So you guys don't care if New Orleans and its outlying parrishes, get rebuilt? How about Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss. which his speech proposed to also fund? Don't care about those folks either? Is it about the people and their...what...irresponsibility? Do you think they're to blame for an entire city being drowned? Because, after all, if it weren't for the people, there wouldn't be a city, parrishes and counties to bail out, correct? So what's the new mantra? "It's all
their fault?"
Splash some reality in your faces: if Bush did nothing, his popularity would probably hover in the twenties. As is, he historically owns one of the lowest popularity ratings of any President in their second term. And if he did nothing, there goes the Republican seats up for grabs in mid-term elections. Plus, the party can kiss the moderates goodbye and secondly, it refuels the racism fires - if Bush did nothing.
Not to mention NO and other Gulf Coast regions have already shown their potentcy as hubs of resource. Again, how much did gas prices rise after Katrina when all those offshore rigs were blown from their foundations?
His speech was not just about providing aid to the displaced throughout the region, but also reintroducing commerce, which aside from one or two 24-hour bars, has also been displaced.