WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?... New Orleans Lost Opportunity

Matt Drudge ^ | 8-2-05 | Drudge

[joinedafterattack]

WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?... New Orleans Lost Opportunity

WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?...

[dynoman]

One word, indecision.

Someone in government who can actually make a decision is a rare breed these days

My supervisor came up with this as the operating motto of indecisive "leaders";

Indecision = Flexibility

[DakotaRed]

Don't you realize, Bush didn't issue orders to use local resources first. (insert favorite sarcasm emoticon)

[Reactionary]

Well, gee. I guess the idea of using buses didn't occur to the brainy liberals in New Orleans.

And neither did the idea of having an off-site staging area with boats, helicopters and supplies. No. Liberals are obviously such wonderful beings that basic civic responsibility is something they never think about. They do, however, love the perks of high office. And they certainly love to mewl and piss about how everyone else has let them down.

[lilylangtree]

That's what I keep thinking. If the state and city officials had got off their a**es and provided the means, NO people wouldn't have been in such bad shape. The governing authorities in the city and the state had the revenue, the agencies, the transportation, etc.

[frogjerk]

All they needed was a couple of guys like that 20 year old in another article. He the bull by the horns and drove one of those school buses out of NO picking up people along the way. Hell, they all chipped in money for gas and diapers.

[carl in alaska]

He was too stupid and uninformed to comprehend the extent of the flooding in NO from a Cat 4 hurricane? Just my guess...

[sandbar]

That stupid SOB is blasting the Federal Government but an article said the National Guard just got there too. Why don't blast that weeny lady Governor Mayor? She is in control of the National Guard.

All lines of government are at fault here I feel, but the city and state are the first line and all they did was sit back and whine for someone to do their damn job for them.

[RoseofTexas]

OMG!!! I got chills just looking at those buses sitting there...PLEASE LORD I IMPLORE YOU, UNMASK THOSE EVIL LYING HATEFUL RAT OFFICIALS! Let the truth be told!!

[finnman69]

Rename New Orleans 'Lake Nagin'

[NormsRevenge]

Looks like the Police in
NO are shooting
'BlanK-os'

[evets]

"Get off your asses..."

(It took you long enough, Drudge!)

[doug from upland]

1st Quarter 2005, we had more unique views than Drudge.

THANK YOU, MATT, FOR PAYING ATTENTION TO FREE REPUBLIC!

[OXENinFLA]

DIND'T YOU PEOPLE HEAR WHAT THE MAYOR SAID!!!!

You can't just be evacuating people from a disaster zone in school buses!!

YOU MUST USE GRAYHOUND!

WWL: What do you need right now to get control of this situation?

NAGIN: I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man. We ain't talking about -- you know, one of the briefings we had, they were talking about getting public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out here.

I'm like, "You got to be kidding me. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."

[Rosemont]

"Jack Cafferty, a drunken commentator on CNN, just stated, "the war in Iraq is hampering the relief efforts in New Orleans"..... "


Does anyone ever challenge Cafferty at the Castro News Network? Or does Wolfie just let him spew and not even pretend that CNN is balanced.

[finnman69]

ALL of those buses could have beein prepositioned on the elevated parking agarages at the Superdome, ready to go, far better protected than where they drowned.

[Millee]

Say what you will about him, but I hope Bill O'Reilly picks up on this. He can be a bulldog when he wants to be.

[sydbas]

Jack Cafferty, a drunken commentator on CNN, just stated, "the war in Iraq is hampering the relief efforts in New Orleans".....he then asked, "is their any coincidence the same day the photo-ops are available for the President in the ravaged area is the same day the relief convoy arrives???"

I know it's been said over and over but this is exactly why people don't watch CNN. To Cafferty's credit at least he is not even trying to hide his bias instead he is wearing right on his sleeve.

[Dansong]

Am I right in saying it was the Freepers who brought the bus picture to the forefront?

[Naspino]

They are liberals; of course they waited for someone to do their job for them. Liberals enjoy the free-ride and complain when its bumpy.

[RoseofTexas]

Ohhhhh and as for Shep Smith the DRAMA QUEEN, can someone email this pic to him so that he can STFU!! Getting real tired of his gloom and doom crap...he's at it again today. I couldn't stomach him any longer so I turned off the tv!