I don't know Miz. It seems to me that the administration, at the VERY least through the lackluster Scott McClellan, could mount a better defense.
Freepers always defend the administration better than it does itself.
I'm calling my Senators tomorrow and telling them a few things FNC has found out and about the fact that the Bush administration paid a little more attention to the levee system in terms of money and studies and fixing than the Clinton administration did. Rush said today that LA gets more money for Army Corp of Engineer projects than any other state in the nation, including California which has a population 9 times the state of Louisiana.
Also, Hurricane Floyd (during Clinton's term) was a big hurricane but nothing like Katrina. And Jesse Jackson was on CNN 3 weeks after the storm criticizing the FEMA director (Witt) and said there were still homeless people. Witt was heavily criticized for his slow response to that storm and like I mentioned, it was nothing like the devastation of this one.
Anyway, I'm babbling. I'm so ticked off.
I need to do the same. All this talk about "rope-a-dope" and so on might have merit, but the fact remains--approval ratings are going down, and it's undeserved.
It's not the President's style, in fact, I mostly admire him for his ability to keep his eye on the ball. (And that ball for the moment is managing what's going on now...an ongoing task filled with public relation land mines.)
In my opinion you have it right, it's the Republican Congress who should do this lifting. The Senators in particular, who owe their majority status to the man in the White House, shouldn't have required days to come to the defense of the President's honor and character.
I have contacted Graham, DeMint and Joe Wilson. I am too cynical, however, to think it will accomplish anything other than more form letters like the ones I FINALLY got this week in response to the whole judicial nominees COMPROMISE nonsense...Somebody with an R after his or her name needs to grow a pair...fast.
~Kylie
I agree Peach. Many of the underlying reasons why there were failures point right to LA. and yet so many are willing to say the whole response was a wholesale failure. If I hear one more time how unprepared we are for a terrorist attack I may spit. While there are cracks in the system to be sure, I get sick of the wholesale dissing of the Bush Administration who in my estimation is the only one who did things right. I think it is pretty apparent that other states would be be better prepared to react in their first responder roles than LA.