Who Should Bush Help?

This from an excellent post at Capitol Hill Blue.

The White House has rejected hurricane disaster-recovery loans at a higher rate than any other administration in the last 15 years, according to a congressional study by Democrats.

The report, expected to be released Wednesday, said business and home loan approval rates averaged about 60 percent after Hurricane Andrew devastated much of south Florida in 1992. The trend continued through the rest of President George H.W. Bush's administration and into the Clinton administration, according to Democratic members of the House Small Business Committee.

After Hurricane Wilma surged ashore in south Florida last year, the approval rate for low-interest, taxpayer-guaranteed loans by the Small Business Administration had dropped to barely 15 percent. Overall, Democrats said, approval rates for home and business disaster loans since 2004 have averaged about 35 percent.

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The SBA has tripled its staff over the past year to deal with the series of major Gulf Coast hurricanes. Despite the increase _ from 1,500 employees to 4,500 _ the report found the agency's approval rate has continued to drop with each disaster.

Where to start?

Where's the compassion?

Why are Bush's approval numbers falling?

Whatever happened to smaller government?

Why does this administration hate Americans?

Did the response to Wilma piss of brother Jeb?

How can the Dems, come the mid-terms, give the Repugs a pass on disaster relief?

Oh, they will, but just how?

I wish someone would step in and offer to initiate a class action suit on behalf of these people.

The moral repugnance of this is breathtaking. These people don't have money, influence, oil or power so they can be written off.

Well, someone should remind the Repugs that these people do have votes. And I'm hopeful those votes won't be going to the red team.