[marshmallow]

Bush has made some major goofs but Katrina is way down the list. In fact, it's not even on my list.

I'm no big fan of George but these ex-aides aren't worth a damn.

[anniegetyourgun]

I’m with you....hardly his worst moment.

[icwhatudo]

Bush's fault.

[McBuff]

Katrina as “Bush’s Failure” is a load of hogwash.

[CindyDawg]

No one has recovered from Katrina

[AndrewB]

Mathew Dowd

[flash2368]

Comments to me by people who work around him on a daily basis: “dumb as a box of rocks..he does what the people around him tell him to do”

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Actually it was getting bad advice from moles like these that was Bush’s undoing.

[steelyourfaith]

Right. The first responders have to be local and state, and there the 'Rats dropped the ball. Tertiary Feds' problem.

Let's face it, The GOP in the Bush era is rife with lowlife RINO bureaucrats.

[eyedigress]

Given the fact he had NO POWER to act until their idiot Governor asked for it, it isn’t applicable. Just another nail in the Constitution Coffin as far as the socialists go.

[JennysCool]

George Bush warned both Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco that they ought to evacuate people in the path of the storm DAYS before those two idiots finally decided maybe they ought to listen.

The insane re-writing of history by the Democrats and the MSM ever since has been beyond disgraceful.

This was emphatically NOT “Bush’s Fault,” but the fault of two Louisiana Democrat leaders, just as the mortgage meltdown ia almost exclusively a Democrat debacle.

The spin over the past four years has been unprecedentedly vile.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Just think.

He could have reversed his failed Presidency.

All with one act, in several simple stages.

Completely doing a 180 and opposing all amnesty, starting up the mass deportations and cut off all all federal services to illegal invaders, and building the US-Mexico border wall faster and higher than anyone could ever have imagined. He would have had the bucks. He lacked the WILL.

His popularity would be soaring in the 70% level.

Shame, Mr. President.

[BlueAngel]

With friends like these, who needs enemies???

[TonyStark]

[Doug TX]

I don’t think Katrina was the lowest point.

GWB administration including Powell will be attached to WMD well beyond their days.

Cruel as it may seem, the Katrina storm/flood was coming one day. Living at or near sea level is living dangerously. Rebuilding on at risk areas is insane no matter what the jazz artist and cookies want.

[valkyry1]

The Katrina failure should be laid at the State and local level.

[Cicero]

Bush’s chief problem seems to have been that he appointed thousands of moles and traitors at all levels of his administration, who turned on him whenever they got the chance. He lost control of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, the EPA, the Treasury, and just about everything else.

We all know that the real screw-ups in Katrina were the NOLA and Louisiana politicians, notably the mayor and governor. And of course the press lied their heads off over it.

But Bush has been ill served by his appointees, including these two. And he did a lousy job of talking to and counteracting the press, as well. He was much too polite to the Louisiana politicians who were screwing him and blaming him for their own messes.

[hsrazorback1]

Looks to me that GWB’s main downfall was hiring a bunch of no-talent, turncoat clowns.

[FrankR]

The reaction to Katrina should have been 85% underway before Washington or Bush was even informed about it. Nagin sat on his sorry ass waiting for someone else to clean up his mess, while his chosen people looted and robbed every store they could find.

The Governoress of the fine state of Louisiana should have been all over this as she has the power of calling out the National Guard, who could have been of great assistance in driving some of those 100+ unused school buses that Nagin forgot about.

Bush's only problem is he let Nagin, the governoress, and the press put him on the defensive, and became reactionary. He should have been on the tube telling everyone that relief would have come sooner had the first reponders - state and local governments - done their duty.

But, Bush did respond will millions of dollars - handing out "cash cards" to residents like penny candy, which they were blowing on strip joints and dope. I guess they thought he was supposed to give them some mad money to play with, and later give them more for a place to live.

I'm sorry if you're starving, but if I give you $1000 bucks and you piss it away, don't come later asking for food.

Katrina was just a golden opportunity for the final coup de gras for Bush by the MSM and the libs. Bush did everything that anyone else would have done, but there is nothing in creation that Bush could ever do to satisfy liberals...or the press.

I won't wish anything bad on the people, but I would really like to have seen how obama would have handled it.

[Retired Chemist]

But Ray Nagin was reelected!

[Balata]

The problem is when the Dems came out in the aftermath and pinned this on Bush there were no Repubs that came out to counter these charges and put the blame back where it belonged directly on the Gov and Mayor.