[chet_in_ny]

Given the title of the article, looks like quote manipulation by 1010 WINS... although Bloomberg is in an election year in this Leninite city.

[dfwgator]

Et tu Bloomberg?

[AFreeBird]

Gee Michael, how may disasters (other than those of your own making) have you had to deal with?

Let's hear from Rudy.

[faithincowboys]

What a RINO lowflife. He's from Massachussetts and he is just a nebbishy douche bag.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

"It would appear, and I think the president acknowledged, that the federal government's response has been inadequate," Bloomberg told reporters at City Hall.

Wrong. The president said the response has been inadequate. He did not say whether it was Federal/State/Local.

[GreenAccord]

Citizen: Mayor an incompetent boob.

End of response.

[hiredhand]

Mayor Nagin, and everybody else following the badness after Katrina in NOLA, needs to read THIS...

http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026

[Rome2000]

Bloomberg deserves New York and New York deserves Bloomberg.

[brytlea]

I have noticed that dems don't tend to eat their own, but repubs do. What the heck is wrong with these people?
susie

[Cboldt]

"It would appear, and I think the president acknowledged, that the federal government's response has been inadequate," Bloomberg told reporters at City Hall.

It would appear, Mr. Bloomberg, that you are an idiot. While the President said the response was unacceptable, he meant (and was kind enough to not name names) that Louisiana officials were standing in the way of relief efforts - BLOCKING relief is unacceptable, wouldn't you agree Mr. Bloomberg?

I detest these creeps.

[Sometimes A River]

Bush himself said the same thing, didn't he?

[RGSpincich]

Bloomberg said he has reached out to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, but has not been able to get in touch.

Neither one of them could hit their ass with both hands.

[etcetera]

Pres. Bush is too much of a gentleman to point fingers. He'll let the facts come out as the city dries out.

[_Jim]

And Bloomberg failed to see the real problem; expect something to happen and "Bloomberg" will end up eating his own words ...

[sheik yerbouty]

He's a little man with little brains.

[bvw]

Right, it's spin of the headlines. I do not see in that article Bloomie saying "failed" or "failure" -- he just repeats Bush's own phrase "inadequate response". That is not a failure. Bush meant the response can be improved, that as reports came out more of a response earlier would have been helpful. A forward-looking committment to action by Bush, not a backward-looking casting of blame.

[js1138]

In a few weeks the troops working their asses off in NOLA asnd Mississippi will be heading home, and will have some choice words for the people who said they screwed up.

[LowNslow]

New Orleans Hurricane Evacuation Plan on city website calls for mandatory evacuation to begin 72hrs prior to hurricane arrival. Plan includes use of school and city buses, and other public vehicles to evacuate those without transportation.

Mayor call for evacuation 18 hrs before Hurricane Katrina hit, but only after Hurricane Center and White House pleaded for action.

Why did Mayor not have families of police and other emergency service personnel evacuated to safe locations.
Hard to get people to report and stay on duty when family is in danger.

From my past experience, it takes Guard 48-72 hours to get completely into the action. Why did the LA Gov not have a majority of Guard called up and ready to move out before cat 5 Hurricane Katrina hit.

[Travis McGee]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

[planekT]

"It would appear, and I think the president acknowledged, that the federal government's response has been inadequate,"

Inadequate? Compared to the non-response of the Governor of Louisiana and the Mayor of New Orleans (except to lay blame anywhere but their own feet) this is a compliment.

[patriciaruth]

From NOLA website:

Nagin singled out Gov. Kathleen Blanco for criticism,
saying that the governor had asked for 24 hours to
think over a decision when time was a luxury that no
one, especially refugees, had.

“When the president and the governor got here, I said,
'Mr. President, Madame Governor, you two have to get
in synch. If you don't, more people are going to die.”

Blanco and Bush met privately at his insistence, Nagin
said, after which Bush came out and told Nagin that he
had given Blanco two options, and she requested a full
day to decide.

“It would have been great if we could have walked off
Air Force One and told the world we had it all worked
out,” Nagin said. “It didn't happen, and more people
died.”