[Birdstrike]

Sound wisdom has two sides. Whenever the New Orleans Mayor speaks, you have to get the 'other side' if you want to determine the truth. Case in point - turns out that over 2000 school busses in New Orleans could have been used to evacuate citizens -but were not -because the Mayor vetoed the proposal in favor of obtaining more plush Greyhound busses. You can't make it up! What else is this guy hiding that's going to come out?

[Enterprise]

Someone needs to vote Nagin's ass out off office.

[burzum]

[epluribus_2]

Maybe it was more practical than that. His drivers had boogied out of town when he moved his feets to Baton Rouge ahead of the storm. I bet they would not let non-union drivers do it either. The plan was to use those busses but I bet noone told the drivers or put it in their contracts. Anyone with access to those sorts of labor agreements?

[Cicero]

The other day in an interview, Nagin excused the criminals who were robbing drugs from pharmacies, because he said it was understandable that they had to feed their habits. Then he added that he was not high on drugs himself.

I wonder. I suspect this guy has probably fried his brains, and that's one reason why he is so totally out of it. Great mayor!

[RexBeach]

I don't think Mayor Nagin could close an umbrella. mUch less open one. What a bonehead.

[Pessimist]

"turns out that over 2000 school busses in New Orleans.."

I can't believe that figure. Sure you don't mean 200?

[FormerACLUmember]

The most corrupt, incompetent, city-destroying Mayor in the USA (and that includes Detroit!)

[1Old Pro]

Sheesh, Nagin isn't competent to be dog catcher.

[msnimje]

He must have thought HE was going to have to ride on the buses.

[lady lawyer]

What makes him think he has a right to demand and commandeer the buses belonging to Greyhound. He not only thinks the federal government has to come in and do what the city was supposed to do for itself, he thinks he has a right to demand that private citizens do for New Orleaneans.

[uncitizen]

What else is this guy hiding that's going to come out?

There was his very strange comment during the interview wherein he proclaimed "i am not a drug addict". WTH did a mayor have to say that for...?

[GOPRaleigh]

WOW! Just wow.....

Ever notice how little we hear about the people in Mississippi? They got the worst of the storm....

The difference in leadership between La and Miss is startling! Disturbing even....

[martin_fierro]

[cwb]

"While Nagin was waiting for his Greyhound fleet, Katrina's floodwaters swamped his school buses, rendering them unusable."

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Yeah...and that's why a 20-year old was still able to steal a school bus on WEDNESDAY and drive 70 people out of New Orleans...two days before the Mayor's rant. Forget the 48 hours the Mayor wasted before the storm; he still had 24-hours after the storm hit and before the levees broke, and according to this story, anytime in between.

[Semper Paratus]

Send Greyhound!

And the leave the driving to them!

[hlmencken3]

Well, there is the explanation that the School Board, in negotiations over months or years, wouldn't agree to allow their buses to be used in an emergency.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1479615/posts?page=44#44

[snuffy smiff]

NO, and for that matter LA, got the government it deserved.

[Peach]

I just heard this one Rush. Nagin was quoted on a radio station as saying the school buses weren't enough - he wanted Greyhounds. But then did NOTHING to ensure that commercial drivers were available.

This is just unbelievable. The more that comes out, the more even the mainstream media starting to SLOWLY get it.

[Trust but Verify]

I have a different take on this interview. It seems to me he is not answering the the question why didn't he use school buses BEFORE the storm, but why wasn't he using them AFTER the storm. Here's the telling quote:

where he explained why he didn't use hundreds of city school buses to evacuate his city's flood victims

They weren't flood victims until after the storm.

[wolicy_ponk]