It looks like Blanco and whats his name mayor really failed to have a plan.
The moonbats don't care. They see this as an opportunity to bash Bush, facts won't get in their way.
Too bad they had no buses.
Posted on 08/28/2005 1:23:07 AM EDT by Anti-Bubba182
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on Saturday because of the approach of Hurricane Katrina and his spokesman urged residents along the coast to heed authorities' advice to evacuate.
Bush, vacationing at his ranch, was being regularly updated about the storm, which is expected to hit land early Monday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency continue to coordinate with state authorities in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, and have prepositioned supplies in areas expected to be affected, he said.
The president's emergency declaration authorizes the FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts and to provide appropriate assistance in a number of Louisiana parishes, or counties.
Authorities told residents of low-lying coastal communities to head for higher ground. The storm was expected to strengthen as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico and could become a Category 4 hurricane with wind of at least 131 mph.
"We urge residents in the areas that could be impacted to follow the recommendations of local authorities," McClellan said.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
Looks to me like President Bush, "personally" intervened to save lives.
And the media insists on publishing that garbage that Bush doesn't care about blacks. He probably saved more people, and more blacks, than anyone will ever know -- by his personal intervention to get people to evacuate on their own.
So basically we have a President who was willing to humble himself to a mayor to save 100,000 American lives. That shows seriously good character. But it must be infuriating for President Bush to listen the mayor now sounding self righteous.
We need to start a campaign to get the word out that the "President's PERSONAL intervention saved lives."
Publish it on every web site, in every newspaper, on every radio talk program. Saturate the communications with it.
BUMP!!!!!!!
As this report was filed at "8/28/2005, 10:48 a.m. CT", President Bush most certainly had called Blanco on Saturday, August 27th, the same day the President declared Louisiana a disaster area. Katrina did not hit New Orleans until early a.m. Monday morning.
The government at ALL levels FAILED.
Buses that Mayor Nagin never used to evacuate the people of New orleans who had no way out of the city prior to hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast.
I saw this last Sunday and have been noting it since then. And I can even tell you the reason why SHE did this. After last year's failed evacuation of New Orelans when Hurricane Ivan "didn't hit," the city planners took a lot of heat for inconveniencing people. She waited for someone else to take the responsibilty so she could blame them if Katrina didn't hit. She noted that Bush not only ordered the evacs, but he also declared a state of emergency before she did.
From the start this crisis has been handled, politically. She failed to use the national guard in its proper "law enforecment" role because she didn't want to be held responsible for Guardsmen shooting "poor, black people." How could she even order this when her own AG and Mayor were helping to justify this looting under a "need to survive."
I also heard that the NOAA guy asked the mayor to evacuate.
I have this image in my mind of a whole bunch of corrupt local fatcats sitting at their TVs on Sunday thinking, "holy shit, it's the Big One, we dodged it for years while telling all the poor bastards we were preparing for it, and they're all gonna die because we put all the money in our own pockets. I had best get the hell out of Dodge."
One of the small, but significant items in the news report was how early-on the mayor was already taking in special needs people at the Superdome, early Sunday - people with walkers and in wheelchairs and with portable respirators - instead of arranging for them to go to the Hospitals, or even transporting them out to Tulane, which at least would not be under water. Then, having already sent people with special needs to the Superdome, he opens it up to 10s of thousands of others, and tells them to bring their own food for up to 3 or 4 days.
So, two points:
Since he did not provide much staff assistance at the Superdome, what did he think was going to happen with all the special needs persons he first took in there, when it got jammed up with another 30,000 people - who did not bring food for 3 or 4 days.
He told people going to the Superdome to bring food for 3 or 4 days, so he knew he had no legitimate expectation of achieving their evacation from the Surperdome until possibly Thursday. Yet, he has given everyone in the world the public perception that he believed otherwise, and feels the feds let him down. The man was not qualified to be dog catcher.
I know no one in the LSM will look at this, so I hust wanted to point it out.