"Days into one of the greatest disasters in American history the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State continued vacationing. While President Bush eventually cut his vacation short by two days, the others did not deem the crisis significant enough to return to work."
So the Pres., the Veep, and Secretary of State were acting about as concerned about it as the public officials directly responsible for the welfare of New Orleans and LA. And clear thinking Americans are expected to fault them for that? And remeind me again who was pressing whom to get the city evacuated ASAP?
Gov Blanco still hasnt declared a state of emergency. She has declared two days of prayer however.
"While President Bush eventually cut his vacation short by two days, the others did not deem the crisis significant enough to return to work."
I'm so sick and tired of these idiots harping on the Pres being on 'vacation' for a month or 4 or 5 weeks. First, he's never really on vacation, 2nd - if they'd bother to check out his August schedule (link below to WH Press site) they'd see that on Monday he was in AZ discussing Medicare and on Tues he was in CA commemorating the 60th Anniversary of VJ Day. The rest of the month he was working on a variety of items/issues.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/