Posted on 09/07/2005 6:23:26 PM PDT by finnman69
The Fox News Channel's Major Garrett was just on my show extending the story he had just reported on Brit Hume's show: The Red Cross is confirming to Garrett that it had prepositioned water, food, blankets and hygiene products for delivery to the Superdome and the Convention Center in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, but were blocked from delivering those supplies by orders of the Louisiana state government, which did not want to attract people to the Superdome and/or Convention Center. Garrett has no paper trail yet, but will follow up on his verbal confirmation from sources at the highest levels of the Red Cross.
The transcript of the interview will be available at Radioblogger later this afternoon.
And here is a very interesting article from Septmber of 2004:
Debate continues over Superdome as potential hurricane shelter
Seems that the debate over using the Superdome goes back almost a year, and that no one in New Orleans thought it would be a great place in a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane.
Key graphs:
"If we were to lose power, if we were to lose plumbing facilities, if a storm were to hit and create flooding in the area; the Superdome would not be a desirable place to be," he said.
The American Red Cross admits it would not stay in town for a severe hurricane. Workers would offer supplies and training to the Dome but would then leave to ensure aid for the hurricane's aftermath.
Kay Wilkins, spokesperson for the American Red Cross, said, "While we're saying we;re going to move our volunteers and staff out of the risk area into areas where its safer for them to be it doesn't mean we're not going to be here ahead of time for others."
Mayor Nagin said the city has more than 80,000 people without transportation access, and when the next hurricane evacuation there will be thousands of people who will not, or cannot, leave, highlighting the city's urgency of finding the most suitable place for shelter.
And it shows just how feverishly CNN dealt with it.
We could end up seeing a Baby Doc style exit from power, complete with armored limos carrying the Governess and her family to a waiting airplane, and off to assylum.
I suspect that if congress organizes an inquiry, not even the likes of Teddy Kennedy and Chuckie Schumer can keep these awkward facts from being introduced.
Show of hands ...How many people STILL think there will be Senate hearings.
Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Howie Dean and all of the national 'Rats need to FRY for this.... but will they? Here they have been running a non-stop vicious smear campaign in the middle of this huge crisis, and the public will now learn (let's hope!) that the 'Rat Governor and the 'Rat Mayor could not tie their own shoelaces in the morning.... no wonder Hillarity is so desperate to try to make the 'investigation' limited to federal activities..... they are so desperate to keep all attention away from the state and city but the smear campaign should fall apart now. Still, never underestimate the ability of the MSM to change the subject, ignore and/or fabricate facts, etc.
This is huge! :)
Radioblogger is swamped....can't someone provide a better URL and give it to Drudge?
More confirmation that my current tagline is correct.
Hassert and Frist came out today and said there would be a combine joint House and Senate investigation
Whether there will be hearings or not .. I don't know
Rah- Roh....the truth, the truth...Oh No!
I bet the office of the governor is doing some big time spinning, or at least trying to.
Hey Lucy.....You got some splainin to do!
Yet again the 'Rats make their bed, and then refuse to lay in it.
Nevertheless they are going to pay a price for the finger pointing and blame shifting. Less of one, granted, as elections are more than a year away, but I can't believe Joe Average isn't seething (or being sickened) by their outrageous rhetoric. Most Americans -- who aren't political partisans -- expect public officials to cooperate, reach-out and work together at a time like this. The blame game can wait till people are safe and rebuilding is underway.
Bush is smart enough to understand this. Even when he has to roll over or work around incompetents and idiots like Blanco and Nagin to get the job done, and even when they prove to be backstabbing ingrates, Bush will still maintain every appearance of genial cooperation.
But Bush is just a dummy, right? That's what the 'Rats still appear to believe. Funny thing is the smarter the 'Rats get, and the dumber Bush gets, the more elected posts shift from the blue column to the red. Eventually the 'Rats will get so smart they'll cease to exist altogether.
Do you have the link to that specific story?
Nope. They can't afford it. It would be devistating for the Dems if they aired this out in Public...
"I guess it's the state's (Blanco's) decision to starve out the remaining people in NO."
Maybe she was getting her legal advise from Judge Greer?
LOL! Or maybe George Felos did soul-speak with her!
Access to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.
The STATE Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.
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