Posted on 09/02/2005 3:11:05 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
They knew for decades, centuries even, this would happen. Look at the French Quarter. It was the last to get any water because they had the sense to build on higher ground.
Governor "Blinko" said today that Bush TOLD HER to order a mandatory evacution. Of course, you won't hear the MSM playing up that interesting tid bit.
It's definitely Bush's fault. Yeah, he gave tax breaks to the rich and cut the money to fix the levees. That's what the Left is spouting right now.
If leadership in this crisis were represented by a doughnut Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco would be the hole.
You forgot the segment of the population that translates "evacuate" as "sweet--we get to run wild while The Man is out of town."
I knew that the Libs would totally politicize this, but their unrelenting finger pointing is still stunning. Not one moment for constructive plans or ideas for helping the victims. It's just "attack, attack, attack, and we'll worry about all that other crap once we're in charge."
Since when is the gov't expected to provide bus service to the public, free of charge? Is there no such thing as personal responsibilty anymore. If the gov't said a tornado was coming, does the gov't now owe you a cellar to hide out in? If a wildfire is spreading, and the gov't warns you to leave; are you entitled to an asbestos suit?
When Katrina hit Florida, it was a category 1 Huricane. It grew from a Cat 1 to a Cat 5 within 48 hours; I submit that these people did not know what a Cat 5 was going to be like, and had expected to ride out a Category 1 storm. I also submit that a segment of the group PLANNED on looting, knowing that a large portion of the population and police had fled the storm.
This is a natural catestrophy, the scope of which has not been seen in nearly 100 years. FEMA, State and local services are frankly overwhelmed. Having some gangs decide to 'take over' the surviving wreckage is just an example of how poorly this has been handled. I would have done things differently. I would have started shooting looters on day ONE; instead of letting it escalate to this mess.
But, the ALCU (as usual) has no actionable plans that make fiscal sense; they merely want to place blame after the fact. If California has the 'Big One', they will sue the US Gov't for not having a large enough 'Earthquake Prevention Plan' in place to handle the tens of Millions that will be affected. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't want to pay taxes for 100,000 buses and the highways that will be required to evacuate Los Angeles should the "Big One" be just 48 hours away. You live; you take your chances just like everyone else.
Good grief, thank you for posting this. I had NO idea. No wonder people didn't want to stay in the Superdumb. If I lived in NO and couldn't get out (this time) I think me and my axe would've been better off at home. Mayor Nagin & Governor Blanco should be ASHAMED, and should face serious charges over this! INCREDIBLE!!!!
re: Col. Henry Whitehorn, head of state police . . . acknowledged he never expected a seven-hour-long crawl for the 60 miles between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
That's a strange quote to be coming from the head of the state police. He must not be very good at math if it never occurred to him that a million or so cars trying to use the same few lanes of the same few roads would clog up the system. If his level of perception is typical of the people who have been in charge of hurricane preparations then it's little wonder why there are so many problems.
Needs a new mayor? Who would want to run now? Mayor of what?
Mayor of Lillie-pond-farms.......
Says it all dude.
I read on a NO blog that the mayor hasn't yet even been to NO. I don't want to spread rumors, but here is the blog link, www.mgno.com
In the ACLU world:
The court system and the ACLU have just killed thousands of people in the NO area
Some of the posts on a few of the NO blogs sicken me. The depth of hatred for President Bush is tangible, and you're right. He is ABSOLUTELY to blame for every freakin' ill that happens, not only in the U.S. but on the entire planet.
There hatred is right out of classical literature. They are as mad as Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick. He chased the white whale until he destroyed himself, ship and crew. Bush is the lefts white whale.......
"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."
So inbound lanes were reversed on a Tuesday afternoon, and Ivan arrived hours after Wednesday afternoon, meaning the reversed lanes were open only a few hours more than 24 hours. Were the inbound lanes reversed earlier this year?
"Send this to Drudge - EVERYONE - to make sure he doesn't miss it"
This is like a smoking gun.
The pic says it all about this incompetent mayor.. but get this, I just saw this on another thread, can't verify if its true though. Maybe the original poster has more info.
"The "Mayor" is apparently now saying that he couldn't use the school buses because ....they couldn't take all those people to Texas in a bus without bathrooms!"
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