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LA Sen. Landrieu: Sunken buses are because administration doesn't believe in mass transit [huh?]
Fox News Sunday | September 11, 2005 | John Jorsett (me)

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."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 109th; blamegame; buses; katrina; landrieu
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

oh yeah, oprah and crissy will "woe is me" her. Same old dsame old. It's predictable. Does the woman ever smile? She's in the right party isn't she? Always doom and gloom, doom and gloom.


281 posted on 09/11/2005 5:54:35 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for our country than anyone can ever imagine. He is solid as a rock)
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To: Numbers Guy

yes, she is stupid, dishonest, partisan. but to be honest, its working for her. so long as there is no rebuttal to these rantings from the administration, she and the other Dems can continue to form their own reality about it and the MSM will push it.


282 posted on 09/11/2005 6:04:31 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: John Jorsett

Wow, I wonder if her constituents really believe this stuff??? I certainly hope their is a close oversight committee when the feds start handing out big money to rebuild that shi*hole she runs.


283 posted on 09/11/2005 6:10:18 PM PDT by hope (I fight poverty daily...I work!)
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To: John Jorsett
Hey Louisiana.........You should be well and truly embarrassed that this brainless b*tch is actually your Senator.

Good God in Heaven..........

284 posted on 09/11/2005 6:14:29 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: John Jorsett

Thanks forthe transcript.

I'll bet Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, et al, are going to have Roast Landrieu for lunch tomorrow. This is Hugh.


285 posted on 09/11/2005 6:19:12 PM PDT by SerpentDove ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 29:18)
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To: ExcursionGuy84

Your analogy is quite apt (coming from a former flyer).

Allow me to add.......she never would have been accepted to 'flight training' in the first place if this was a truly fair world. The woman's a blithering idiot.


286 posted on 09/11/2005 6:19:12 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: John Jorsett

And the Winner of the most HILARIOUS line of the day...

MARY LANDRIEU!!!

"This administration doesn't believe in mass transportation."


287 posted on 09/11/2005 6:24:09 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Sen. Landrieu on the flooded buses: "This administration doesn't believe in mass transportation.")
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To: John Jorsett
Lord help us! If this partisan witch will use lost lives to support her political hacks, this country is in very bad shape! I can't see how her constituents would ever re-elect her as their senator?

What we need is more of the media to ask these serious questions as to what went wrong, and not take the DNC point of view!

288 posted on 09/11/2005 6:25:12 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: John Jorsett

New Orleans believes in Mass Transit.
Tourist need to get around the city.

http://www.atneworleans.com/body/transportation.htm


289 posted on 09/11/2005 6:52:39 PM PDT by Milligan (Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!)
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To: John Jorsett

She looks just like Mr. Bill, right before he gets flattened by something. "OH NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

290 posted on 09/11/2005 6:56:49 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Sen. Landrieu on the flooded buses: "This administration doesn't believe in mass transportation.")
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To: eeriegeno
I agree with you . I'm going to write some e-mails to CNN AND MSNBC. I don't know if it'll do any good. But it'll be something like....Dear CNN, Do you ever wonder why Fox gets all the ratings. They are asking hard questions about the Governor and the Mayor of N.O.. You guys have dumped this whole thing in the Presidents lap. Why did Fox scoop your network with the stunning information that when offered a caravan of food , water, baby formula, and diapers from the Red Cross and Salvation Army the, Governor turned then down flat. Saying she didn't want to make these people too comfortable. She wanted them to leave the Superdome. ASAP! Maybe if your network started asking some hard questions like this your ratings would go higher. ......Or something like that.And a similar one to MSNBC.Don't know if it'll do any good , but no harm in trying!
291 posted on 09/11/2005 7:06:25 PM PDT by Bush gal in LA
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To: Bush gal in LA

I send them emails frequently; it never hurts for them to get more emails complaining about their biased coverage and ommission of critical information. The more they know you know, the better change there is that they will actually report it. Maybe!!! :-)


292 posted on 09/11/2005 7:10:05 PM PDT by Laverne
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To: John Jorsett

For that exchange, she should have been sitting across the table from Brit or O' Reilly.


293 posted on 09/11/2005 7:22:45 PM PDT by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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To: dufekin

That's funny. Thanks.


294 posted on 09/11/2005 7:52:21 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Tribune7
BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!! REPUBLICANS ARE WHY DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED CITIES CAN'T HIRE RELIABLE WORKERS!!!!

Sadly, it wouldn't surprised me if scary Mary actually said that ;-P

295 posted on 09/11/2005 7:54:55 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: cubreporter
She won't get voted in again and neither will Nagin or Blanco nor should any of them be put into a position of authority over a state or city again. No way.

She won't get voted back in, nor will Nagin, nor will Blanco because their voting base is in HOUSTON, SAN ANTONIO etc......

They are hyperventilating as we speak because they know that the people that were able to get to higher ground are not their voting base........yahooo Louisiana to be a REPUBLICAN STATE sooonnnnnnnnn.....

296 posted on 09/11/2005 8:04:05 PM PDT by GUIDO
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To: ken5050
Where is Mary in the elected chain of authority here?

Where is Mary in the food chain at this point? I hope Bill is out of town, because I'll bet the lamps are a flyin' over Chateau Clinton, bwahahahaha!!!

297 posted on 09/11/2005 8:12:34 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: TheSpottedOwl

I guess nobody whants to address my comments. Am I wrong?


298 posted on 09/11/2005 8:16:09 PM PDT by In God I trust
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To: John Jorsett
Watch the video here.
299 posted on 09/11/2005 8:28:34 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: BIGLOOK

Hahaha, good one! How about dumber than a sack of dead kittens?


300 posted on 09/11/2005 8:34:31 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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