(It took you long enough, Drudge!)
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.
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.