Posted on 09/09/2005 6:58:46 PM PDT by Pikamax
I like that saying ..nice one ..
Did he not see the movie, "GET ON THE BUSS"
Excusing one creep by blaming another creep, give me a freaken break.
Pic of a rogues gallery.
It's called sepuku mayor.
Get a life, you are writing like a NO city official, or maybe someone on a Parrish levee board?
BS, get real, the LA government said if Nagin wanted to order a mandatory evacuation,(this even before Katrina hit) of NO, he had the power to do so.
Was told by the wife tonight that if I didn't back off on this thing, I was going to have an angerism. :>)
Actually, the man has a good point. Nagin could have loaded up the buses and shipped some people out. But to where? If there Governor didn't have adequate shelters for his people, where was he supposed to send them? Just drop them all off on a street corner somewhere? It's easy to say "he could have sent them to Houston." But could he really? Would they have taken them last Saturday?
"Nagin could have loaded up the buses and shipped some people out. But to where?"
Were they just now considering this?
I thought the Mayor and city officials had been studying a possible hurricane hit for years. The buses were mentioned in their "plan," weren't they? Surely they thought about where the buses would go....
"[Nagin] don't control nothing but New Orleans."
This is why, despite any failings on the part of others, it is at the bottom line: BLANCO'S FAULT!
"Aaron Broussard, the Jefferson Parish president, told CBS News that the federal government would have to be held accountable for what happened." Somewhere there is a story about the nursing home manager that turned away the buses sent to help Mr. Broussard's friend's mother. Broussard cried during his interview, because he did not have all the facts. He blamed the President and FEMA because he did not know that the nursing home was responsible for the death of its weakest people.
Please don't forget Governor Blanco or is it Governor "Blunder"?
Most of the buses are sittiing in 2 feet of water and have no damage. It is an expensive proposition to mobilize hundreds of buses. NOLA has never deployed their buses to evacuate for any hurricane. Saves money.
Most of the buses are sittiing in 2 feet of water and have no damage. It is an expensive proposition to mobilize hundreds of buses. NOLA has never deployed their buses to evacuate for any hurricane. Saves money.
"Where are we going to send them?" - This is an excuse being tossed about by Democrats to mitigate the mayor's negligence. The buses could have taken people to higher ground, to the Superdome, or for that matter, to the yard where the buses are located now. They are in 2-3 feet of water and not damaged by the storm. At least many people who drowned would have be alive. Uncomfortable, but alive is always the better option.
He's also the FEMA director for the current hurrcane response in Mississippi and Alabama, which, AFAIK, is going much better than it is in Louisiana.
It is good to see a few questions being raised, though this is a truly incompetent article!!! The reporter manages to omit any references to the FACTs that city planners had already witnessed similar kinds of problems with George and Ivan, already knew they needed to utilize their own BUSES, already wrote an EMERGENCY PLAN which the reporter seems not to know about. Serious questions would be raised by a real reporter -- this guy is just another MSM puff-artist. WHY DIDN'T THE MAYOR AND GOVERNOR ORDER THE EVAC ON SATURDAY, WHY DIDN'T THEY USE THE HUNDREDS OF BUSES AVAILABLE TO THEM, etc. etc.??
Ray Nagin has just bought a home in Dallas. Can anyone imagine Rudy Giuliani, within less than two weeks of 9/11, buying a home in Connecticut???
Granted, I understand he had to find a good place for his family and arrange school etc. Since NOLA will not be functional for quite awhile the analogy with 9/11 is not a close one, BUT, I am talking about leadership. Instead of keeping his family somewhere within the state of LA, which surely would have been possible, he is making a statement for anyone who cares to notice that he has already prepared his own "exit strategy."
Rudy Giuliani he is not.
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