A year later, fallout from botched Katrina response still haunts Bush

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/Reuters: Botched Katrina Response Still Haunts Bush
By REUTERS
Published: August 24, 2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast and left New Orleans in ruins, President George W. Bush is still grappling with the political fallout from a federal response widely viewed as inept.

As the storm's August 29 anniversary approaches, memories are being rekindled of corpses and debris piling up in the streets and desperate victims pleading for help from rooftops and the sweltering Superdome in New Orleans.

Those pictures -- juxtaposed with the government's failure to muster an adequate initial response -- shattered the image that Bush sought to cultivate after the September 11 attacks as a strong and effective leader.

Katrina, which killed about 1,500 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across four states, was a catalyst for a slide in Bush's poll numbers from which he has only partially recovered....

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Katrina weighed heavily on Bush's popularity in part because it played into doubts that were already setting in about his handling of the Iraq war, said Calvin Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-weather-hurricanes-bush.html

[kimmerspixelated]

1. If he has any kind of soul at all

(which I doubt), it should haunt him the rest of his life!

[ThomCat]

2. One of many reason why History will remember

Bush as a total failure.

Wonderful legacy you're leaving, asshole. x(

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. It may harm his popularity,

but it certainly doesnt "haunt" him. I sincerely doubt he EVER thinks of NO unless instructed by a telepromter to mention it.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Haunts him politically. Personally? No. nt