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August 30, 2005
Bush's Hurricane Day

As is typical with just about everything, the longer you look at the hurricane disaster, the more you loathe George W. Bush.

Here's what Bush was doing today...

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AMERICAblog is doing a great job, as always, of keeping up with everything.

Here's the worst one: it seems that the program that Congress authorized to prepare for just this kind of event, the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA, was basically defunded by the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts. More from Editor & Publisher.

In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness.

On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: “It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."

Truly unbelievable. He still hasn't gone back to Washington, instead spending one last night in Crawford.

It's absolutely amazing that anyone supports this schmuck. Idiots.

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