Katrina: ABC Notices The New Orleans Emergency Plan

Captain's Quarters ^ | 9/7/05 | Ed Morrisey

[frankjr]

Hey Hillary, bring on the Commission!!!

[RetiredArmy]

Get on da school bus. Oh, wait, they were in the bus barn parking lot.

[Cboldt]

When Hurricane Katrina hit, however, that plan was not followed completely.

I'm shocked. Probably some minor detail not followed. Nothing to see here. Move along. There is plenty of blame to go around.

[EagleUSA]

ABC News yesterday asked why Mayor Ray Nagin not only did not follow the plan, but actively sent non-evacuees to a site that had no preparations to handle them....
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It continues to be verified that this mayor is not only incompetent, but failed the HIS OWN PEOPLE! How Clintonesque! Liberals always shaft their "useful idiot" constiuents and they just keep coming back for more...

[Ex-Democrat Dean]

I wonder about all those media-types or elected officials who go on and on about the gov't response (other than their own, of course!) after Katrina.

The responses in the quantity and quality needed was not appreciated at first. I know that there had been warnings of flooding after a hurricane, but I think that this time, the damage was several orders of magnitude worse than anybody envisioned.

What were the historical precedents that were available? Galveston? Johnston flood? How many people had been in those disasters? A few thousands? And after Katrina - a few hundred thousands? A million?

Those who are complaining about gov't officials should ask themselves the questions without playing Monday morning quarterback! Although I don't particularly like government at all, I think that the officials recovered quite nicely and reached full speed quickly.

[mewzilla]

Kudos to ABC for asking the right questions.

Snort. Jeez, the info was always available. All anyone had to do was look. And people were, and noticed the MSM wasn't.

[Cboldt]

Other nonevacuees with means relied on a cultural tradition of not leaving or were discouraged by negative experiences with past evacuations.

"Negative experiences" is code for rampant looting.

[aft_lizard]

ooks like the centrifuge of truth is starting to spin up, soon everything will be seperated.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yeah...NBC Nightly finally woke up to the Evac Plan and ran a single still photo of the flooded buses. Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.

[steveegg]

Hey Hillary, bring on the Commission!!!

Hitlery will make sure that Blanco and Witt are on it, and absolve the state of ALL blame.

[HangnJudge]

Posted earlier today from BlindManPhoto.com collection

[mewzilla]

Too late. The Old Media is dead. Long live the New Media.

[TexasCajun]

...bring on the commission!

Let's just hope our spineless representatives don't allow Nagin & Blanco to sit on the investigative commission, al a Jamie Gorlick.

[Spktyr]

You weren't watching the two-to-three-hour pressers given by the Governette during the crisis or listening to the scanners.

The LA state government failed utterly, totally, miserably. The NO city government did the same.

Blanco had to be *reminded* to call in the military (National Guard) during a press interview. Later, she couldn't remember what day it was. When asked about the contaminated water in NO, she stated, "It's just rain water, it's safe to drink".

[frankjr]

" Hitlery will make sure that Blanco and Witt are on it, and absolve the state of ALL blame."

Good point. But that is why I think Bush came out early and said he would start his own investigation. They will probably all be combined, but Bush/Rove will make sure that the panel members selected are reasonable. If not, I hope Bush does proceed with his own investigation. Sure, libs will say and Bush's investigation is not valid, but at least questions will be raised that must be answered.

[WHBates]

"ABC also asked Governor Kathleen Blanco's office about their response to the evacuation. They responded that they never asked for evacuation assistance from the federal government as part of their interaction with FEMA, only for assistance with shelter and provisions. They assumed that the city of New Orleans had followed its own evacuation plan.

These people are starting to point fingers at each other. It going to be an amazing thing to witness. If it wasn't such a sad situation it might even be fun to watch.

I don't think that the President is going to fall for this independent commission crap. He will chair an investigation that relies on the department IG's and GAO as well as the DOD investigators. He'll let congress do what they want to do.

[TomGuy]

As more evidence and information comes to light, the hammer falls on incompetence and ineptitude, not of the FEDs as much as state and local officials.

Now comes the quandary:

Who becomes the sacrificial goat?

Blanco for her seeming lack of comprehension that a catastrophe has occurred?

or Nagin for his ineptness in evacuating people or adequately supplying the evacuation centers with food, drinking water, and security?

[Miss Behave]

"Hey Hillary, bring on the Commission!!!"

I was thinking the same thing when I saw Wolfstar's awesome pictorial/informational thread.

Bring it ON, Cankles!

[madison46]

ping

[tutstar]

Nbc , now abc, only one MSM left