Louisiana is one of the worst run states in the union, they have squandered federal funds, and they try to lay this at the feet of the federal government.
I just heard this morning that in a city surrounded on 3 sides the city only had 3 boats and 2 of them weren't working!!!!!
She knows that the real blame lands at the feet of the state and local authorities, which are all corrupt democrats, and she is trying to nip that blame in the bud before it starts. The republicans are dumb enough to fall for it. Republican leaders should be out right now countering all the blame by blaming the state and local democrats. If the MSM and the democrats are blaming republicans, it is fair game to go after the local democrats and that is where the blame should go anyway.
Landrieu threatened to punch the President of the United States of America?
And she is defending the New Orleans police? The same police who either didn't show up or literally walked off the job?
OMG
This isn't the same NOPD that has been routinely investigated for corruption, is it?
Looks like the guilt of all the LA officials is really starting to get to all of them. Must be getting pretty difficult for them to sleep at night.
Ah yes, the good Senator ... another bag of used food emoting in order to defend the indefensible.
Carl....did you watch Bush tour LA Friday...if you did, you noticed that Mary was always in the background, never center stage...at first I didn't realize who that blonde was tagging along...she felt slighted IMHO..
Everybody who should be staying calm and focused down there seems to be coming unhinged instead. Not good.
Bush Slashed the Tires on These Buses so the Mayor of New Orleans Couldn't Use Them to Evacuate Black People
Posted by Steve H. at 10:39 AM | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0) Posted to category The Loony Left September 02, 2005 http://www.hogonice.com/
The lunatic left speaks again. Is she Howard Dean's sister? The Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana were unprepared. They failed to evacuate the city.
I certainly hope that the people of the state of Lousiana unelect her.
they had plenty of money to fix the levees with... but they were to busy building casinos and buying jet planes for the levee board to vacation in to use it for the levees.
And by the way, one of the levees that broke was brand new. And any levee they built would have only been rated for a cat 3 storm not a 5.
Landreiu burst into tears? Another estrogen queen! God Help Louisiana. (Through His humble servant, George Bush)
This lame excuse for a human being needs to ponder the depths of the meaning of "personal character". As she has none it will be an enlightening experience. Yet perhaps she is content to sling pathetic, self-indulgent sound bites over the bodies of the rotting dead in NOLA.
The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.
Not wanting to be sexist so it is only fair to point out that the mayor of New Orleans has busted out bawling several times during this crisis.
One of the jobs I had as a senior NCO was to keep an eye on my officers. One young captain, a fine man who I would follow in to battle to this day, had reached a breaking point due to stress and exhaustion. When I saw what was coming, I got him to a private place where he could lose it out of sight of the troops. He regained his composure and the rank and file still had the myth of the CO as an "iron man" to follow.
Perhaps some of these political types could use an old sergeant on the staff.
"If one person criticizes [our sheriffs], or says one more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me - one more word about it after this show airs and I - I might likely have to punch him - literally," Landrieu railed on "ABC's "This Week."
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But the world will note that the constant criticism has been squarely directed at Bush the entire week while the liberal DNC'rs have remained in their suits, hundreds of miles away in air conditioned buildings. Senator "Mary" needs to get off her cross and get down on the front lines of the Relief sites instead of wasting precious time kavetching like a child whose lollipop is broken.
Cover your ass tears. Nagin and Blanco are to blame and she knows it, thus this RAT defensive mechanism:
From post # 151 from this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476911/posts?page=151#151
Piece of the puzzle #6 pointing to Nagin and Blanco as the real disasters and the blame for the tragedy:
1] Failed to learn lessons from Ivan
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/091904ccktWWLIvanFlaws.132602486.html
2] Failed to heed warning from President Bush's--the President ordered Blanco to evacuate before the storm hit.
#3] Failed to heed the Director of National Weather Ser., who called Nagin Sat night, shocked that Nagin failed to heed warnings and pleaded with him to get the evacuation starte
#4] Demographic info (and photots) proving that Nagin had more busses per person than your typical city (based on demographic data) and photos proving busses lined up in mass, drowned in water since Nagin failed to utilize them.
See posts #54 and #34 at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476006/posts?page=54#54
#5] Welfare checks were set to be delivered arond the same time as Katrina was expected, a major reason why the people did not evacuate. Nagin failed to take this into account. He could have promised the people that they woudl be taken care of and urged them /FORCED THEM, to tleave the city.
Until TV or radio transcripts can be pulled showing Nagin pleading with people to evacuate, and until we see film footage of policemen forcibly moving people onto busses to get them out, we can't remove this blame from the local officials.
#6] And now this. Just think--Blanco just named Witt to head up another task force! Morons doing more moronic things.
Clearly, the blame falls on the Numnut Nagin and Bozo Blanco.
What major piece has been left off this list? Anybody?
END of post from other thread
Are the NO mayor and Landreiu both on crack or are they just incompetent, low class and uncivilized?