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Despite day after day of appearance by President Bush aimed at undoing talk about corpses
Hurricane Katrina
blew through Hollywood, Florida
the political damage from a poor response to Hurricane Katrina, talk about toxic soup
Palm fronds the White House has not been able to regain its footing, talk about mama drowning
Cane splinters already shaken by the war in Iraq and a death toll exceeding 1,880. talk about suicide
Mango branches on the lawn The administration on Tuesday struggled to deflect calls for an accounting talk about rotten stench
of who was responsible for a hurricane response In New Orleans hungry mortality that even Bush acknowledged was inadequate talk about nothing left
Even as Katrina was bearing down Provolone, mushroom, bacon omelet on the Gulf Coast that Sunday night talk about being lost
and early Monday, Aug. 28-29, A biscuit at Grandpa’s Diner and the national hurricane center was warning talk about losing everything
Skip dinner Shell a bowl of peanuts of growing danger, the White House didn't alter the president's plans talk about too much talk
Wake late, check news New Orleans destroyed to fly from his Texas ranch to the West to promote a new Medicare prescription drug benefit. talk about corpses
Why aren't there ten thousand rescue helicopters flying into New Orleans? By the time Bush landed in Arizona that Monday, the storm was unleashing its fury talk about toxic soup
Why can’t an administration that says it can rebuild Iraq protect it's own people? on Louisiana and Mississippi. The president inserted into his speech talk about mama drowning
Don't answer only a brief promise of prayers and federal help. He continued his schedule in California, talk about suicide
It’s a race, class issue “Boots or books” issue and he didn't decide until the next day that he should return to Washington. talk about rotten stench
But it took him another day to get there, Iraq issue, troops issue! Food or security issue? as he flew back to Texas to spend another night talk about nothing left
at his home before leaving for the White House.“It’s human nature!” Once the president was in Washington, talk about being lost
Babies sheltered w/ cardboard salvaged from wreckage of “policy” the criticism only intensified. In a television interview, Bush said - mistakenly – talk about losing everything
Platitudes that nobody anticipated the breach of the levees in a serious storm. talk about too much talk
Factoids Even Monday’s trip to the region was a redo, hurriedly arranged by the White House. . . Father says, “A Thousand Points of Light”
Son says, “The Armies of Compassion” Bush raised eyebrows on his first trip by, among other things, picking Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. – talk about mama drowning
Even as we speak. . . instead of the thousands of mostly poor and black storm victims – as an example of loss. Bicycling medicines
from pharmacy to catastrophe That they would be refugees “Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house— ” Bush said, “he’s lost his entire house—there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch.” Bush gave FEMA chief Brown – the face for many of the inadequate federal response – Aliens in their own country
Because they’re poor, black, poor, white a hearty endorsement. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," Bush said. talk about too much talk
“Making their own situations in a dog eat dog world” Later in Biloxi, Miss., Bush tried to comfort two stunned women talk about too much talk
“Refugees” wandering their neighborhood clutching Hefty bags, looking in vain for something talk about too much talk
“Evacuees” to salvage from the rubble of their home. Bush kept insisting they could find help talk about too much talk
“Flood victims” at a Salvation Army center down the street, even after another bystander informed him talk about too much talk
talk about corpses it had been destroyed. And at his last stop that day, talk about too much talk
“It’s time for Bush to go” at the airport outside of New Orleans, Bush lauded the increasingly desperate city as a great town because he used to go there and “enjoy myself—occasionally too much.” talk about too much talk
whine, whine go away come again another day talk about corpses maybe ten thousand corpses talk about too much talk too much, too much I look outside Crows in the mango tree August 28- September 16, 2005 |
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