Bush takes shot at Blanco while touring wildfires

[ariesgem]

BATON ROUGE --As the California wildfires continued to rage Thursday, so too did the political feud between President Bush and Gov. Kathleen Blanco that has smoldered since the federal government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina.

The latest flare-up came when Bush, while touring the California disaster area, took an apparent swipe at Blanco's post-Katrina leadership as he complimented California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"It makes a significant difference when you have somebody in the statehouse willing to take the lead," Bush said, according to the Associated Press.

The president's statement, coming from a White House that seems determined to avoid a repeat in California of the public-relations disaster that followed Katrina, brought a swift response from Blanco.

In a statement forwarded by her press office, Blanco noted that it took federal forces nearly a week to arrive in Louisiana after the storm. "I was the only game in town, leading for nearly a week without the president's help," Blanco said.

"Of all the lessons learned from Katrina now being put into place in California, I would hope the one he would remember is that politics has no place in any disaster," she added, before taking a shot at the slow manner in which promised federal aid has been delivered.

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Asked to compare the two disasters, Bush said it's a job better left to historians.

http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/blanco_responds_to_bush_commen.html

[baldguy]

1. George W Bush is an 8-yr old boy.

A spoiled & ill-mannered one at that.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Gee and no mention of the fiasco that Arnold

had with all the fire fighting airplanes and water busses he left sitting for two day. Which in all probability would have contained some of the fires before they got caught up in the Santa Ana winds. Gee he forgot that,

[BuyingThyme]

3. How do we know he really said that?

Or that he really went to California?

[Neecy]

4. Yeah...

Guess other people have to 'take the lead' because Bush and his incompetent government sure won't.

Blanco's political career is over and he still can't resist piling on. Typical Bush lack of class.

[deutsey]

5. I knew he was going to use this as a partisan attack

He is a snide, petty, consciousless little man.

[lpbk2713]

6. This small and petty loser is only living up to his expectations.

No one should expect any better of him by now. He has had seven years to prove what a "Miserable Failure" he is.

[aquart]

7. It's not like anyone will like him less.

[KamaAina]

8. Great Scott! They already ruined her by shifting blame to her in the first place.

But apparently that wasn't enough. Then again, we already knew they were a bunch of greedy little bastards, didn't we? :grr:

[saracat]

9. I heard that .That was disgusting.

[Catherine Vincent]

10. The nerve of that lazy, no good puke!

[applegrove]

11. What is it about "Give Me Everything You Got" that the WH didn't understand at the time?

[pitohui]

12. what a classless piece of human garbage

i don't even consider * on the level of a cockroach he is so low down and dirty

[Rex]

13. Don't worry Dubya, people will never forget what a huge loser you are.

Pathetic man from a pathetic family.

[Garbo 2004]

14. It makes a significant difference when you have a Pres who eats cake while people drown on TV. nt.