MIKE SHELTON, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Posted on 09/13/2005 8:31:40 PM PDT by bobsunshine
President Bush yesterday said he takes personal responsibility for the federal government's stumbling response to Hurricane Katrina as his White House worked on several fronts to move beyond the improvisation of the first days of the crisis and set a long-term course on a problem that aides now believe will shadow the balance of Bush's second term.
...he has dispatched his top strategist, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and other aides to assemble ideas from agencies, conservative think tanks and GOP lawmakers to guide the rebuilding of New Orleans and relocation of flood victims. The idea, aides said, is twofold: ensuring that the federal response comports with Bush's conservative ideology, and preventing Katrina from swamping his second-term ambitions on Social Security, taxes, and Middle East democracy-building.
..the White House was working yesterday to suspend wage supports for service workers in the hurricane zone as it did for construction workers on federal contracts last week, administration and congressional officials said. This possible move, described by administration officials as being under debate, already provoked preemptive Democratic protests.
...At tomorrow's speech, the president is to outline his vision more comprehensively than he has to date. A top aide said he will stress that New Orleans officials will dictate how the city will be rebuilt, but also make plain the reconstruction should reflect his vision of government -- including reducing regulatory obstacles and emphasizing entrepreneurship over big government, the aide said. He will discuss plans to provide health care, education, jobs and housing assistance to flood victims, another aide said.
...the Bush administration and congressional GOP leaders are working on proposals to encourage business investment in the devastated areas and test conservative ideas such as portable benefits for evacuees who want to reestablish in new locales, low-tax business zones and waived environmental regulations.
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Howlin! Where have you been ~LOL~ yes, he was in Dallas from last Wednesday to Monday morning... bought a house there and enrolled daughter in school there... I think the main is in fear but not from the CIA -- if you get my drift.
So does monumental political stupidity.
What class W has. He still hasn't said a bad word about Blank-o or Nagin. Hope the truth comes out eventually so the world knows where the real blame should go!
...Oooh, yessss! And we will all dance in fields of marshmallows, with gumdrop trees, and cotton candy clouds!! And the democrats will all give up, and quit. For ever and ever, for ever and ever!!! I hope, I hope, I hope...Hey genius, hope all you want, the truth will NEVER come out now that Schmucko is taking blame for everything. I will never understand the strategery behind the New Tone. It is republicide.
He should have had his subordinates out in force to criticize the state and local officials if he doesn't want to do so. Bush shouldn't shoulder the blame for anything....all agencies responded in a timely matter and even took action before any was called for. It was rather UNPRECIDENTED as no other President has acted so quickly to a natural disaster.
Could have, would have, should have....that is the story of this administration. Act in a positive and unprEcedented fashion, apologize for it! The incompetence and cowardice, for lack of a better word, is aneurysm-inducing.
Whatever you all say, President Bush is brilliant. Think about it, all the du'rs can do is look for what the feds did wrong,, can't find anything huh? WOW they may have to look at the state/city level for failures!!!!!
Think about nothing! I am so sick of you 3-watt-brained wannabe strategerists in a perpetual false state of denial-induced euphoria. Every time duh-bayoo falls flat on his face, you delude yourselves with this third-rate spin.
All the DUers WILL DO is grab on to this headline and ride with it. ALL THEY WILL DO, genius, is will hear the apology sound bites, headlines, and criticism, and they will become more emboldened. They will NEVER look for blame in the state/city level, because he took it!!! Angry blacks will be angrier, people who do not pay attention will hear only "that he apologized for the hurricane," and the consensus will be that He (I capitalized "He" as not to offend you, O great @$$ kisser) was the one that screwed things up.
I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone. All I ask those of you who eventually bring down America is that you admit to the survivors that W. was a pawn you used to fool conservatives into a false sense of security. Then you can put the bullet in my head.
But.... how many are still in the trailers because they are nicer than their previous housing?
Ask Clinto and dim Dewitt (maybe Hitlery too) why they are still there on the public dime?
You are correct. It is with subtle deliberate rearrangements of factual quotes that the big lib papers get away with murder. Bush did say "any government failure". He did not outright condemn the fed response...and he shouldn't have had to. The fed response was far better than the state and local response which was criminally negligent if not virtually nonexistent.
While your statement is likely true, it is not commonly known that Mississippi was hit by a hurricane and, therefore, not part of the debate. Actually, I believe the hurricane only hit within the city limits of N.O.
He needs to stop smoking something first.
You know I actually don't like that cartoon, even though I am totally in favor of criticizing the governor and the mayor.
But that cartoon implies to me that President Bush is taking responsibility for the Federal problems ( for which I applaud him) but instead for everything..and we all know that is not fair.
But maybe I am expecting too much from an editorial cartoon.
It's like this: "O.K., (since no one responsibility will take responsibility) I'll take the blame, now LET'S ROLL and GET THINGS DONE!!"
I love GW!! What a leader, what man! Just brushes off criticism like a cowboy brushes away flies and keeps on riding.
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