[Congressman Billybob]

I am mad. I intend to take no prisoners, least of all Mayor Nagin. I think you will agree.

John / Billybob

[thecabal]

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said in an obscenity-laced tirade on WWL radio last Thursday that the federal government should have sent “Greyhound buses” to evacuate his city. He said school buses were inadequate because they lack bathrooms.

No joke? By all means, I agree! It's much better to let people die rather than suffer the indignity of having to squat in a bush on the side of the road.

[Brilliant]

Did the Emergency Plan call for the federal government providing Greyhound Buses?

[freebilly]

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said in an obscenity-laced tirade on WWL radio last Thursday that the federal government should have sent “Greyhound buses” to evacuate his city

This just gets better and better.

At least he didn't say the feds should have sent 747's....

[ncountylee]

Yep..I'de rather be dead than ride in a bus with no bathroom. Hell, slave ships didn't have bathrooms.

[SerpentDove]

Click Here For A Message From Mayor Nagin

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>He said school buses were inadequate because they lack bathrooms.


I'd of stayed there and taken the brunt of a hurricane over that, sure. It reminds me of the people at The Superdome who refused the MREs because they weren't fine cuisine.

[frogjerk]

[eureka!]

Same too for the governor IMHO. I would think there were some mandatory statutory duties breached by their acts and omissions (including the "starve 'em out of the dome" policy). I share your anger, along with feelings of disgust, horror and lack of understanding how they could do, and not do, what they did....

[mewzilla]

I'd add Blanco and the lt. gov while we're at it.

[hflynn]

He said school buses were inadequate because they lack bathrooms.

This is amazing the buses didn't have bathrooms so the Mayor decides it's better for these people to wade through water up to the neck full of somebody else's waste. There must be an element of payback in the Mayor's thinking. I think he probably is saying to NO citizens. Okay folks, whose full of $hit now.

[SF Republican]

Mayor who can walk and chew gum - that is a rather large assumption for this Mayor.

[msnimje]

JohnBoy BillyBob :-) He said school buses were inadequate because they lack bathrooms.

Does that mean by the time the SuperTomb was without bathrooms it too was inadequate?
Why is it OK for him to send them to a shelter for 5 days without bathrooms but a three hour bus ride without bathrooms is unacceptable?

There is something about "liberal Logic" I can not wrap my brain around.

[lilylangtree]

Nagin oughta know. He and Blanco ordered the massacre.

[MplsSteve]

En fuego, BillyBob!

A very well-written post.

[WhiteGuy]

Yes,

our elected SHOULD be held personally responsible.

I think they should be personally liable for wasteful spending too.

[N3WBI3]

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said in an obscenity-laced tirade on WWL radio last Thursday that the federal government should have sent “Greyhound buses” to evacuate his city. He said school buses were inadequate because they lack bathrooms.

Im sure the little girl who was raped and killed at the convention center could have delt without a bathroom for the few hour drive to BRLA

[nutmeg]

bttt

[cgk]

BFLR!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Besides the criminal charges you suggest, I would suspect there would be a "class action" civil suit against the mayor and governor for the same charges of gross negligence causing death for 1,000's. Get a jury of their peers who went thru this and it will detroy mayor Nagin and governor Blanco.

[RichInOC]

The Louisiana criminal code, courtesy of the good people in Baton Rouge:

http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp?folder=146