Earth to Newt
No one who was paying attention believed the GOP could govern well, even before Katrina. All Katrina did was wake up the rest of the country (die-hard dittoheads and other hopeless wingnuts excluded) to the utter ineptitude of Bushco.
Katrina's Damage to Bush's Standing Still Haunts His Presidency
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Katrina's flood waters have long since receded. The human toll and political wreckage wrought by the killer storm continue to haunt George W. Bush almost a year later.Technorati Tags: Katrina, NOLA, Bush, inept, GOP
As the president and still-reeling Gulf Coast residents prepared to mark Katrina's anniversary, political experts say that dismay over Bush's response to the disaster continues to undermine public confidence in his managerial abilities.
``It was Katrina that broke the sense that the Republicans could govern well,'' former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an interview. Bush ``was still seen before Katrina as a relatively strong leader, and somewhere in this process there was a substantial erosion because Americans were shocked'' by the government's failure to perform.
