Posted on 09/11/2005 9:57:10 AM PDT by John Jorsett
I was just watching Fox News Sunday interview Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and I couldn't believe what she was saying. Here's my transcript of part of it. Sorry if I've mangled any of the proper names; I'm not going to go to the trouble of looking them up:
Chris Wallace: "Was it incompetent and insulting for Mayor Ray nagin to order a mandatory evacuation, but then to leave buses -- and we have a picture of them -- hundreds of buses idle so that they could be flooded instead of using them to get people out?"
Senator Landrieu: "Well, Chris, I was there as you know through the whole ordeal with state and local officials, and was right there with Louisiana Democrats and Republicans, city council members, police chiefs, mayors, and governors. And could watch what Hayley Barbour was doing and Governor Reilly in Alabama. I am not going to level criticism at the local level. These people did ..."
Wallace: "But I'd like to answer if you could this one significant question ..."
Landrieu: "I will answer it. I'm not going to level criticism at local and state officials. Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, less [sic] alone getting them out of the city in front of a hurricane. It's because this administration and administrations before them do not understand the difficulties that mayors, whether they're in Orlando, Miami, or New Orleans face. In other words, ..."
Wallace: "But but wait. Senator. Senator ..."
Landrieu: "... this administration does not believe in mass transit. They won't even get people to work on a sunny day less [sic] alone getting them out ..."
Wallace: "But Senator. Senator, there were hundreds of buses sitting in that parking lot ..."
Landrieu: "... less [sic] alone getting them out ... I'll tell you why ..."
Wallace: " ... can I just ask the question?"
Landrieu: "You can, but let me finish ...
Wallace" "Well ... well ... well there were hundreds of buses ... if I might ... here, we're looking at a picture ... there were hundreds of buses in parking lots. THe city ... It wasn't underwater before the evacuation."
Landrieu: "Those buses were underwater ..."
Walace: "They weren't underwater on Sunday ..."
Landrieu: "We had two catastrophes. We had a hurricane and then we had a levee break. When the levee broke, not only did New Orleans go underwater, but Saint Bernard went underwater, and Saint Tammany parish went underwater ..."
Wallace: "But they weren't underwater on Sunday ..."
Landrieu: "... and Plackman went underwater. And because the mayor evacuated the city, we had the best evacuation between Hayley Barbour and Kathleen Blanco of any evacuation I've sen. I'm 50 years old, I've never seen one any better."
Walace: "But there were 100,000 people left in the city."
Landrieu: "They did 100,000 people left in the city because this federal government won't support cities to evacuate people, whether it's from earthquakes, tornados, or hurricanes. That's the truth, and that will come out in the hearings."
I'll take C, Both of the above.
Oh my someone finally called a Louisiana official on the busses. To bad it was only FOX.
Senator Landrieu and Governor Blanco certainly didn't do women in positions of power proud. While it doesn't say anything about women in positions of power on balance, it speaks volumes for them personally.
You're right on BOTH counts.
"Question is will the people of New Orleans "wake-up and smell the coffee?""
Answer: NO
If we cannot come together even while fellow Americans are dying before our very eyes, on our own soil . We can forget ever reaching agreement for consensus on other vital matters. The dismal lack of a unified response to Katrina has proven the divide between us too wide and deep.
Though consumed with their hatred, I would never have thought to further a political driven agenda, the left and media would have sacrificed human lives. I was wrong, there is no other conclusion for me to draw from their horrific actions during a time of monumental crisis. This is no longer just political warfare, as a direct result of the left's partisanship, people have suffered and died. I now find this to be a very real and actual war, when besieged, it would behoove one come to grip with reality and act accordingly.
I read her pappy was a long time mayor of NO, the corruption of her family is endemic in LA.
Dear Numbers Guy,
I was acquainted from college with her brother, the current Lt. Gov.
The stupidity is genetic.
sitetest
Sounds as though cities need new mayors or new workers or both.
Well they are all wrong... There were three disasters..The first was electing Democrats to local and state government for last 1 1/2 Centuries.
I wish I'd seen that interview!
Where is the Lt Gov?
Bravo Sierra?
It wasn't Election Day?
It's bumper sticker time. T-shirt time. Poster time. ANYTHING to...pardon the pun...DRIVE this point home. In fact, do not pardon the pun. I meant to say it, the way I said it. If anyone is offended, you're offended by the truth. /end rant to lurking trolls
As a MSM headline it should read;
LANDREIU... N.O. CITY WORKERS UNRELIABLE INCOMPETENT
Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, less [sic] alone getting them out of the city in front of a hurricane. "
Good grief! She's casting aspersions on the work ethic of those poor people (LOL) I know they don't work in Chicago...
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