Gary Ackerman: Bush's Leadership 'Totally Inept'

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Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005 10:52 p.m. EDT

Gary Ackerman: Bush's Leadership 'Totally Inept'

Rep. Gary Ackerman blasted President Bush on Saturday for his handling of the New Orleans hurricane disaster, even as most elected Democrats kept political gamesmanship on hold.

"The leadership of the president - and this has nothing to do with [him] being a Republican, it just has to do with, I believe, the whole administration including the president - has been totally inept," Ackerman told WABC Radio.

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The New York Democrat predicted that Congress "will have a lot of hearings" on the Katrina disaster.

Ackerman was troubled, he said, by an apparent connection between the administration's slow response and the fact that most New Orleans flood victims were black.

"All of us have this nagging concern that if it were an upscale white neighborhood there would have been a greater sense of urgency," he said.

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