Much worse than first reported!
Where is G.W. Bush and why isn't he standing on a rescue vehicle in the middle of NO providing leadership and support? He is making the same mistake that his father made when Andrew hit Florida in 1992. He is setting himself up to be portrayed as yet another Nero. Either get out there, or deputize Guliani and get him in there. It seems like the mayor of No has vanished into oblivion, and the leadership void is just another aspect of the tragedy.
What are you smoking?????????
N O is being EVACUATED!
I saw the New Orleans mayor on one report. He kept glancing at a paper in front of him.. He did not know how to say the simplist of things about what was going on. He had somebody prepare a cheat sheet for him and read off of it, pretending to glance down and bow his head--there was a little valence type thing blocking his desk so you could not tell he had papers there, but it was obvious there was he could not even talk freely so he had to read off a script.
How embarrassing for New Orleans that you voted in an incompetent mayor and incompetent governor. You need leadership right now and you don;t have it.
No wonder they have to declare martial law. Put the Natioanl Guard in control of the martial law, not the mayor or governor.