Just some predictions....
Prediction #1: within the next 2 weeks Chertoff will be out as will Michael Brown.
2. Within the next week the MSM will take and tout a poll, trumped up as it may be, showing Bush's numbers lower than ever
3. The LA state and local officials will recieve virtually no blame from the MSM, but there will be a massive voter retaliation in 2006.
4. Bush's visit today will seem successful to those on the ground, the MSM will look for and find, footage of a victim complaining about the president. This footage will be shown more than footage of the president himself for the next few days.
5. Within 2 months a Dimocrat with alot of clout will begin impeachment hearings.
6. Bush will be fighting for his political survival for the next year, but the Republicans will pick up seats in 2006.
7. Bush's numbers will rise about two months before Nov 2006 on the basis of a largely recovered economy, a good deal of progress in rebuilding NO, and an increasingly robust economy
Your predictions are very reasonable.
If Bush got rid of people who were in over their heads, he would have gotten rid of Scott McClellan a few years ago. He doesn't like to fire people, so I doubt anyone will lose their jobs.
I don't know where Chertoff and Brown were for the first few days, and I don't know anything about how good Chertoff is. I did see the press briefing and Q&A session by Michael Brown yesterday, and I thought he did a very good job.
Hundred dollar donation to Salvation Army says you're wrong. We on?
2. Within the next week the MSM will take and tout a poll, trumped up as it may be, showing Bush's numbers lower than ever
The MSM, CBS, has a poll out today showing only 12% disapproving of the way Bush is handling the disater.
3. The LA state and local officials will recieve virtually no blame from the MSM, but there will be a massive voter retaliation in 2006.
Here, you are right. Blanco is a goner and Nagin won't have a city to be Mayor of.
4. Bush's visit today will seem successful to those on the ground, the MSM will look for and find, footage of a victim complaining about the president. This footage will be shown more than footage of the president himself for the next few days.
Bushs visit will be successful period. He is at his best on the gournd with boots on and talking to the common folk among us.
5. Within 2 months a Dimocrat with alot of clout will begin impeachment hearings.
Democrats are in the minority, they don't "begin impeachement hearings", they don't begin any hearings. Thats what happens when you're in the minority.
6. Bush will be fighting for his political survival for the next year, but the Republicans will pick up seats in 2006.
Bush will come out of this fine. Big losers politically will be MSM, Governor Blanco and Louisiana LEO's.
7. Bush's numbers will rise about two months before Nov 2006 on the basis of a largely recovered economy, a good deal of progress in rebuilding NO, and an increasingly robust economy
Bush's numbers will always be the same. A slim majority amongst voters, the only poll that counts. The country remains divided.