This is what it is all about
Ray, if you can read, buy this book. You get what you plan for. You planned for S**t, and now you have it.
Posted on 09/02/2005 6:53:26 AM PDT by Jarhead1957
New Orleans Mayor Fumes Over Slow Reponse
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, left, Councilman Oliver Thomas and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco speak during a news conference about Hurricane Katrina, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005. Residents of low-lying coastal communities were told Saturday to pack up and head for higher ground before Hurricane Katrina strengthens and takes a ``possible direct hit'' on southeast Louisiana. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)
A day before President Bush headed to the hurricane-ravaged South, Mayor Ray Nagin lashed out at federal officials, telling a local radio station "they don't have a clue what's going on down here."
Federal officials expressed sympathy but quickly defended themselves, saying they, too, were overwhelmed by the catastrophe that hit the Gulf Coast region on Monday.
Nagin's interview Thursday night on WWL radio came as President Bush planned to visit Gulf Coast communities battered by Hurricane Katrina, a visit aimed at alleviating criticism that he engineered a too-little, too-late response.
Bush viewed the damage while flying over the region Wednesday en route to Washington after cutting short his Texas vacation by two days.
"They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed," Nagin said.
Nagin said he told Bush in a recent conversation that "we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do it justice ... I have been all around this city and that I am very frustrated because we are not able to marshal resources and we are outmanned in just about every respect."
In an interview Friday on NBC's "Today," Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown stood behind the massive federal relief effort that's under way.
"I understand the mayor's frustration. ... We have been having a continuous flow of commodities into the Superdome, there were five trucks arriving last night to feed well over 50,000 people.
"We're also diverting supplies to the convention center which I learned about yesterday and that area. ... This is an absolutely catastrophic disaster," he said.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who like Nagin is a Democrat, was less confrontational than the mayor.
"When the system goes down, this is pretty much what you get," she said on CBS' "The Early Show." "We don't get into the blame game. We just work with what we got."
This is what it is all about
Ray, if you can read, buy this book. You get what you plan for. You planned for S**t, and now you have it.
That, and Karzai is a much snappier dresser. :D
Mr. Mayor also fails to mention that he was supposed to order the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans a full 72 hrs. before the hurricane hit. NOT 24 hrs. He himself cost countless lives by adopting a wait and see attitude in the days before being hit.
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/specialreports/hurricanes/vulnerablecities/neworleans.html
Half of the 1 million people who live in the metro area evacuated as Georges drove toward the city, resulting in gridlock on the roads. Since Georges, city officials designed a plan that would provide a more orderly evacuation. It is to begin 72 hours before a storm hits, and end when the winds become too dangerous for motorists, according to Hijuelos.
The challenge will be convincing people to leave some three days before a hurricane makes landfall.
Yes, Mr. Mayor? 'Zackly who is "we"? You're supposed to be the guy in charge - you live there.
The MSM, race pimps, and liberals never fail to point out that the overwhelming color of the victims are Black. Yet, these same cretins are strangely silent as to the overwhelming White color of those doing all that is humanly possible to rescue those Black victims.
Anybody got his email? Send this picture to him, with an exact quote of your response, that'll cheer him up. And CC: the email to every new station you can think of.
Congressional Black Caucus on now, piling on as usual.
"You planned for S**t, and now you have it."
LOL! It is a bitter humor, but SO spot on!
"The challenge will be convincing people to leave some three days before a hurricane makes landfall."
And the SOB didn't even try. F*ck him.
May not be, but N.O. is reacting more like Somalia than a US city IMO. Where else have the rescue operations in helicopters been met with gunfire in US? Where else has FEMA conducted operations while children are being raped in the streets? (That's according to a Fox reporter this morning.)
A few days ago, I came up with the name "Mogadishu on the Mississippi."
Why didn't he do that? They have known for 40 years that something like this could happen. Why weren't plans made by the mayor, and the governor for dealing with a disaster? Why did they wait til Saturday to call for evacuations? Why didn't the governor have the national guard and state police on stand-by? (I've read that there weren't enough police in NO long before Katrina struck).
All these questions, and many more could be asked, but now is not the time. The mayor seems to have regressed to a 10 year old child having a temper tantrum, and blaming everyone else for his mistakes.
Too bad, the people of NO need leadership- they are not going to get it from their elected officials.
By the way all you, screaming about how much help they are not getting- It took 3 days to deploy the national guard during the Los Angeles riots- that was with everything working- the roads were clear, the had electricity, phone service, everything- the area was no where near the 90,000 square miles of damaged area from Katrina- it still took 3 days to get the guard to the riots.
As I said, I really playing the blame game, but those Rats forced my hand. They are only interested in taking down the GOP, and I won't stand for it.
Excellent! Maybe whatever they replace N.O. with when it's rebuilt will be called that.
The host who replaced Art Bell on Coast to Coast is a rabid Leftist kook. Bell was never all that great, in my opinion, but at least he was politically neutral most of the time. The dude who replaced Bell is a menace in what he spews out. No far Left conspiracy theory is too extreme -- he gleefully puts it all on the air.
I don't understand this at all. Not at all. Florida commandeers school buses to evacuate the elderly, so why were all those elderly left in New Orleans?
If the LA-SPCA had the forsight to evacuate all their animals to Houston-SPCA on Saturday, I'm at a complete loss to understand why NO didn't undertake a massive evacuation of its elderly.
No sources. I just remember because I was watching FOX in the morning and I remember Steve saying something to that effect - the organizations trying to provide relief were none to happy about the commotion he was causing. And, of course, the left started chiming in on that chorus. I remember thinking how ridiculous that was.
You need to learn the real story. Lawton Chiles, on advice from the DNC, initially refused the aid that Bush I offered. Then when the hurricane hit, they all sang that Bush I was "too slow." Bastards...
I was watching 'Today' this morning and it was mentioned that Nagin was in Baton Rouge. He isn't even in his own city in it's time of need. Granted, he probably couldn't (or wouldn't) do much of real work if he were there, but just providing presence and a sense of civil authority being around and aware of people's situations, would be a heck of a lot better than jawboning the pols in Baton Rouge.
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