FRANK RICH : Return to the Scene of the Crime - Bush and Katrina & More
by FRANK RICH - The New York Times
Sunday Aug 27th, 2006
Rich: Bush and Katrina - Everyone knows President Bush’s real mission in New Orleans: to make us forget the first anniversary of the downfall of his presidency.
- PLUS: US jet crashes with 50 on board
- PLUS: Fox News journalists freed & More
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Return to the Scene of the Crime
By FRANK RICH

Published: August 27, 2006


Everyone knows President Bush’s real mission in New Orleans: to make us forget the first anniversary of the downfall of his presidency.

PRESIDENT BUSH travels to the Gulf Coast this week, ostensibly to mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Everyone knows his real mission: to try to make us forget the first anniversary of the downfall of his presidency.

As they used to say in the French Quarter, bonne chance! The ineptitude bared by the storm — no planning for a widely predicted catastrophe, no attempt to secure a city besieged by looting, no strategy for anything except spin — is indelible. New Orleans was Iraq redux with an all-American cast. The discrepancy between Mr. Bush’s “heckuva job” shtick and the reality on the ground induced a Cronkite-in-Vietnam epiphany for news anchors. At long last they and the country demanded answers to the questions about the administration’s competence that had been soft-pedaled two years earlier when the war first went south.

What’s amazing on Katrina’s first anniversary is how little Mr. Bush seems aware of this change in the political weather. He’s still in a bubble.
Continued:
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11740966.html



Ernesto upgraded to hurricane status
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11740320.html



US jet crashes with 50 on board
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11740022.html



Reporters caught in Israeli air strike
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11740623.html



Fox News journalists freed
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11739826.html



Research link
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/profile



And More on Today's Newswire
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/2006/08/27/


MARC PARENT
CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS
 
 


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