[.cnI redruM]

Looks like this whole story by the MSM is doing about as well as Dan Rather's National Guard Memo. Good to see.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

How long before the Dim Bulbs go back to talking about Valerie Plame?

[edcoil]

Opra and MSM sure have a lot of work to do. They think we are stupid and they can change the truth.

[shuckmaster]

Despite widespread criticism of the response by Bush

There is NO widespread criticism!!! There's just a tiny handful of the usual suspects getting way too much media time.

[Jeff Head]

The rat's (liberal/left/RINO) own measurement methodology is showing that they are failing in their attempts to blame the admin and federal agencies for the tragedy.

[carlr]

Despite widespread criticism of the response by Bush and, separately, the federal government, to the problems caused by the hurricane,by partisan democrats and their mouthpieces in the press

Just correcting what the author forgot.

[Republican Red]

But ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCFOX all said it was the President's fault!

What power they have in persuading people to their side.

Karl Rove must have fixed the polls. Maybe those diebold voting machines are involved? (lol)

[evets]

"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart didn't get the memo.

Last nights Bush bashing lacked humor.
(Jumped the shark.)

[MNJohnnie]

Really bad new for the Bush haters. As more and more information comes out, such as the conviction of 3 State of Louisiana Dept of Homeland Security officials for trying to obstruct a audit of Flood Control projects last year, this can ONLY go one way. They sucker punched us by going political so quick but as always the truth will turn right around and bite the Hate Leftists on the butt.

[jveritas]

The American people have witnessed the utter failure of the welfare system and the people who depends on it for almost everything in their lives. They have seen the looting, and heard about murders, rapes, crimes, and they were shocked at how some people can behave like in time of a disaster. They saw the utter incompetence and absolute lack of leadership among the state and local officials of Louisiana. They saw all this and they hate what they saw. Liberals and their media whores can make all the biased polls in the world to show that president Bush is to blame but the majority of American think otherwise and they primarily blame the majority of people who stayed either because they are stupid or because they are criminals who wanted to loot, and they also blame to a large degree the incompetent fools who are the mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana.

I am really surprised that the defeated liberal media despite all the incredible blame Bush hysteria and lies in the last ten eight days and all the effort to make the most biased polls did not yet succeed to show that President Bush is to be blamed by majority of Americans for what happen during and after the hurricane. Both ABC news polls and CNN polls failed to do so despite an incredible method of bias that I am sure they have used to conduct these polls.

I hope that the President addresses the nation tomorrow in a prime time speech in front of a joint session of congress to address the hurricane, the gas/oil crisis, and the war on terror in particular in Iraq. An address like will be great for all of us.

[Renegade]

Isn't the total black population of the U.S.A. about 13 percent ?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It must be so humbling to lose your ability to manufacture news.

[Turbo Pig]

This is actually heartening. Considering how many people irrationally HATE President Bush, it's amazing that the numbers are so low.

[dawn53]

We need the "deeply saddened" photo on this thread.

[Salvation]

**and 25% state and local officials. **

[mjustice]

Despite widespread criticism of the response by Bush

What the author fails to mention is that the criticism is overwhelmingly from the media and Hollywood. Most people (even the Bush Bashers) know that a federal response takes time.

MJ

[Rokurota]

That means even a good majority of die-hard Dems (~30%)don't blame Bush. The media's BS is being seen as is.

[RetiredArmy]

This cannot be right. EVERYTHING is Bush, Cheney and Halliburton's fault. EVERYTHING WRONG, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!

[Polybius]

Gallup: little outrage, for Bush's ... response to hurricane (only 13% blame him)

Why should they?

NOBODY was supposed to be left trapped in the New Orleans flood bowl death trap as 200,000 low-income residents were as a result of the gross and possibly criminal negligence on the part of the Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, and the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, who failed to follow their own evacuation plan prior to the landfall of Katrina.

New Orleans is in a Storm Surge Zone, below sea level, and surrounded by levies that were only designed to withstand storms lass than a slow-moving Category 3 hurricane. That means that any person staying in New Orleans during a Category 3 or higher hurricane is facing a very high risk of death. Katrina was forecast as a Category 5 and hit as a Category 4.

What Is "Storm Surge" and Why It Matters.

The 2004 Hurricane Pam Exercise was modeled on a catastrophic destruction of New Orleans after only a slow-moving Category 3 hurricane. It was based on the assumption that there had been a complete evacuation of New Orleans. Shelters outside of the New Orleans flood bowl had already been identified:

Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes.(2004 New Orleans Disaster Prediction)

President Bush requested that Governor Blanco allow the Federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, and Governor Blanco, for political reasons, refused:

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday..........The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they had been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals", said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

The Southeast Louisiana Evacuation plan supplement, revised in 2000, page 13, read paragraph 5, stated:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating. In spite of that,over four hundred New Orleans publicly owned buses remained parked in neat rows and 200,000 low-income New Orleans residents were left trapped in the ¡§New Orleans flood bowl¡¨ (as scientists call it) in the face of the incoming storm surge.

Those 400+ buses, at 70 passengers per bus, could have taken 28,000 of those low-income citizens per trip out of New Orleans on the inbound lanes that the Governor and Mayor inexplicably left unused during the evacuation.

As a result, 200,000 of the poorest residents of New Orleans were left trapped din a disaster waiting to happen with no where to go but the Superdome.

While 800,000 of New Orleans' residents with private transportation were being saved, 200,000 of New Orleans', low-income residents were left abandoned by the Governor and the Mayor in the New Orleans flood bowl to face a Category 4 Hurricane Storm Surge.

If the levies had failed catastrophically instead of at a few certain point as they did, the death toll would have reached Hiroshima proportions.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Despite widespread criticism of the response by Bush and, separately, the federal government, to the problems caused by the hurricane, the public seems on balance only mildly critical.

Very telling wording.