When the levees broke, the waters rose and Bush’s credibility sank with New Orleans

Times Online ^ | 8/4/05 | Andrew Sullivan

[George W. Bush]

Just saw Sullivan on Chris Matthews saying something like "I think this is the crisis point for this president. It marks the point where we begin to wash our hands of him." (Not word-for-word but very close, sorry, my memory didn't hold the phrases perfectly while I found the thread again.)

As soon as Matthews served up the premise of is-this-a-crisi-for-Bush Sullivan leaped out first with this statement.

It's clear that he openly favors getting rid of Bush. So much for all the past nonsense around FR on Sullivan being that nice gay conservative. Physically, you can easily see the extent to which the AIDS drugs and steroids have affected him.

[MamaLucci]

Poor Andrew..........still looking for a pat on the back (or perhaps a quick jump) from his gay friends. All the homos hate Bush (pun intended).

[George W. Bush]

The USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Banda Aceh area of Indonesia from Hong Kong (about 1700 nautical miles) on the sixth day after the tsunami hit and was rightly praised for the speed of its reaction. I don’t know how much provisioning had to be done, but its crew was only a cab drive away from the ship. It is about the same distance from Norfolk to New Orleans as it is from Hong Kong to Banda Aceh. Even if they were fully provisioned and had recalled their crews, the ships could not have made it to New Orleans much before today.

I think the Navy has been outstanding in this. We can't expect any better. They're coming in to support the longer relief and search effort. They're simply not first-responders.

Those Coast Guard and Navy vessels that were in the Gulf when the storm hit were out rescuing people as soon as it was safe to leave port.

Governor Barbour on one of the talk shows this morning indicated that Coast Guard had rescued over 1700 people just by winching them into helicopters. He made some mention of rescues made by hanging from ropes from the helicopter to pluck people up from floodwaters who were clinging for life. It was a very dramatic recounting though his style was his usual matter-of-fact speaking.

[hope]

Wishful thinking...Just stay in your idiotic stupor, lefties...The taxpayers and the compassionate volunteers will take care of the suffering people in the Southeast...

[upcountryhorseman]

To blame The President is utter nonsence! The blame lies wth the NO Mayor and the Governor. (aren't they democrats?)

[al baby]

looks like a lot of Kerry voters are now homeless in Narleans

[mdmathis6]

So like a disaster movie in which society is put back together again 3 days after the asteroid hits...you expected that Louisiana...AND...Mississippi....AND....Alabama would all be well on the way to recovery?...an AREA greater THAN THE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN (no less?!)

So George Bush is to be blamed for many folks not heeding the warnings to get out and for certain stupid local and state officials not using their local school buses to assist the sick and destitute to get out of the city of New Orleans?

By the way its only been 7 days and the national guard is in New Orleans now. The more southern parishes are still under water...not much help has been able to reach them...it seams the Gulf has reclaimed a good chunk of the La. coastline.

By the way the governors of Ms and Ala aren't complaining.


Let's keep a sense of perspective here!

[mdmathis6]

Good point!

[rineaux]

Yes it is true. The president of the board would you funds to investigate his critics/enemies. corruption at its best.