Anyone who thinks that a president who is away from the White House is impaired in their ability to communicate with other parts of the government or in receiving intelligence are seriously ignorant.

Whether Bush being in Texas had an impact on the Federal response can be debated, but I would guess that any impact is doubtful. Perception-wise, however, it allows the impression to be made that Bush isn’t taking events seriously because he is handling them from Texas and not D.C. Had Bush come immediately to D.C. and realled Cheney and others from their vacations, the focus would not have been on the Federal response, but rather the failure of state and local officials to evacuate the residents.

It’s interesting that in [yet another] post complaining about Bush’s “vacations,” you try to show his trip to Crawford was a detriment by linking to a quote about OTHER officials on vacation. Hope you didn’t pull anything in that stretch.

For what it’s worth, I too am disappointed in the response from Bush and other feds, but I don’t think an absolutely ideal response from him would have changed things as much as folks on the left would like to believe, and I don’t think the trip to Crawford or the cut funds for 2006 and beyond had anything at all to do with it.

It was not George Bush who chose to leave NO city and school buses to be destroyed by the hurricane. The mayor chose to do that. Why did the mayor not use these buses to evacuate his citizens from his city? Did he intend to leave the poorest and weakest of his citizens to die? He also chose to use as a “last ditch” shelter, a site that he himself had previously stated was not safe. Again, why not use those buses to evacuate instead of packing people into the superdome? OW will not even address the bus issue because he damn well knows that the mayor (D) and the gov (D) of LA completely f**cked up and shirked their duty to protect their own citizens while fleeing to saftey themselves.

I don’t understand why you and other right wing fanatics try to cover for Bush’s ‘short comings,’ not to stay inability to understand even the most basic of issues.

Dugger, Can you Prove its Not True!!!?