[Galtoid]

Nagin should be prosecuted as well. Those were HIS buses sitting there. That was HIS plan to fill the Superdome, yet HE didn't stock it with food or water for four days.
THESE are HIS people. HE should face the death penalty.

[Dane]

New Orleans and Louisiana aren't third world, but fourth world.

CANCUN, Mexico - A massive evacuation of tourists in one of the world's largest resorts began Sunday, as hundreds of buses were dispatched to move tens of thousands of tourists away from Hurricane Emily, heading toward a direct hit on the coast. The very size of the task was daunting: about 500 buses were ordered to move 30,000 tourists in Cancun — part of a total of 70,000 to 80,000 mostly foreign tourists to be evacuated statewide to temporary shelters in ballrooms and convention centers.

[livius]

I think the difference is that Nagin was just incompetent (not a rare thing among pols) and Blanco was unabashedly obstructionist. It's one thing to be too dumb to know what to do and another to wilfully refuse to do what you are supposed to do.

[randog]

I think Nagin got the message after he made his now infamous radio address and Bush had a private meeting with him afterward. I'd have loved to have been a fly on that wall. Bush probably told him that his "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die" philosophy has come full circle. Guess what, Nagin--it's "tomorrow".

[CommieCutter]

Especially, when the evacuation plan called for the use of such buses. Prosecute Mayor Naglagence!!

[Real Cynic No More]

That was HIS plan to fill the Superdome, yet HE didn't stock it with food or water for four days.

Because he didn't want them so comfortable that they didn't want to leave!!

The $64,000,000 question is: Who is keeping the "slaves" on the plantation?

[television is just wrong]

"Nagin should be prosecuted as well. Those were HIS buses sitting there. That was HIS plan to fill the Superdome, yet HE didn't stock it with food or water for four days.
THESE are HIS people. HE should face the death penalty."

So should Blanco. The African Americans cannot depend on the dems to help them. They have let them down time and time again. It keeps them where the dems want them down trodden and unemployed.

[greasepaint]

Nagin could not let the evacuees be stranded
at the New Orleans city limits,
Blanko had to cooperate with any evac order,
which she apparently delayed in doing so.

[Overtaxed]

Those were HIS buses sitting there.

But he would need a place outside the city to bus them to. 'Course I'm assuming that The Plan would have provided for inland shelters to be set up (probably at public schools.)

[PISANO]

Those were HIS buses sitting there.

Want to hear JJ's EXCUSE for those buses not being used?

This morning the "Reverrrrend" said the Mayor did NOT have the RIGHT to bus the people OUT OF THE CITY. Then as an after thought he tagged his statement with "if they didn't want to go".

However it was George Bush's fault because he and the RED CROSS were NOT THERE ON TUESDAY!!!

Nothing he said made any sense and Neil Cavuto tried his best but without acting like a crazed Democrat there was no way he could get a coherent sentence from the "Reverrrrrend".

[jackbill]

I just heard an interesting comment from a friend, about the buses. He has heard that the buses are insured and the insurance will pay for flood damage - but NOT if they were flooded during use in an evacuation.

Anyone know anything about this?

[Tunehead54]

I agree Nagin should be prosecuted along with Blanco for their dereliction of duty - I think of him as Naggin' - because that's all he was doing - he did nothing himself.

IIRC he was called Saturday night at home by the director of the National Weather Service imploring him to order a mandatory evacuation - he could have gotten on every TV station and said "Pack up and leave NOW!" - people could have been leaving that night or early Sunday morning. Oh and all those buses that weren't good enough ... I think in retrospect, the nursing home patients and the "vehicle-free" would have preferred getting out - as opposed to what they went through. Drowning or days of misery. :-(

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[pointsal]

Don't they have a waste of public funds law in Louisana?

The mayor and governor squandered mega-resources, while trying to put on the DIMWIT face for the 6:00pm national news.