In Katrina’s aftermath, spotlight shines on governor’s response

The only person I’ve heard a whole lot of positive about is Mayor Ray Nagin.

as Mama from Mama's Family would say, "well, whutha'?"

who has said anything positive about him? and Bush coming out the worst? puh-leeze!

41 posted on 09/11/2005 11:52:28 PM PDT by latina4dubya

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42 posted on 09/11/2005 11:57:32 PM PDT by Cedar

The people of Louisiana must be either seriously delusional or seriously stupid. Personally, I'm leaning toward the later if this is in fact the way they are thinking. The suggested "continuum" is unimaginably flawed. For the President to be receiving most of the criticism is just plain ignorant!

Do these people really have no more understanding of government than that? If so, it says some pretty terrible things about our school curriculum!

43 posted on 09/12/2005 12:19:18 AM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")

The only person I’ve heard a whole lot of positive about is Mayor Ray Nagin.

I do not know where you have been or of whom you have been listening but that statement is flat wrong! The one single final authority with responsibility for the well being of New Orleans is the mayor. He is directly and absolutely responsible for the order to evacuate, for the organization of that evacuation, for the law and order within the city, for the operation of the city utilities including the storm drain pumps. In effect, he is commander-in-chief of the city of New Orleans. He flat out failed to perform in all his important duties prior to, during and after the hurricane. I do not know what he did but I will say this, he has a lot in common with NERO!!

There was not one thing he could do to stop, delay, subdue or otherwise have any effect on the hurricane. However, he had to know that his city was about to flood in a catastrophic way with levee failures and to loose all electric power for many days if not weeks with this storm. The Superdome was not an effective emergency shelter with those conditions.

I simply do not know how the man can live with himself knowing that rest home patients drown in their beds, hospital patients died for lack of proper care facilities having no hope of rescue and many more New Orleans citizens perished when overcome with the flood waters when a well organized evacuation performed at the earliest possible time could have prevented. The evacuation should have begun on Friday August 26 at the latest not 20 hours before impact.

44 posted on 09/12/2005 12:22:45 AM PDT by Deano4USA

To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

Hmmmm, if I lived in a city as tenuous as New Orleans, I think I would want a Governor who had, certainly, the POTENTIAL to be a "crisis manager". In this day and age, everyone's Governor had better be a "crisis manager". There's just too damn many bad things that can happen-----everywhere!

45 posted on 09/12/2005 12:27:00 AM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")

ROTFL! What a STUNNING descriptor-----and so apropo!

46 posted on 09/12/2005 12:32:20 AM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")

To: Graybeard58; All

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47 posted on 09/12/2005 1:39:53 AM PDT by backhoe

I'm still not sure about that. She looked more to me like a hack boxer taking a dive for a fiver. One who can't even make it look real. It looks like something's going on behind the scenes on this one, I'm just not sure what.

48 posted on 09/12/2005 1:40:05 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan)

I saw the fight between Wallace and Landreiu on FOX. That was the stupidest politician I have ever seen on TV, and that includes some real RAT nut-jobs. Between the mayor, governor and senators, the people of NO are royally screwed.

BTW, the words I would pick are 'corrupt' and "criminally incompetent".

Something that bothers me is the RINOs Vitter, and Jindal sp?...giving cover to these idiots....this "there's enough blame to go around" drives me nuts...

49 posted on 09/12/2005 3:33:29 AM PDT by conservativehusker (GO BIG RED!!!!)

To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Hillary '08 is what's going on.

50 posted on 09/12/2005 4:09:06 AM PDT by Free Vulcan

51 posted on 09/12/2005 4:27:44 AM PDT by Ellesu (www.thedeadpelican.com)

As a former governor and now a businessman, Roemer said he must look at the situation through two sets of eyes.

"A political answer would be that it has been an overwhelming crisis and anyone would have had a problem," he said. "She hasn’t run. She has rolled up her sleeves, and I like that. A totally honest answer, with all the bark off, is no governor has ever faced this kind of crisis. It’s new ground. My hope is she’ll get more help from the federal government, which I think has let her down, and she’ll lead in terms of planning for the future."

The federal government let her down??? How about she didn't let her ego down so that she could receive the help she needed.

52 posted on 09/12/2005 10:43:32 AM PDT by AckyQuack

Do these people really have no more understanding of government than that? If so, it says some pretty terrible things about our school curriculum!

Well who's been running the schools for the last forty years, and they learned exactly what they wanted them to learn. They learn to hate America.

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