Bush: To the extent we can, we’ll help
Ahhhhhh you’re the friggin President stupid. You promised these people you’d rebuild the Gulf Coast. You send billions of dollars overseas to the black hole known as Iraq….. and spend billions of dollars on your covert mission to make Iran look like the boogie man……but 18 months later and New Orleans still looks like a war zone. Yah…. you really friggin care. You understand there are frustrations, and you want to KNOW of the frustrations……but ya don’t want to understand the frustration yourself or do anything about it. God this man makes me toilet bowl huggin sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - President George W. Bush faced new pressure to jump’start the recovery from Hurricane Katrina on Thursday as he toured the Gulf Coast region hit by the worst U.S. natural disaster.

Eighteen months after the 2005 hurricane, analysts say tens of thousands of people remain displaced and more than half of the schools in the New Orleans area are still closed, a grim reminder of the toll on the region.

“I certainly understand that there are frustrations and I want to know the frustrations. To the extent we can, we’ll help,” Bush said as he sat down to lunch with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu and other elected officials at a Creole restaurant near the French Quarter.

Wayne Baquet, owner of the Lil Dizzy’s Cafe, said it was important for Bush to sound the message that government red tape must be overcome. “Very important that he makes noise about it because it’s taking too long to get to the people,” he said.

Bush was on his first trip to the area in six months and 14th overall to check up on the recovery from a storm that caught his administration off guard from the very start.

A report by the Institute of Southern Studies said the Gulf Coast is still in crisis, with more than half the schools in New Orleans still closed, and that the region’s recovery has been stalled due to a lack of housing, jobs and other basic needs.

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