Reality-Based Engineering: Great Mother Jones Article Regarding Bush's NOLA Speech

Monday, September 19, 2005

Great Mother Jones Article Regarding Bush's NOLA Speech

I was going to grab this referenced Bryan Williams blog post myself, but MaJo beat me to it:

Even more impressively, as NBC news anchor Bryan Williams reported at his blog, they managed to get the lights turned on along the President's route into Jackson Square "no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through," so that looted mini-malls and abandoned gas pumps leapt into sight. Of course, an hour after he was done and gone -- rescues of this sort being limited affairs -- the area was "plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans." (As Williams concluded, "It's enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it... jump to certain conclusions.")

Now, combine this with the latest SUSA tracking poll (thanks myDD), entitled "The Hurrieder President Bush Goes, The Behinder He Gets" which started AFTER he gave the speech is showing his -10 balance to now be a -16 balance between approve and disapprove...I actually figured that the speech would stop the bleeding, but it has not. Probably the post-speech commentary from him and other GoOPers that they will not rescind the tax cuts for the rich and will continue to push for a repeal of the estate tax is contributing to their falling poll numbers.