Who was responsible for Katrina: Bush or Obama?

[Valigarmander]

Seems like an easy question, but it has Louisiana Republicans stumped.

A  significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government's post-Katrina blunders.

Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible. Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren't sure who to blame.

Bush was criticized heavily when he did not immediately return to Washington from his vacation in Texas after the storm had reached landfall. The government was also slow to provide relief aid and Michael Brown, then-director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), admitted in a televised interview that he learned that many of the storm's victims at the New Orleans Convention Center were without food and water well after the situation had been reported in the press.

Brown's handling of the response ultimately led to his resignation, but Bush offered an infamous endorsement of the FEMA chief only days before he stepped down. 

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," Bush said.

[surly74]

this should surprise me but it doesn't.

[Solitary]

Isn't it amazing how southern Republicans can rewrite history like the funda"mental"ist Christians do. I wonder if there is a connection? Solitary

[surly74]

aren't they one and the same?

[billhilly]

Blaming Obama is beyond stupid and probably takes the same kind of thinking required to believe in a 6000 year old earth and talking snakes.

Of course these are the same people who live on the coast in hurricane alley, below sea level, right next to a giant fucking lake, and yet still act surprised when their city gets FUBAR'd.

[PopeyesPappy]

Oh come on guys. Oh course it was Obama's fault. Ya'll know Jesus knew NO was going to vote for the black man in the next election so he did what he could to wipe it off the map before they had the chance.

[Solitary]

aren't they one and the same?

I'm not sure, It does seem like Christians like porn just like the politicians do though.  :shock:    Solitary

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Hoover or Roosevelt responsible for the great depression? It was probably Truman's fault..

[Solitary]

Blaming Obama is beyond stupid and probably takes the same kind of thinking required to believe in a 6000 year old earth and talking snakes.

Of course these are the same people who live on the coast in hurricane alley, below sea level, right next to a giant fucking lake, and yet still act surprised when their city gets FUBAR'd.

I haven't hear that expression in a long time. And don't forget the talking donkeys and a woman made from a rib. Why would an all powerful God need a rib to make a woman? Religion isn't as stupid as it is "silly". :Hangman:   :roll:  Solitary

[Colanth]

And then people (mostly in other countries) wonder why people who have the intelligence of acorns get elected to public office in the US.  (And I apologize to the Oak ethnicity.)

[Jason78]

Who was responsible for Katrina: Bush or Obama?

Trick question.  It was the gays.

[Atheon]

It's because Republicans are stupid.

[aileron]

If we could harness the animosity of Republicans to Obama we could be energy independent.

[Shiranu]

Damn, Katrina not Sandy. Never mind... I was going to come in here and be all smart and say how it was both's fault...

Way to crush my dreams.

[Shiranu]

Damn, Katrina not Sandy. Never mind... I was going to come in here and be all smart and say how it was both's fault...

Way to crush my dreams.