I like Bush's style, not his substance

You have to love President Bush's style. He is down-to-earth everyday-kind of guy. He wore no suit and appeared to the TV camera from the heart of Hurricane Katrina-ravaged area, the French quarter in New Orleans last night, to take personal responsibility for the failure in Katrina preparation and rescue, and promise to shower money on the private contractors who will help re-build the city. He spoke no non-sense. He cares not the poll. He takes action immediately. He follows his principles, unfortunately many of which are wrong or mis-guided.

But that is it. The style, not substance. His idea about goverment is simply wrong. He has such a cynical view about the ability of government to perform any function, that he outsourced many critical federal government functions to private contractors. He downgraded FEMA(Federal Emergency Management Agency) to a sub-division of the Department of Homeland Security. He did not believe FEMA has any real role that he put a friend of his, Michael Brown, who has no experience in emergency management, as the head of FEMA.

The failure in the response to Katrina was almost inevitable, because Bush did not have a belief in government 's roles. His cynism towards government has costed lives in New Orleans. But remember, more lives are lost, and being lost in Afghanistan and Iraq.