The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll [Steyn Alert]

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9/6/05 | Mark Steyn

[Moose4]

Here's a part of this I'm unsure about. We know that hundreds of buses, both city transit and Orleans Parish school buses, were left abandoned and unused in this mess. And those buses could have taken tens of thousands of people out of New Orleans and presumably to safety. But...had Hizzoner and the New Orleans and Louisiana state Homeland Security dweebs worked out anyplace to actually HOUSE the tens of thousands of elderly, poor, indigent, handicapped, or otherwise unable-to-get-out-on-their-own people? Did Ray Nagin or Governor Blanco have anyplace arranged to actually handle those people?

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[Clemenza]

Nagin's Navy!

[Allen H]

How does one go about filing criminal charges against a Mayor who fails to execute his sworn duty to serve and protect the City he is Mayor of, thereby exasperating an already horrendous and untennable situation, and who's total lack of action and gross incompetance results in the deaths of the children, elderly, sick, and other peoples who did die in the flooding, who clearly would have been the first logical choices could have been evacuated on those 255 busses? That HAS to violate SOME kind of law somewhere.

[jwalsh07]

He is a master and he's right on the merits. Lyndon Johnson sucks.

[GBA]

BenLurkin, that's a great picture! First time I've seen it. Thanks for posting it. Who needs the government when there are "can do" citizen heroes like Jabbor Gibson?! Jabbor, you da man!

[AmishDude]

George Will got one in the 70s.

[goldstategop]

The welfare culture prevents people from saving their own lives. Every one waits to be told what to do. In the end they die when their own efforts could saved them. That's why liberalism is a mental disorder par excellence.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[John Lenin]

I have a job for you in Fresno, it pays $10 an hour, all you have to is bend over and pick tomatoes in 103 degeree heat. When do you show up for work ?

[Yaelle]

I'd fetch Steyn's coffee. He is a prose poet.

Unlike 9/11, when the cult of victimhood was temporarily suspended in honour of the many real, actual victims under the rubble, in New Orleans everyone claimed the mantle of victim, from the incompetent mayor to the "oppressed" guys wading through the water with new DVD players under each arm.

Oh yes, yes, yes!

[faithincowboys]

I am starting to really not trust Newt. Newt, if he were a government, certainly did abandon both his wives.

[junta]

bump

[AnAmericanMother]

[mylife]

Wow! just Wow!

[Pokey78]

Thanks!

Steyn ping!

[Right Wing Professor]

I'm surprised. But those were less partisan days, and besides, old George is a lot more sedate than Steyn.

[AmishDude]

George had quite the poison pen in his youth. I'll look up some of the distinguished commentary Pulitzers.

[metmom]

There's always jury nullification.

[AmishDude]

Here are the commentary winners. Early on they tried to alternate. 50% liberal, 50% conservative or non-political. Will got it in '77, Krauthammer in '87, Rabinowitz in '01. The shame of that list are Dowd and Friedman. Such frauds.

[decimon]

There's always jury nullification.

That's one reason they'll likely be foolish to press any charge against Gibson.

[Ethrane]

Is there any way to be added to the Steyn 'Ping List'?
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