and brought us here (yesterday afternoon)."