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WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?... New Orleans Lost Opportunity
Matt Drudge ^ | 8-2-05 | Drudge

Posted on 09/02/2005 12:29:42 PM PDT by joinedafterattack

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


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


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: buses; drudge; evacuation; hurricane; katrina; lakenagin; mayor; naggingnagin; nagin; neworleans; noballsnagin; pajamapatrol; wimp
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To: Hillarys nightmare
These filthy mouthed self serving democrats like Nagin only keep proving our point!

Exactly right.

361 posted on 09/02/2005 7:55:30 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: joinedafterattack
Who made this command decision?

Name, rank, serial number, please...

362 posted on 09/02/2005 8:00:58 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: GoBucks2002

Here is the difference in a nutshell:

Guilliani and Pataki telling the counrty after 9-11:

"we're gonna do A!

we're gonna do B!

we're gonna do C!"

Blanco, Landrieu, Nagin asking the country after Katrina"

where is A?

where is B?

where is C?


363 posted on 09/02/2005 8:07:22 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: RedMonqey

"After you listen to his rant on the local radio station, you will understand from what his mentality is and who elected him."

Exactly. Maybe this will make people stop and think before pulling a lever or punching a chad. Maybe they'll vote for the most capable candidate instead of the most PC, or the one that matches their color.


364 posted on 09/02/2005 8:10:18 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: WOSG
Superdome now


365 posted on 09/02/2005 8:12:53 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: joinedafterattack

bttt


366 posted on 09/02/2005 8:13:28 PM PDT by timestax
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To: finnman69

bttt


367 posted on 09/02/2005 8:21:17 PM PDT by timestax
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To: OXENinFLA

That picture and that quote get loose and the Honorable Mayor better just stay away from New Orleans. He'd be strung up by his own "brothers" faster than Jesse Jackson can race bait.


368 posted on 09/02/2005 8:33:25 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: joinedafterattack

IT WASN'T AN ELECTION!!!!!!!!!!!

BINGO.


369 posted on 09/02/2005 8:34:18 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Millee
I hope Bill O'Reilly picks up on this. He can be a bulldog when he wants to be.

And on occasion he has even been known to be a conservative for 5 minutes at a shot. Happened twice so far I think.
370 posted on 09/02/2005 8:40:11 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: Rosemont

She's heading down to New Orleans now to protest our military troops dealing with the armed extremists in the city and for trying to save lives when it just puts our soldiers lives at risk.


371 posted on 09/02/2005 8:44:22 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: finnman69

Is that a rail line I see to the south southeast ? ( Bottom right anyway )?????

How many can you move out in boxcars and flatbeds as the floodwaters start ?


372 posted on 09/02/2005 8:46:54 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: jaydubya
All major cities are supposed to have evacuation plans in case of a disaster such as this.

They had a plan and it has gone exactly as it stated :

1. Do nothing and wait for federal assistance.

2. Blame Bush.
373 posted on 09/02/2005 8:49:53 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: foobeca
A lot of those busses would prolly start up and run if they're only sitting in 3ft of water. The oil pan is prolly 2-3ft of the ground, so little of the engine would be submerged. There isn't much electronics with diesel engines. The only thing I'd be concerned about would be the starter

Good observation. I've been thinking the same thing. I doubt that the air intakes are under water. A starter will still crank an engine while underwater too. I have had had to start a few semi-suberged diesels in my time.

374 posted on 09/02/2005 9:34:55 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Diversity is divisive. E. Pluribus Unum)
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To: Reactionary
You are seeing the Liberal Democrats at their Very Best.

They never have any usable ideas on any issue, the only thing they can do is obstruct and blame.

Not one Democrat down there can make a decision?

It seems that almost everyone here thought of those buses, school buses, Greyhounds and any other sort of drivable equipment SHOULD have been used. But that would require thinking and it is impossible for a Democrat to do that.

375 posted on 09/02/2005 11:11:53 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: finnman69

Does anyone have satellite pics of the Bus parking lot?
I tried google earth but could not find it.


376 posted on 09/03/2005 12:12:52 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: lilylangtree
"The governing authorities in the city and the state had the revenue, the agencies, the transportation, etc."

At a bare minimum, isn't this gross negligence of stewardship over public property that the mayor and governor took an oath of office to uphold? Even if they didn't use the buses for evacuation, shouldn't they have been moved to above sea level at the very least? I just don't understand how Nagins and the governor could have been caught so flatfooted on this. In the past,every time that there was a storm in the gulf that remotely threatens NO, all we heard was the doomsday scenarios of flooding and such. Year after year. If they were in N.Dakota and got hit with a major hurricane, I would understand their surprise, but not in NO. I guess when you condition the majority of the city's population to look to the government for sustenance we shouldn't be surprised when they are unable to fend for themselves when it really mattered. I am surprised that someone who rose the the leadership position of a major US city apparently did so without any aptitude for leadership.

377 posted on 09/03/2005 5:20:16 AM PDT by chief_bigfoot ("isn't THAT amazing?" - Ron Popiel)
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To: finnman69

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378 posted on 09/03/2005 5:37:49 AM PDT by timestax
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To: joinedafterattack

He was waiting for the Ken Hamblin, The Black Avenger, to get there from Denver!

With instructions for "How to be Darktown's mayor now that one is actually needed - IE your looting, Mr mayor, is now officially over -- and that of them you-all's been shaftin's about to begin!

And with Certificates of Absolution for all of the relevant folks.


379 posted on 09/03/2005 5:41:55 AM PDT by Brian Allen (All that is required to ensure the triumph [of evil] is that Good Men do nothing -- Edmund Burke)
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To: knak

"there's about 150 [buses]in that picture I bet"

I counted 237. At 60 people each, that's 14,220 people that could have been evacuated.

If the mayor is not a drug addict now (as he states) he sure will be one before this is over.


380 posted on 09/03/2005 5:55:34 AM PDT by panaxanax
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