Nagin's Failure

Bill Hobbs ^ | September 2, 2005 | Bill Hobbs

[george76]

This AP photo shows scores of New Orleans school buses sitting in flood waters after Hurricane Katrina - sitting where they sat instead of being used to evacuate thousands of poor people before Katrina hit.

Why are scores of school buses sitting in the flood waters of New Orleans today? Blame New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who is one reason things have gotten worse, not better, in his stricken city since it was hit by Hurricane Katrina. His laissez faire approach to looting allowed the looters to become increasingly armed and violent, interrupting rescue and recovery operations.

But even before Katrina hit, he failed his poorest citizens horribly. He told them to evacuate the city - and then gave his city's poorest residence no way to do so.

Nagin lashed out at federal officials yesterday for the government's relief efforts, pleading for the government to round up "500 buses" to send to New Orleans to evacuate survivors.

But Nagin, who ordered a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans before Katrina hit, ought to be made to answer this question: Where are the buses of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority? Under water? Destroyed? Why?

[finnman69]

Buses sitting in Lake Nagin

[EagleUSA]

His laissez faire approach to looting allowed the looters to become increasingly armed and violent, interrupting rescue and recovery operations.
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You elect a scumbag, you get scumbag behavior and performance. There are no free lunches. The voters of N.O. should look a bit closer AT WHAT they put into the mayor's office.

[Arkie2]

Do you think the MSM is finally catching on?

[zahal724]

His laissez faire approach to looting allowed the looters to become increasingly armed and violent, interrupting rescue and recovery operations.

Hmmm...this seems like a rather odd usage of the phrase...

[nmh]

Ain't that the truth!

He's a lowdown liberal who now lashes out at others trying to pick up the pieces. He made a colossal mess of things. God only knows how many died because of his arrogant stupidity.

[Indy Pendance]

Here's the thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475574/posts

[jimboster]

No. This is not an AP story. It only references a photo of some flooded school buses.

[Arkie2]

Oops. Sorry, I thought this was an MSM story. For a moment there I was hopeful.

[Echo Talon]

[Dane]

[dts32041]

This will be buried in about two hours won't get much play cause it doesn't fit in with the MSM and FNC view of the NOLA failure to act.

[nmh]

He's corrupt and winks at crime on normal days so in days of desperate people ... he's not going to change course.

[Salvation]

It's gotten plenty of play today. And I sent it to Brit hume.

Probably on five or six threads.

[MichiganMan]

Do you think the MSM is finally catching on?

That they had better start covering for incompetant Democrats that were actually in charge of the area? Yeah, I think they've been on to that one since the day of the levee break.

[Waco]

Don't ever ever ever ever put a RAT in charge of ANYTHING! They'll swear to it too!

[Dog Gone]

Where are the buses of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority?

The buses appear to be school buses, not part of the RTA system.

They obviously should have been made available, but when dissing your opponent, being factual is important.

[dts32041]

Yeah good old Brit where has he been for the past couple of days looks like he took a long weekend after his vacation.

[swheats]

Nigan should be put on suicide watch. To hear from O'reilly about the 80 seniors in the nursing home who died was hard. Deriliction of duty.