Bush speech short of Gulf Coast hopes

[deadparrot]

NEW ORLEANS — Many Gulf Coast residents spent Wednesday angrily counting the words President Bush devoted to their storm-battered region in his State of the Union speech.

The tally: Bush addressed 165 of his 5,300 words to disaster recovery in the Gulf, and he never used the word "Katrina."

"I waited until the bitter end," Dottie Tabor, a New Orleans retiree, said as she bought food at a city market. "There was not enough at all about New Orleans, and he promised a lot when he was down here."

At the end of his speech Tuesday, Bush spoke of the $85 billion that the federal government is giving to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf, but he did not propose any new funding. Tabor and others worry that the speech is a signal Bush has moved on to other issues.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-01-hurricanes-bush_x.htm

[saltpoint]

1. I hope many of the victims of Hurricane Katrina who voted for

George W. Bush for president will long remember his week-long delay after the storm struck, the "heckuva job" Bush's appointee Brown did on the rescue efforts, and to top it off, the SOTU's absence of much acknowledgment of the plight of citizens who lost their homes and much of their city.

[jobycom]

2. New Orleans is overwhelmingly Democratic, so most of the people

suffering the worst didn't vote for him.

[saltpoint]

3. That's true. Just sayin' those who did... you know -- not only in Nawlins

but everywhere else, too.

In an emergency, that is who Bush responds, etc.

[azureblue]

4. But it ain't just the CC

A lot of LA was destroyed by Katrina & Rita, and poeple all over the state will remember how Bush did nothing & lied, for a long time... And I can bet no Rep. in the state wil dare link his campaign to Bush..

[rodeodance]

5. even Tim Russert made the point of how it will go "RED"--if Blacks not

come back/able to come back. Was on cnn I believe this morning.

[rodeodance]

6. "he promised a lot when he was down here." --says it all doesn't it.