Haunted Bush makes more empty Katrina promises

[ProSense]

Bush Reassures Katrina Victims

By Johanna Neuman, Times Staff Writer
9:45 AM PDT, August 23, 2006

President Bush reassured still struggling Katrina victims today that he has not forgotten them, but warned that recovery will take a long time.

"It's a time to remember that people suffered and it's a time to recommit ourselves to helping them," Bush said of the one-year anniversary of the devastating hurricane on Aug. 29. "But I also want people to remember that a one-year anniversary is just that, because it's going to require a long time to help these people rebuild."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-082306bush,0,1124631.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Recommit? When did he commit? A year later and more empty promises, which were detailed in a report issued by Senator Kerry in March:

The report, entitled “Promises Made, Promises Broken: The Bush Administration’s Record on Rebuilding the Gulf Coast,” was released to coincide with President Bush’s tenth visit to the Gulf Coast, and exposes the Administration’s missteps and mismanagement that have undermined the recovery efforts.

“Photo ops will not rebuild the Gulf Coast,” said Senator Kerry. “We need to demand that promises are kept so that New Orleans can come back stronger than before and families can come home. Six months ago, President Bush pledged to ‘do what it takes.’ Today marks the tenth time President Bush is visiting the Gulf Coast to say help is on the way. The help is overdue. Nearly 120,000 Gulf Coast residents are still in limbo waiting to even find out if they will get a disaster loan and more than 140,000 others have been turned away by the Bush administration. We’re insisting on accountability. If the Republican Congress won’t do it, we’ll do it for them. Our report today shines a light on a tragic pattern of mismanagement, mistakes and avoidance of real solutions for rebuilding the Gulf Coast. Enough excuses. It’s overdue to give people the help they deserve.

http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=252971

Promises Made, Promises Broken: The Bush Administration’s Record on Rebuilding the Gulf Coast

Botched Katrina response still haunts Bush

By Caren Bohan
Thu Aug 24, 8:59 AM ET

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060824/pl_nm/weather_hurricanes_bush_dc_1

He's haunted? Lies have consequences! He should be investigated!

[SteppingRazor]

1. That "about 1,500" number...

how is it they still don't have an exact tally?

[Jacobin]

5. They are still finding bodies in destroyed houses in New Orleans

Every couple of weeks its on the local news. Its about 1800 at the moment

Unless you have been there, it is utterly unimaginable what the scale of the destruction is. It goes on for miles and miles and miles and miles and in many places there is still no electricity.

[Kikosexy2]

2. Why did he...

even bother...just should've left an IOU and gotten the hell out of there...ho-hum!

[kurth]

3. HAUNTED Bush?

The moron doesn't lose one microsecond of sleep.

[Dulcinea]

4. Hurricane Katrina will be his undoing.

I said it before & I'll say it again.

I wonder if it bothers him that Hezbollah has had a quicker response to the Lebanese people whose homes were destroyed in the recent conflict that he did to the Katrina victims who lost everything to a natural disaster?

[Blue_In_AK]

6. I wonder how he thinks he can "rebuild" Iraq

in the midst of a civil war when he can't even rebuild New Orleans where people want the government's help. He's an idiot.

[lpbk2713]

7. Poor Dumbya ... Still catching hell about Katrina.

Didn't you people hear him say he didn't get the memo?





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