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."
This reads as if Democrats will participate in Senate hearings after all. Maybe they plan to begin by participating in the hearings, make their anti-Bush opening statements, then LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION, a grand en masse exit. I don't doubt this might happen. What better way to avoid the embarrassing testimony.
Wallace should have cut the interview off.
What makes you think VOTES put people in office in Lousyanna?
The press and the Democrats are going overboard trying to pin blame on elitist racism when it should really fall on idiot mayor Nagin who agonized over the "limits of his power" and potential lawsuits while the school buses flooded out - two years after dealing with a smaller hurricane. They're also trying to blame Bush for cuts to levee funding. Never mind that the levee projects were declared completed by Louisiana.
The bottom line is that when you have a population essentially car-less in a potential disaster zone you have a plan to get them out. Neither the mayor or the governor lived up to their responsibilities - they seem to believe the rescuing of their citizens a Federal responsibility (does this sound like the illegal immigration volleyball or what?).
Say... what? I used to have a messure of respect for Sen. Landrieu. She did some nice work on getting tax cuts for adoptive families and worked with the administration on several crucial bills. All of that respect just went right out the window. I personally know several of her former staffers and they have to be sitting in front of their TV's yelling "SHE SAID WHAT?"
It also appears that even CNN is beginning to come around and not offer "softball" interviews to Dem Talking Heads.
Which is a very, very good thing.
Late in the week, Nancy Pelosi was being politely, yet forthrightly nailed to the wall by one of the newer CNN News Babes regarding Kartina and the failings of local government.
Pelosi became so flustered, she accused CNN News Babe of being on the White House Payroll.
It's fun wathcing the Left devour itself while it disintigates.
Jack.
"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."
The White House threw very strong, very obvious signals that the state should allow the federal government to start things, but the governor still refused. If Landrieu was around, then she should be called as a witness to state when the govenor did when the White House requests came in.
Yes, the truth will come out in the hearings, and Landrieu et all are going to be left looking like a bunch of idiots.
Because it wasn't a sunny day.
Both. The left consists of vile, stupid, and completely inept slugs. John Edwards was right when he said that there are two Americas. The left has made it that way. They can leave anytime.
I think that Landrieu ties with Patty Murray, D-WA, for the dumb as a rock award.
Landrieu [D] 642,974 / 52%
Terrell [R] 603,160 / 48%
It wasn't Election Day?
She seems to be trying to pass the buck up to the fed, and down to the rank and file at the same time.
MSn.com has a good long article today. One new thing it reports, is that Amtrack offers to transport people by train were ignored and turned down.
That's what YOU think. There will be special legislation to allow displaced Lousyannaians to vote anyway and low and hehold it will be the largest turnout in Lousyanna's history.
I'd like to see how she proposes an evacuation for a tornado or an earthquake.
Husband says she's trying to unseat Barbara Boxer as dumbest stump in the Senate and perhaps is going for an all-time record better than Carol Moseley Braun (sp?)
BOTH.
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