Leaked: President Katrina Speech Talkers (9/15/05)

The talking points memo distributed to conservative pundits in anticipation of Bush's prime time speech this evening. It's like watching tomorrow's FOXNews telecast today!

*America and the Gulf Coast are recovering from one of the greatest natural disasters this country has ever faced.

*Tonight President Bush will talk about how there is some optimism that we can see as we move forward. We're going to build a better Gulf Coast, a better New Orleans and we'll work with local officials to make sure thathappens.

*This will be a massive funding effort at every level of government. We shouldn't just look at government - we're seeing private charities, and theAmerican people's enormous compassion.

*There were breakdowns of communication and planning at all levels of government - federal, state and local levels. It is very critical we learnwhy those breakdowns took place in the first place.

Many parts of this will be chalked up to the fact it was one of the worst storms our country has ever faced. But there were things in a post-9/11 world that our government at all levels should be doing better and President Bush more than anybody else wants to find out why it took placeand how it took place to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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