I heard the NOLA mayor "taking action" and "issuing orders." You folks aren't giving him his due!
(1) He had his chain of communication alive and well by Thursday night last week, even commandeering a late-night open mike on radio station WWL to issue his commands.
(2) He told his White House butler, some lowly named Bush, to "Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."
Now that's taking control! That's assuming authority!
I, for one, think that the NOLA mayor's post-facto Greyhound plan just might have worked.
I think there was only one slight flaw. Greyhound drivers have the actual audacity to ask where they're driving to. And, as of Thursday-Friday of last week, the Astrodome was filling fast and there weren't a whole lot of other sister-city arrangements yet forged by mayoral planners.
Liberal politicians see their elected offices simply as sinecures that give them a lot of face time in front of TV cameras and microphones. The New Orleans debacle shows what happens when the unfortunate populace depends on liberal popinjays--talkers, not doers--when critical decisions need to be made. The mayor of New Orleans likely was shacked up with some honey in a Baton Rouge hotel when the execution of the disaster recovery plan needed to be kicked off. Notice how quickly this jerk started pointing the finger at the federal government--and the MSM was right there to echo his charges.