Back From Her Vanquished City, Lawmaker Takes Senate Floor to Denounce the President

New York Times ^ | 9/9/2005 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

[Mike Bates]

full of passion and rage at President Bush and what she called "the staggering incompetence of the national government."

Is this the same national government that she and the other 'Rats want to "take care of us" from cradle to grave?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[AliVeritas]

She surfaces.

[peyton randolph]

Why hasn't the Secret Service arrested this idiot for threatening to assault the President?

[Wolfstar]

Of course she won't place blame where it really belongs, which is on her own state and local governments. Her brother is Lt. Gov., and both of them have their own corruption and incompetence to hide.

[atomicpossum]

Ms. Landrieu, a Democrat who was nearly put out of office in 2002 after Mr. Bush campaigned intensely for her Republican opponent, had mostly held her fire against the president in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Like hell she did.

[coconutt2000]

The governor and mayor of New Orleans did not anticipate the breaching of the levees. If they had, they would've prepared for it.

Federal preparation was on par with the worst case scenario of a levee breach with assets pre-positioned. The lack of local preparation for the breach overwhelmed the Federal resources with their demands, and it took a little longer to get more assets moved into place to assist in the rescue and recovery to make up for the complete loss of local first responder cohesion.

[stockpirate]

Well if there are no people in her city to represent she shouldn't have a job!

[ChuckShick]

Ms. Landrieu, a Democrat who was nearly put out of office in 2002 after Mr. Bush campaigned intensely for her Republican opponent, had mostly held her fire against the president in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Held her fire? She threatened to punch Bush in the face. Who writes this crap.

[SoFloFreeper]

Mary Landrieu is more responsible for the levee break than Bush. She never sounded the alarm. She didn't bring legislation up that would keep the levees from breaking in a category 4 or 5 hurricane, did she? She let her constituents live in danger. She did nothing.

[Holicheese]

If Mr. Bill knew the levees would breach, why didn't she, her father or her brother ever do anything about it.
Her family has been in power a long time, why wait for 2000 to solve the problem?

[texas_mrs]

Exactly what Rush said yesterday.

[hope]

Scum does indeed float.

[Jim_Curtis]

The senator went on to describe how the creator of Mr. Bill, the clay figurine whose cry of "Ohh noooo!" was long a staple of "Saturday Night Live," had used the character in public service announcements to warn southern Louisianians of the dangers they would face in an extraordinary storm. "How can it be," she asked, "that Mr. Bill was better informed than Mr. Bush?"

Did they spend the money they were given to strengthen the levees on crude clay animations instead?

[claudiustg]

---"We know the president said, quote, 'I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees,' " Ms. Landrieu said. "Everybody anticipated the breach of the levee, Mr. President, including computer simulations in which this administration participated."---

Then why didn't the mayor and governor see to it that everyone was evacuated? And why was it that when we heard from Mary Landrieu befor the storm hit all she had to talk about was how much they needed more money when it was all over. She didn't talk about evacuation before the levee actually broke, not that I heard.

[Fester Chugabrew]

". . . the staggering incompetence of the national government."

Guess what, lady. That makes you part of the problem.

[AliVeritas]

"We know the president said, quote, 'I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees,' " Ms. Landrieu said. "Everybody anticipated the breach of the levee, Mr. President, including computer simulations in which this administration participated."

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So she didn't know? Also the organization they hired to examine their evac procedures told them their plan was substandard (a few months ago after an exercise). More reason for her and the locals to have the buses getting people out as soon as possible and at the Superdome. All the while she's taken the pork and not spent it on the levee.

[MNJohnnie]

Guess she missed the front page story in yesterday's Washington Post that specifically cites her as one of the Louisiana pols who diverted Army Corp of Engineer funds in pork barrel PR projects? Or maybe she DID see it and in the usual Democrat Party style, she is flaming out to hide her corrupt incompetence?

[jp3]

Mary cooked the books...on Rush yesterday. Read article, very enlightening...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702462.html

[AliVeritas]

Hey Wolf, Fox just said the president will be down at the disaster on Sept. 11th. Oh... my sweet moonbats will explode!

[Mike Bates]

Did they spend the money they were given to strengthen the levees on crude clay animations instead?

My guess would be they spent it on the next best thing: themselves.