[smonk]

I think mayor mccheese was probably more to blame, but she still blew it big time.

[StJacques]

Mayor Nagin made a lot of mistakes, but he had no legal authority to enforce an evacuation order unless Gov. Blanco made her declaration, which she waited until 20 hours before the storm hit to do so.

I know a lot of people outside Louisiana might not see this, but Mayor Nagin is paying the price for decades of mismanagement and corruption by the Morial political machine which preceded him. I'm not sympathetic to Nagin by any means, but Kathleen Blanco is purely and simply boardwood dumb. Her incompetence and ineptitude are unbelievable.

[raisincane]

The ease of evacuations from FL and TX made the LA evacuations look like the disaster it was. Blankity Blank deserves lots of blame.
IMHO...After that televised cop beating, the NO folks may never return.