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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (728653)	3/1/2006 7:49:08 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"What's happening is he's starting to lose his own base," says pollster John Zogby, whose last poll had Bush at 40 percent but who doesn't challenge the new CBS numbers. "He's under 45 percent among NASCAR families, gun owners and red-state voters. He's down to 51 percent among born-again Christians." Zogby makes one more mathematical calculation: "He's beyond the point, at 34 percent, where he can govern." Which may explain why so many congressional Republicans have been eager to break loose from the administration on the issue of Dubai operating U.S. ports. This rebellion is partly ports, partly polls. (Right now, the only person who makes the president look good is the vice president, who now has an approval rating of 18 percent, a level thought to be mathematically impossible. For perspective, Zogby notes, 18 percent was the approval rating of O.J. Simpson in 1994.) The CBS poll found that for the first time, a majority -- 51 percent -- doesn't think the president cares about people like themselves. Only 30 percent now approve of the president's conduct of the war in Iraq, and 62 percent think the war is going badly -- an attitude that drags down Bush's traditional strength, conduct of the war on terror, and hammers down his overall rating.

To: puborectalis who wrote (728653)	3/1/2006 7:53:19 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 769670

It didn't seem they'd mustered anything when they finally showed up four days later.

To: puborectalis who wrote (728653)	3/1/2006 10:44:56 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The day storm hit, Bush was worried about levees (Midday - Blanco , "We haven't breached yet.") The Times-Picayune ^ \| March 01, 2006 \| Bill Walsh WASHINGTON -- On the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, President Bush and a top presidential aide were worried about whether New Orleans' levees had held, according to a transcript of discussions among disaster officials on the front lines of the storm. Those concerns, expressed about midday Aug. 29, are in contrast to an image of a detached president and also to what happened later that night. That's when an official manning the federal emergency operations center held off acting on reports of levee breaches as he waited for confirmation. .... skip to The transcript, obtained by The Times-Picayune, illustrates the gulf at the highest levels of government between concern for the disaster and action. .... skip to During the call, which began at noon, then-FEMA Director Michael Brown says that he had already spoken to President Bush twice that day. "He remains very, very interested in this situation," Brown said. "He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions about reports of breaches. He's asking about hospitals. He's very engaged, and he's asking a lot of really good questions I would expect him to ask." Later in the call, White House aide Joe Hagin asks specifically about the condition of the levees. Gov. Kathleen Blanco tells him that no failures were confirmed -- yet. "We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees," Blanco said. "I think we have not breached the levee. We have not breached the levee at this point in time. That could change, but in some places we have floodwaters coming in New Orleans East and the line at St. Bernard Parish where we have waters that are 8- to 10-feet deep, and we have people swimming in there, that's-got-a-considerable amount-of-water." nola.com