Posted on 09/11/2005 8:23:58 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 10:27 p.m. EDT Mary Landrieu: School Bus Failure Bush's Fault
It was the Bush administration's fault that hundreds of city school buses weren't dispatched to evacuate the hurricane-battered residents of New Orleans two weeks ago before floods swamped the city, Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu said Sunday.
Asked on "Fox News Sunday" why New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin failed to follow the city's evacuation plan and press the buses into service, Landrieu blamed Bush administration cuts in mass transit funding.
"Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, let alone getting them out of the city in front of a hurricane," she said. "And it's because this administration and administrations before them do not understand the difficulties that mayors . . . face." Landrieu then added: "In other words, this administration did not believe in mass transit. They won't even get people to work on a sunny day, let alone getting them out."
Saying she was unwilling to criticize Louisiana officials, the Louisiana Democrat insisted that Mayor Nagin's evacuation efforts had been a smashing success.
"Because the mayor evacuated the city, we had the best evacuation . . . of any evacuation I've seen. I'm 50 years old; I've never seen one any better," Landrieu told FNS.
That prompted FNS host Chris Wallace to remind: "But there were a hundred thousand people left in the city."
Landrieu once again blamed the White House, saying:
"They did [have] a hundred thousand people left in the city because this federal government won't support cities to evacuate people, whether it's from earthquakes, tornadoes, or hurricanes. And that's the truth."
Thanks for posting this unbelievable exchange in transcript form. I saw it on TV and was incredulous. I expected a pack of lies but this was an amazing assortment.
I loved it when she kept talking over Wallace and he finally said, "It works better if I ask questions."
New Orleans Ladies - Louisianna's LeRoux
Plantation Mentality should be the disease that has been brought to light as a result of Katrina.
He must have been sleeping it off, just like Kennedy.
I thought we agreed that "Bush's fault" was getting tired and overused when discussing problems that had nothing to do with the president.
Oh.....
"If Sen. Mary Landrieu were as good at busing black people to safety as she was at busing them to the polls to vote, none of them would have died."
Sen. Landrieu's stupidity is just....well....it's breathtaking.
My new tagline:
Not a nice enough bus............. Beggin' Nagin wants Greyhounds.
Moroon
Well, she IS a liberal, and liberalism is a mental illness, so that should answer your question.
I certainly hope someone in the RNC is compiling a list of all these assinine comments from these morons. It's time to quit turning the other cheek. It's time to expose these idiots. I want to see the Republicans get some stones and publically rebuke everyone of these insane dims. I know it will never happen.
It's the mayor's job to get people to work??? D@mn! And here I've been spending my own money on my own gas and getting myself to work all this time! Where do I complain? Who do I sue to get all that money back?
>>"I like when she danced the sidestep on why the Governor ..."
Now you see me, now you don't LOL!!!!
Wonder if anyone still rents "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"?<<
Honestly, that's all I could think of!
Ironically, it was Orleans Parish that manufactured the "votes" at the last hour to pull her out of Terrell's dust in that run-off election. She's a nasty b*tch and she showed her true colors then. Why should we expect anything different now? Intelligence isn't one of her strong suits either. The woman is sharp as a bowling ball.
That statement coming from a rat politician is about a believable as a used car salesman telling you he's honest.
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