Here is what the Galveston Texas school buses are doing as a hurricane approaches:
Caption: Galveston Independent School District buses carrying evacuees head north on I-45 in Galveston, Texas.
Here is what New Orleans did with their school buses:
This demonstrates that Republicans know how to take action, while the Democrats expect someone else to take responsibility.
This helps explain the latest poll:
As debate continues to rage over government response to Hurricane Katrina, the public clearly thinks New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin – not President Bush – is the one to blame, according to a new online poll by America Online.
With more than 589,000 responses in today's unscientific survey, 65 percent of participants rate Nagin's handling of the Katrina disaster as "poor."
Only 10 percent of AOL users said Nagin's response was "excellent," 13 percent called it "good," and 12 percent termed it "fair."
When asked who has done a better job during the crisis, 67 percent named President Bush, and only 33 percent chose Nagin.
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The New Orleans mayor, a Democrat, is now forever linked to images of flooded school buses – vehicles not deployed by him despite being part of the city's plan for evacuation in case of a disaster.
