Most Believe Bush Administration Lacks Katrina Plan (ABC/WP poll)

[Rose Siding]

Sept. 12, 2005 -- Most Americans say the Bush administration doesn't have a clear plan for dealing with Katrina's aftermath, and a majority now holds a negative view of the president's handling of the situation — although attitudes remain deeply divided by partisanship.

More than six in 10 say the administration lacks a clear plan to handle the situation caused by the hurricane and subsequent flooding. The percentage of Americans who think there's no clear plan is somewhat higher now than it was in an ABC News/Washington Post poll on Sept. 2 when 80 percent of New Orleans was under water: Today, 63 percent say the administration lacks a plan, up from 55 percent.
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Overall, 54 percent disapprove of the way Bush is handling the post-Katrina situation; 44 percent approve. Since the last ABC/Post poll, disapproval is up by seven points while approval is relatively stable (it was 46 percent); today fewer are undecided about the job Bush is doing in this area. These numbers continue to reflect a deep partisan divide: Seven in 10 Republicans approve of the president's performance, compared to only 22 percent of Democrats.

Intensity is with Bush's detractors, as 39 percent strongly disapprove of his handling of the situation, while 24 percent strongly approve of what he's doing. Democrats are more apt to strongly disapprove of the president and Republicans are more apt to strongly approve. Independents are about twice as likely to strongly disapprove as to strongly approve.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=1117357&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[Pirate Smile]

1. "Blacks are more critical than whites of Bush's handling of the Katrina

aftermath, but that's largely a function of party affiliation: White Democrats are about as likely as black Democrats to disapprove of the president's performance in this area. "

[Merlot]

3. If those blacks were repubs, I'm sure they'd approve

Of course, they'd be the blacks less affected by Katrina, but that's not the point. The point is really that dems are always looking to disaprove of the prez. Those dems want a partisian divide that really, really has nothing to do with the prez actual performance, and more to do with dems.

just reading between the lines....

[Pirate Smile]

6. I thought it was important to point out that Dems both black and white

were almost equally critical of the response. There isn't a racial gap between Democrats. That was what I thought was the important point.

I think on this issue the Democrats disapprove based on his performance and nothing else. It was unbelievably shocking.

I can't believe you think the Democrats disapproved just based on partisanship. You aren't a Democrat, are you? You think Democrats watched the days following Katrina and were thinking of the partisan divide? That is bullshit.

[Merlot]

9. Guess I should have used the "sarcasm" button with my post...

[Pirate Smile]

10. Oh, good. I was surprised.

Sorry if I took it the wrong way.

[Merlot]

13. No worries.

I read these articles with phrases like "intensity is with Bush's detractors." Makes it sound like we disaprove because we don't like bush, as opposed to dissaproving because he's doing a crappy job. I'd like to read something like " bushs die-hard supporters still approve of his performance, despite facts to the contrary."

It's a subtle form of bias.

[koopie57]

14. *LOL*

one time I wrote "I'm sure that I read a passage in the bible that said don't feed the hungry or cloth the poor cuz it will only encourage them". I didn't think a sarcasm note was needed, but it was. Someone was not happy with me.

[Pirate Smile]

15. Well, when it comes to bashing Democrats or attributing the worst

motives to them, that seems to happen here regularly so I can't assume it is sarcastic.

Your comment, I would get the irony but there are a lot of posters that seem to hate the Democrats as much or more then the Republicans so ....

:hi:

[cloud_chaser1]

2. HOW CAN THEY HAVE A PLAN

when they have no people with the experience in this sort of thing, who know enough to draw up a plan. I'm not even thrilled with the Coast Guard Admiral who took over for that idiot Brownie. I have no assurance that he has the correct experience either.

They could have called back James Lee Witt who is an experienced crisis manager but because he worked during the Clinton years as head of FEMA, he was obviously disqualified by our "leader!"

Hell, with earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides and all the rest, maybe some college or university might begin a degree course in civil catastrophes so there would be a pool of experts to call on in the future. It sure would be better than having rescuers stand around with nothing to do because those in "command" have no clue what to do.

[Merlot]

4. Not having a plan is their plan.

[Rose Siding]

7. Instead, the disaster plan they have (and they do have one!)...

concerns their own political disaster. Laid out in Time:

By late last week, Administration aides were describing a three-part comeback plan. The first: Spend freely, and worry about the tab and the consequences later.....

The second tactic could be summed up as, Don't look back. The White House has sent delegates to meetings in Washington of outside Republican groups who have plans to blame the Democrats and state and local officials......

The third move: Develop a new set of goals to announce after Katrina fades. Advisers are proceeding with plans to gin up base-conservative voters for next year's congressional midterm elections with a platform that probably will be focused around tax reform....

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1103581,00.html

Nada-zip-zilch about improved disaster response that would benefit people -oddly, as that's one govt responsbility about which nearly everyone agrees!

Welcome to DU, cloud_chaser1 :hi:

[SillyGoose]

5. Oh, they have a plan alright. Its called Halliburton and the suspension of

the Davis-Bacon act. Silly pollsters!

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8. FYI - the rest of the poll #'s will come out at 5:00 pm today.

"These results are from an ABC News/Washington Post poll on Hurricane Katrina and other topics that will be released in its entirety at 5 p.m. today. The poll was conducted by telephone Sept. 8-11, 2005, among a random national sample of 1,201 adults, including an oversample of 200 black respondents. The results have a three-point error margin. Fieldwork by TNS of Horsham, PaA. "

[Beetwasher]

11. Link Not Working

n/t

[Pirate Smile]

12. Hmmmm. It worked for me twice. Try this one.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=1117357&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[Javaman]

16. A follow up question should be....

If you believe that the president didn't have a plan in place for a catagory 5 Hurricane hitting N.O., do you believe that he has a plan for a terrorist attack on the U.S.?

hmmmm, NO!!!

colossal racist failure*.