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news.yahoo.com - 12/30/2008

Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina (AP)

— news.yahoo.com — AP - Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor ... (more) Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina (AP)

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The Associated Press: Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina

— google.com — 18 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the ... (more) The Associated Press: Ex-aides say Bush never recovered ...

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Ex-Bush aides say he never recovered from Katrina - Yahoo! News

— news.yahoo.com — WASHINGTON Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush , according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor ... (more) Ex-Bush aides say he never recovered from Katrina - ...

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Coulda Told You That
Talking Points Memo — Bush aides tell Vanity Fair that Katrina did him in.

Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... Former Bush aides Matthew Dowd and Dan Bartlett told Vanity Fair that Hurricane Katrina was the event that permanently wounded George W. Bush's credibility. "The president broke his bond with the public," said Dowd. "Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public." ...

Bush Done In By His Record
Pacific Views — ... TPM highlights a report by Vanity Fair that Bush aids believe Katrina was the nail in the coffin of Bush's ability to connect to the American public. No kidding. After all, Katrina was truly the topping on the cake of a year where Bush proved for once and all he didn't give a damn about real people. ...

Question of the Day
Matthew Yglesias — Spencer Ackerman asks the tough questions: Is comparing Bush to Sarah Palin more insulting to Bush or to Palin? I’m going to say “more insulting to Palin.” Palin’s something of a laughingstock, but Bush is a villain. I mean, he wrecked the world economy, he led to millions of Iraqis being forced to flee their homes, he’s a total disaster and a disgrace. Palin gave bad answers in TV interviews. There’s no real comparison. ...

No Churchill After All?
Talking Points Memo — From the AP ... Lawrence Wilkerson, top aide and later chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, said that as a new president, Bush was like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee whom critics said lacked knowledge about foreign affairs. When Bush first came into office, he was surrounded by experienced advisers like Vice President Dick Cheney and Powell, who Wilkerson said ended up playing damage control for the president. "It allowed everybody to believe that this Sarah Palin-like president -- because, ...

Quote For The Day II
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... "He became vice president well before George Bush picked him. And he began to manipulate things from that point on, knowing that he was going to be able to convince this guy to pick him, knowing that he was then going to be able to wade into the vacuums that existed around George Bush — personality vacuum, character vacuum, details vacuum, experience vacuum," - Lawrence Wilkerson on the protectorate of Dick Cheney. ...