24 Katrina Quotes:

1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated
warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

2) "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) this is working very well for them." Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005

3) "We've got a lot of rebuilding to do... The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is goin g to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter) -President Bush,
touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

4) "Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well." FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005

5) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept.
2, 2005

6) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005

7) "Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans
Dodged the Bullet.' Because if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, blaming media coverage for the government's failings, "Meet the Press," Sept. 4,
2005

8) "What didn't go right?'" President Bush, as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), after she urged him to fire FEMA Director
Michael Brown "because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right" in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

9) "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a
need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving." Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Sept. 6, 2005

10) "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals... many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold." CNN's Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans' hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005

11) "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal

12) "If one person criticizes [the local authorities’ relief efforts] or says one more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me. One more word about it after this show airs, and I… I might likely have to punch him, literally." Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), "This Week with Georg e Stephanopoulous," Sept. 4, 2005

13) "There are a lot of lessons we want to learn out of this process in terms of what works. I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise." Vice President Dick Cheney, Sept. 10, 2005 (not a disaster, but an "exercise")

14) "I believe the town where I used to come from Houston, Texas, to enjoy myself, occasionally too much will be that very same town, that it will be
a better place to come to." President Bush, on the tarmac at the New Orleans airport, Sept. 2, 2005

15) "I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on NPR's "All Things Considered," Sept. 1, 2005

16) "Last night, we showed you the full force of a superpower government going to the rescue." MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Sept. 1, 2005

17) "We just learned of the convention center we be ing the federal government today." FEMA Director Michael Brown, to ABC's Ted Koppel,
Sept. 1, 2005, to which Koppel responded: "Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the radio? Our reporters have been reporting on it for more than just today."

18) "Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, let alone getting them out of the city in front of a hurricane." Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), on why New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin failed to follow the city's evacuation plan and press the
buses into service, "Fox News Sunday," Sept. 11, 2005

19) "Louisiana is a city that is largely under water." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, news conference, Sept. 3, 2005

20) "I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school." First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005

21) "It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground." President Bush, turning to his aides while surveying Hurricane Katrina flood damage from Air Force One, Aug. 31, 2005

22) "But I really didn't hear that at all today. People came up to me all day long and said 'God bless your son,' people of different races and it was very, very moving and touching, and they felt like when he flew over that it made all the difference in their lives, so I just don't hear that." Former First Lady Barbara Bush to CNN's Larry King, after King asked her how she
felt when people said that her son "doesn't care" about race, Sept. 5, 2005

22) "FEMA is not going to hesitate at all in this storm. We are not going to sit back and make this a bureaucratic process. We are going to move fast, we are going to move quick, and we are going to do whatever it takes to help disaster victims." -FEMA Director Michael Brown, Aug. 28, 2005

24) "I understand there are 10,000 people dead. It's terrible. It's tragic. But in a democracy of 300 million people, over years and years and years, these things happen." --GOP strategist Jack Burkman, on MSNBC's "Connected," Sept. 7, 2005

100. I hope there are 100,000 dead people on roofs, maybe we can get elected... democrat running for office. (hillary)

[ September 20, 2005, 05:41 PM: Message edited by: PhillyFan ]

What a bunch of clueless jokers. How anyone with sane critical thinking skills can continue to blindly defend them is beyond logic.

Pretty much sums it up...

I wonder what Bushism will fall out of their collective mouths in the wake of Rita. I bet Barbara has requested Air Force One to fly them and their belonging out of Houston.