The Political Chase

Bush Has Fuzzy Katrina Memory

George Bush comparing the government’s handling of the fires in California to Hurricane Katrina:

It makes a significant difference when you have somebody in the Statehouse willing to take the lead.

Rotten to the core.

The notion of using either situation for political fodder is reprehensible, but if Bush cannot control his obsessive-compulsive behavior, he could at least get the facts straight.

So far, there have been roughly 1,875 homes destroyed by the California wildfires; a White House report says 300,000 homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by the storm. In California, fires consumed roughly 475,000 acres; more than 52 million acres were affected in the Gulf Coast.

President Bush reviews Katrina damage from Air Force One