...whenever a dum-o-crat speaks..... BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!! REPUBLICANS ARE WHY DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED CITIES CAN'T HIRE RELIABLE WORKERS!!!!
Thank you, Mary. Did Mr. Bill write your talking points for you today?
WOW! She is in big time spin mode. I've never seen such ridiculous spin in my life. Ever.
And good for Wallace for not letting her off the hook and to keep asking the question. Why weren't the buses used.
Thank you for posting this!
Please tell me this woman will be called to testify. Any decent prosecutor with an ounce of brains will make mincemeat of her.
Chris Wallace doesn't have what it takes to go for the kill with an interviewee. Especially a liberal interviewee.
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?
...whenever a dum-o-crat speaks.....
Senator Landrieu, here's what I see as "the truth." You are an elected federal official from the state of Louisiana. You are blaming the feds for the failure of the local governments in the evacuation of New Orleans. Inasmuch as you are a federal official - what have you done in order to ensure that evacuations would take place? What legislation have you proposed or supported regarding federal evacuations in the event of disasters?
As a duly elected federal official from Louisiana, I would think that it was your responsibility and your duty to know what hazards faced NOLA, and to take the appropriate actions to lessen or eliminate those hazards. What have you done towards that end?
How many times were you on the phone with the state government and city government to request or order a mandatory evacuation of NOLA including the use of city transportation assets?
The truth, Senator, is that you failed to take the appropriate actions. The governor of the state failed to take the appropriate action, and the mayor of the town failed to take the appropriate action. Had that action been taken though, I feel quite certain that you would find something else to try to attack the President over.
String her up - and why did not the state provide for a plan to seal off breeched canal levees. That is going to cost us billions
"....I love the sound of liberals squeeeeeling in the morning...."
Landrieu and Blanco both are more hysterical each time they are interviewed. They have both lost any credibility they thought they had. It would be better for them to just be quiet and dodge interviews. What politician can do that?
I have yet to see a competant or honest Democrat from LA open their mouth on this subject. Guess the people get exactly what they elect.
Why is this B!tch not in a straight jacket or jail cell? Listening to her over the last two weeks....I really think she is dangerous.
Huh??
The difference between Barbour and Blanco was the difference between a Yugo and a BMW.
Is it possible Landrieu is a delusional 50 year-old crack-addict?
III. Roles and Responsibilities This section discusses the roles and responsibilities of Federal, State, local, tribal, private-sector, and nongovernmental organizations and citizens involved in support of domestic incident management.
Police, fire, public health and medical, emergency management, public works, environmental response, and other personnel are often the first to arrive and the last to leave an incident site. In some instances, a Federal agency in the local area may act as a first responder, and the local assets of Federal agencies may be used to advise or assist State or local officials in accordance with agency authorities and procedures. Mutual aid agreements provide mechanisms to mobilize and employ resources from neighboring jurisdictions to support the incident command.
When State resources and capabilities are overwhelmed, Governors may request Federal assistance under a Presidential disaster or emergency declaration. Summarized below are the responsibilities of the Governor, Local Chief Executive Officer, and Tribal Chief Executive Officer.
Governor -- As a State’s chief executive, the Governor is responsible for the public safety and welfare of the people of that State or territory.
The Governor:
¦ Is responsible for coordinating State resources to address the full spectrum of actions to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents in an all-hazards context to include terrorism, natural disasters, accidents, and other contingencies;
¦ Under certain emergency conditions, typically has police powers to make, amend, and rescind orders and regulations;
¦ Provides leadership and plays a key role in communicating to the public and in helping people, businesses, and organizations cope with the consequences of any type of declared emergency within State jurisdiction;
¦ Encourages participation in mutual aid and implements authorities for the State to enter into mutual aid agreements with other States, tribes, and territories to facilitate resource-sharing;
¦ Is the Commander-in-Chief of State military forces (National Guard when in State Active Duty or Title 32 Status and the authorized State militias); and
¦ Requests Federal assistance when it becomes clear that State or tribal capabilities will be insufficient or have been exceeded or exhausted.
Local Chief Executive Officer -- A mayor or city or county manager, as a jurisdiction’s chief executive, is responsible for the public safety and welfare of the people of that jurisdiction.
The Local Chief Executive Officer:
¦ Is responsible for coordinating local resources to address the full spectrum of actions to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents involving all hazards including terrorism, natural disasters, accidents, and other contingencies;
¦ Dependent upon State and local law, has extraordinary powers to suspend local laws and ordinances, such as to establish a curfew, direct evacuations, and, in coordination with the local health authority, to order a quarantine;
¦ Provides leadership and plays a key role in communicating to the public, and in helping people, businesses, and organizations cope with the consequences of any type of domestic incident within the jurisdiction;
¦ Negotiates and enters into mutual aid agreements with other jurisdictions to facilitate resource-sharing; and
¦ Requests State and, if necessary, Federal assistance through the Governor of the State when the jurisdiction’s capabilities have been exceeded or exhausted.
My only question is WHERE ARE OUR GOP REPRESENTATIVES PUTTING THESE PEOPLE IN THEIR PLACE. Our problems (always) is that we allow all the BS for days and let them get a head start bringing in all the wackos out of the woodwork and then It's difficult to do any kind of damage control - and it's not the damage of the hurricane, it's damage done by those who blame and whine the loudest and get aways with this. By the time the truth comes out the damage has already been done.
Yeah, I'm with you. I don't get it either. So if Bush did "believe in mass transit," (ignoring, btw, that such systems are always the result of local initiative, planning and decisions) then Nagin would simply have had more buses to leave parked and flooded. I mean, he didn't use the buses he had, what difference would it have made if he'd had more?
Mary was weak, lame, illogical as well as rude and angry. How the 'Rats can think this approach is going to work for them is beyond my ken, but then so is most 'Rat logic.
Oh, and Mary's comment about "now is not the time to point fingers!" I laughed out loud. How dumb was that?! She had to know that Chris would have the video of her own over-the-top finger pointing and blame shifting cued up.