Bush in New Orleans as Senators Release Report
President Bush, in an effort to look like he cares, visted New Orleans today for yet another photo-op.
Facing renewed criticism of his administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, President Bush came to this storm-ravaged city on Thursday promising to make federal rebuilding efforts "as efficient as possible" while signaling that his administration was listening to its critics.
"All of us in positions of responsibility appreciate those who are working to help us to understand how to do our jobs better," Mr. Bush said on a visit to the heavily damaged Lower Ninth Ward.
Mr. Bush’s trip was planned to highlight the progress of rebuilding efforts on the Gulf Coast and, this being National Volunteer Week, the role volunteers have played in them. But it came on a day that a panel of senators, in a bipartisan report, called the Federal Emergency Management Agency the living "symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy."
