GOP senator: Bush handled Katrina better than Obama handling spill [View All]

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Source: The Hill


GOP senator: Bush handled Katrina better than Obama handling spill
By Michael O'Brien - 06/18/10 08:05 AM ET

President George W. Bush displayed better leadership during Hurricane Katrina than President Barack Obama has during the oil-spill crisis, a Republican senator said Friday.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) compared the two disasters to have devastated the Gulf Coast, especially in Louisiana, inasmuch as he thought Bush had handled his crisis better.

"Remember the criticism George Bush got during Katrina? They said it was a lack of leadership," Inhofe told the conservative Newsmax magazine in an interview. "Let me tell you, that leadership looks pretty good right now."

Republicans have been somewhat reluctant to explicitly link the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis to Hurricane Katrina, a major natural disaster for which Bush was heavily criticized for a perceived lack of responsiveness.

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