The president’s carelessness, the risk of a civil war in Iraq, and the contradictory statements the president made on the measures adopted to prevent the effects of Hurricane Katrina boost the democrats’ chances in this year’s legislative elections to renew Congress.

The president’s carelessness, the risk of a civil war in Iraq, and the contradictory statements the president made on the measures adopted to prevent the effects of Hurricane Katrina boost the democrats’ chances in this year’s legislative elections to renew Congress. President Bush’s popularity has hit its lowest level since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. Congress is even considering a censure bill.

A tape of a video-conference in which Bush, on the eve of the arrival of the hurricane, is warned by government officials of the potential consequences of a major hurricane, to which he responds that the government was ready for the storm and its aftermath, has just been released. At the time of the disaster, with more than 1,300 casualties and thousands of injured, Bush argued that the intensity of the phenomenon had been unanticipated and that the government was not prepared to deal with a disaster of such magnitude.

Even sectors of his own Republican Party are keeping a safe distance from the president in order not to lose votes in the approaching elections and beginning to talk about a Senator McCaine candidacy for the 2008 presidential race, while inside the Bush circle Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice begins to move. Should she strengthen her candidacy, her opponent might be no one other than democrat Hillary Clinton. (Read more in Ralph Nader’s article “Bush at the Tipping Point – A Lawless and Incompetent Leadership”).