...whenever a dum-o-crat speaks.....
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."
The ones that didn't go to Houston have been scattered to the four winds. Houston's Mayor Bill White -- who has his eyes on statewide office -- is not going to pass up the opportunity to have a landslide re-election victory this Nov. 8.
The folks in LA sure got their money's worth hiring this genius as one of their senators.
We have to evacuate cities because of tornadoes?
She's stuck on stupid.
Both of the above. Demokkkrats are desperate to spin this into a Bush mistake because if blacks across the country realize what really happenend, that DEMOKKKRATS left them to drown instead of activating their evacuation plan, the demokkkrat party will be out of business. Fact is, demokkkrats dont leave them behind on election day, the buses run when the demokkkrats need these folks to vote for them. On that day, however, the tables were turned, the poor folks needed help from the demokkkrats, the demokkkrats left them to drown. Too bad for the poor folks of nawlins it wasnt election day.
...whenever a dum-o-crat speaks.....
I live in the most dangerous earthquake zone in the US and it's only a matter of time until destruction happens. I need to be evacuated now. Where is my check (or debit card).
If the GOP had any stones they would use this priceless footage (and others like it) in campaign ads.
Lousyanna is a universal joke in Texas. They been evacuating to here for decades. Most Texans older than 20 and with an IQ over 80 avoid the place.
Except for their coastal fishing. Best on the Gulf.
Was it sunny on election day?
Come election time, she'll take the credit for all the federal money that is being poured into LA.
I'll take Clear Lake/Johnson Center over NO any day, at least I can drink the coffee.
I agree, the look on her face as they closed the segment told volumes, she was very grim and knew that she had performed poorly, Way, way out of her league!
In the second part of the interview, which I didn't transcribe, Wallace confronted her with some criticism from a Washington Post editorial, accusing her of spending money on pork projects. Wallace also showed some footage of her complaining about the Bush administration wasting money that should have been spent on flood control. Here's what she looked like at the end of the interview (imageshack is running a bit slow today, so it might take a little while to load). It's not as evident in a still, but it's a real dagger-stare at Chris Wallace:
Just think of the outrage if this had been a Republican that had said that. If Brown had said that he would have been ..... I guess it just shows you how much of the real story we don't even know yet. She was in panic mode.
That's her attitude of the blks of Lousyanna. 'Bout as stupid of a statement I've ever heard. Typical dembo statement.
I'm personally fond of "conceptually challenged".
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