Has anyone done a timeline of Bush's response to Katrina?

[Poiuyt]

For instance:

Mon, Aug 29 - Katrina becomes cat. 5 hurricane, bears down on New Orleans; Bush eats cake with John McCain.

Tue Aug 30 - Katrina devastates New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama coast line; Bush plays guitar at San Diego fund raiser.

Wed Aug 31 - Bodies floating in flood; Bush finally decides to take the two day trip back to Washington.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Good point. We need to fit in what went wrong in terms of evacuation and

the lack of $$ to do the levees up right and the NG being out of the country...

[expatriot]

2. The White House has done it for us.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

[Raster]

3. I think you mean "response," and there hasn't been one.

[Poiuyt]

9. Damn dyslexic keyboard

Thanks

[Raster]

15. No prob. My does the same thing too.

[Poiuyt]

18. You mean "mine"

[Raster]

23. see what i maen

[Poiuyt]

25. If we can send a man to the mooon, why can't we maak a keyboard that works

[Raster]

26. Bastarsd!

[Doctor_J]

10. No, she meant repose,

which is the only think Smirk is good at.

[Poiuyt]

19. I think Poiuyt is a he

Last time I looked at least

[expatriot]

4. Note, the Hurrican hit on the wee hours of Monday, August 29.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Ships should have left Norfolk Monday morning. Today is too late. (nt)

[expatriot]

6. Sunday evening

nt

[Captain Hilts]

20. Yes, ideally. Sunday evening would have made sense.

I just talked to someone who was taking their kid to Tulane. They got there Saturday and the folks at Tulane said to go home and that they probably wouldn't be open for a couple of months. Tulane knew that on Saturday, why didn't the White House?

And Chris Matthews was on the air on a Sunday night specifically to cover the approaching hurricane. If Chris Matthews and MSNBC knew it was a big deal, why didn't the White House?

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Saturday Aug 27

Katrina projected to hit near New Orleans. Not sure WTF Bush was doing.

[Doctor_J]

8. The problem is

they can't ramp up his meds quickly enough to get him in front of a camera. When we have a real emergency, like this or 9/11, and he's in vacation or campaign mode, it takes several days to drug him enough for him to perform his "virile leader" act. He has to be prepped for 3 days to give a 3-min speech, and then there's the careful narcotizing required to keep him from drooling and/or having a cursing fit. Presidentin' is hard work.

[stevedeshazer]

11. I'm working on one.

I'll report back in 24 hours.

[bluethruandthru]

12. same old bushit

Lack of leadership..again!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. Aug 29, Bush eats birthday cake with McCain in AZ (seriously).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901707.html

[MisterP]

14. Aug. 28: Bush *)#($icks around, doing absolutely nothin' 'bout nothin'

Aug. 29: Bush golfs, later visits the Hotel del Coronado (just like Marilyn Monroe!)

[Captain Hilts]

21. Is it true he played golf???? (nt)

[MisterP]

29. I do believe so: he spent the day's first half in Arizona pushing

reaming out Medicare, then flew over to San Diego: the day before he had cake, the day after (yesterday) he minced about with soldiers and then went to his pig farm in Tex. to mince about some more, just a few hundred miles west of the devastation

[niyad]

16. there should be a dual picture--bush smiling and waving at his "base" on

monday (not sure whether that shot was at luke or in CA) right next to an image of that 25ft wall of water slamming into gulfport and biloxi, to be shown every commercial break, and be the backdrop to every single time his name is mentioned on a newscast

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Aug 30, Bush makes speech in San Diego comparing Iraq/WWII

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/31/MNGP3EFOV21.DTL

And subsequent speech about Medicare the same day.

[blue4barb]

22. Timeline should include dates that bush* slashed funding for NO

safeguards.

[GeorgeGist]

24. Presidential briefing 8-28-2005: Katrina determined to strike US

[pacifictiger]

27. A subject for the next Michael Moore movie subject perhaps?

[Igel]

28. Katrina was declared category 4 very, very early on Aug.28;

it was upgraded to category 5 later that morning (but still before dawn).

That was Sunday. An hour or two later state/city officials in LA called for evacuation, which would probably have been silly to call for when it was a category 3 storm on Saturday had Katrina not strengthened significantly (as forecast, with some doubt).

Aug. 29: Katrina strikes N.O. People breathe sigh of relief over N.O., it was spared the damage many feared (although the wind damage was nothing to laugh at: it could have been much worse); the storm ravages MS later that day.

Aug. 30: N.O. levees breached, N.O. looks to be going to hell in a handbasket, most people push Mississippi to the back of their minds. * played guitar, announces return to DC next day. Marching band plays in Biloxi.

Aug. 31: today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Katrina seems to be fair.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/KATRINA.shtml? if you're one that requires primary sources.