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NYT brings out snark for Bush Rita trip

September 25th, 2005
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David E. Sanger of the New York Times gives us a peek inside his "Reporter's Notebook" and describes Bush's trip to Colorado and other locations to observe the response to Hurricane Rita. From "In This Storm, White House Tries to Take New Tack":
But unlike the events that have defined his presidency so far - the […]

SP Times columnist: "Reality finally bites Bush"

September 12th, 2005
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From one Robyn E. Blumner:
Reality has finally caught up to George W. Bush.
The bubble in which the president has been governing has finally burst, or, more aptly, has gotten so waterlogged it is too heavy to drag around.
Cindy couldn't do it, but Katrina did. Bush has been shoved awake from his long national daydream to […]

Newsweek: "How Bush Blew It"

September 12th, 2005
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The Newsweek article How Bush Blew It accuses our leader of having surrounded himself with sycophantic slags, among other sins:
…When Hurricane Katrina struck, it appears there was no one to tell President Bush the plain truth: that the state and local governments had been overwhelmed, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was not up […]