Question

Why was president George w bush criticized during his second term?

a) he passed the no child left behind act
b) the republicans mishandled the second election
c) the government responded poorly to hurricane Katrina
d) his administration failed to reform the health care system

Answer 1

c) the government responded poorly to hurricane Katrina

Step-by-step explanation:

Bush managed to defeat Democratic Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, a vote with relatively tight results that allowed him to start a second term. Bush had to face increasing criticism from across the political spectrum for his handling of the Iraq war and the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. In the midst of these events, the Democratic Party regained control of Congress in the 2006 legislative elections. In December 2007, the United States entered its greatest economic contraction since the end of the Second World War, a period often referred to as "Great Recession », which forced the Bush administration to launch, with the approval of Congress, multiple economic programs aimed at saving from the collapse of the country's financial system, which included nationalization for the injection of funds from some of the major national banks and companies.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C. President George W. Bush was criticized during his second term because the government responded poorly to hurricane Katrina.

As the actual extent of the disaster in New Orleans was quantified, critics accused Bush of misrepresenting his government's role by seeing a wrong response in his reaction. Bush was attacked for having promoted seemingly incompetent leaders to positions of power within FEMA, especially Michael D. Brown, and was accused of limiting the federal response to the Iraq War, and that Bush himself had not responded to flood warnings. Bush responded to growing criticism by accepting full responsibility for the failures of the federal government in handling the emergency, and it has been argued that after Katrina, the presidency of Bush had a political turning point from which would never recover.