Posted on 09/08/2005 8:46:29 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 11:38 a.m. EDT Ray Nagin: School Buses Not Good Enough
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin garnered a ton of publicity with a profanity-laced interview he gave to WWL radio last Thursday, where he blasted President Bush and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco for not coming to rescue his city in time.
However, Nagin's most newsworthy comments - where he explained why he didn't used hundreds of city school buses to evacuate his city's flood victims - went almost unnoticed.
Turns out, Nagin turned his nose up at the yellow buses, demanding more comfortable Greyhound coaches instead. "I need 500 buses, man," he told WWL. "One of the briefings we had they were talking about getting, you know, public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out of here."
Nagin described his response:
"I'm like - you've got to be kidding me. This is a natural disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."
While Nagin was waiting for his Greyhound fleet, Katrina's floodwaters swamped his school buses, rendering them unusable.
You are welcome.
Useless idiots all.
UN-frickin-BELIEVABLE. Intelligent life forms would have gotten people out of there on anything with wheels. I would have said "mobilize every vehicle in the city, no matter what kind, and take the maximimum number of passengers in each out of here NOW." As another poster said, I would have ridden out of there in the back of a dump truck, but the Mayor had to have comfy coaches for his people even if the logistics were IMPOSSIBLE at that point.
Idiot, incompetent sleazbag!
Recall how the *network* a.ka The Associated [quislings] Press worked when it was so eloquently exposed/demonstrated with the gang-bang of the Lib-Socialist idiot photog in NYCity?
Well?
"Turns out, Nagin turned his nose up at the yellow buses, demanding more comfortable Greyhound coaches instead."
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"'I need 500 buses, man,' he told WWL. 'One of the briefings we had they were talking about getting, you know, public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out of here.'"
How'd the AP *miss* this crucial *clue* while they covered "The Big Picture"?
Amazing. {scratching head}
"Nagin described his response: 'I'm like - you've got to be kidding me. This is a natural disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans.' While Nagin was waiting for his Greyhound fleet, Katrina's floodwaters swamped his school buses, rendering them unusable."
Well voila'!!
-Behold-
A Memory Hole in the making.
In the meantime Moveon.org accompanied by NO "refugees" will protest at the WH while enjoying excruciatingly full coverage from?
Yup, none other than.
...the The Associated Quislings. :o)
The thing that is sad and downright maddening, is that he will probably never have to answer for his failures. Neither will the governor. The MSM hatred for Bush will shelter these two losers from any blame, as they have been thus far. They will never be held accountable for the deaths they caused because of their incompetence.
They are both disgusting human beings.
Add public transit buses to that shopping list as well. If he didn't want to save the people, he could at least saved the buses. even people sitting on a dry freeway in buses would have been better than sleeping outdoors on them. He SHOULD be fired immediately, and put on trial. But what's he doing? Giving Oprah tours of the dome, blaming Bush for what HE HIMSELF CAUSED!
One? He's probably arragning to get dozens of them in the names of deceased constituents.
That doesn't wash for anyone who has seen them all in all of their glory, under water in parking lots. How stupid do they think the rest of us are?
I'm like, "You got to be kidding me. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."
That's -- they're thinking small, man. And this is a major, major, major deal. And I can't emphasize it enough, man. This is crazy.
Louisiana disaster plan, pg 13, para 5 , dated 01/00
'The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating'...
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
small thinking man! small thinking man!
And second, if that hole is filling up with water, use whatever ladder you have to get out. Don't wait for a better, more comfortable one.
Why should he? Either way, they'll keep voting for him.
Apparently, then, it wasn't in their plan, although, other posters, have said it was.
Obviously this clown doesn't know how stupid he is and that every time he opens that trash talkin' mouth he removes all doubt for those who have a hard time believing it.
The greenest butterbar (2nd LT) fresh from his/her commissioning ceremony has more guts and leadership ability than this REMF (that's Rear Echelon MF for you civilian types).
And he "supposedly" has an MBA? Proof that an education still can't make you learn common sense.
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