New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin
Posted on 09/19/2005 6:47:22 AM PDT by yankeedame
AND THAT'S NOT ALL .....
Let's see ... what else have we learned in the past week about the response to Katrina.
Doctors from across the United States poured into Louisiana to offer their services in shelters and hospitals treating Katrina's victims. They could do nothing. They just sat. You see, they weren't licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana. It took the amazing Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, five days to sign a waiver to allow these doctors to practice medicine in Louisiana. Five days, while people were suffering and dying. Don't blame Blanco, though. It was clearly Bush's fault.
New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin
On the Saturday before the hurricane New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin received a call from Amtrak. There was a passenger train sitting in the New Orleans station with 900 empty seats. Did the Mayor want to put some evacuees in those seats? No thanks. The train left nearly empty. You cannot blame Mayor Nagin for this decision, that clearly would be racist. It just has to be Bush's fault.
In 1997 the U.S. Congress appropriated $500,000 of your money -- not federal money, taxpayer's money -- to the State of Louisiana. The money was set aside to create a "comprehensive analysis and plan of all evacuation alternatives for New Orleans." Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the big deal here, isn't it? New Orleans didn't get evacuated, right? Well, for two years nothing happened. Then the Congress demanded of Louisiana a plan for evacuation in the event of a category 3 story, a levee break, a flood or some other natural disaster. The $500,000 of your money got to Louisiana .. but then what? It was spent by the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission, not on an evacuation plan, but things that needed to be done to the Lake Pontchartrain causeway over the next fifteen years or so. What does the incredible Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness have to say about the funds and the causeway study? The spokesman says that they can't find any information. Actually, we shouldn't be holding the Louisiana emergency preparedness folks or the state responsible for this ... not when we all know it was Bush's fault.
Speaking of flood control. You did know, didn't you, that in 1996 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was going to raise and strengthen the very levees that failed in New Orleans. They were going to, but they didn't. And why not? Because of a lawsuit, that's why. The plaintiff in the lawsuit didn't want the work done until extensive and expensive environmental impact statements were prepared by the Corps of Engineers and approved by the EPA. And who filed that lawsuit? Why .. it was the Sierra Club. The very same Sierra Club, by the way, that listened with rapt attention in San Francisco on September 9th while Al Gore told them that the leaders of this country ought to be held accountable for the flooding in New Orleans. Now, some of us might be so twisted as to think that the very Sierra Club that was so enthralled by Gore's rantings should bear some of the blame here ... but that's only because we just don't realize that it was all Bush's fault. Oh .. and by the way. Why haven't we heard more about this Sierra Club lawsuit in the mainstream media? Remember the template.
Mayor Ray Nagin is inviting residents of some areas of New Orleans to come back to their homes and businesses and begin the cleanup process. There's another possible hurricane bearing down on the Florida Keys --- a tropical storm that could become a hurricane and could head toward New Orleans. Now it's possible that if over 100,000 residents return to New Orleans and are further victimized by another hurricane and another flood .. will it be Mayor Ray Nagin's fault? Of course not, you idiot! It will be George Bush's fault! Haven't you been paying attention?
Doctors from across the United States poured into Louisiana to offer their services in shelters and hospitals treating Katrina's victims. They could do nothing. They just sat. You see, they weren't licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana. It took the amazing Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, five days to sign a waiver to allow these doctors to practice medicine in Louisiana. Five days, while people were suffering and dying. Don't blame Blanco, though. It was clearly Bush's fault.
It's safe to say then that
Nagin, Blanco and Landrieu have blood on their hands.
Democrats are absolute morons.
Neal Boortz had a call from a left-wing sicko this morning who was blaming Bush for everything in the universe.
Boortz decked the guy. It was fun to hear Neal break out his acid tongue.
Add all those school buses that could have evacuted hundreds out of NO but sat under water becasue there where"no qualified drivers" mean while a teenager "borrowed" one and drove himself AND a bus load of people out of NO to safety
Blanco didn't dare refuse him entry into the city. Far too many other people who were willing to help the victims were turned away.
And .. it isn't just the Gov that's incompetent!
Where was her staff and advisors ..?? The dems are famous for surrounding themselves with peons who are "yes" men. Because of that they cannot get good counsel when they need it most. I'm not excusing the Gov .. I'm just saying she had a lot of help being incompetent.
"Nagin, Blanco and Landrieu have blood on their hands."
That about sums it up. And they wanted Bush to be the scapegoat.
"...while a teenager "borrowed" one and drove himself AND a bus load of people out of NO to safety..."
Hannity wants to talk with that young man, having been a bus driver himself. That would be an interesting talk, I think.
"Boortz decked the guy. It was fun to hear Neal break out his acid tongue."
IMO, Boortz is smart enough to compensate for an anti-Christian soul. That takes a ton of brain power, to see through the leftist lies while not taking religion seriously. He can even see through his own party's BS at times. Few achieve that level. When Boortz is in agreement with the Right, watch out. Powerful combination.
I wish....
I hope he has him on Hannity & Colmes
That teen showed it could be done. They'd have been better off having rank amateurs driving buses than no one. FRegards....
You have a stinging tag line:
(On election day, they were driven to the polls...On evacuation day, they had to fend for themselves)
That's saying a whole lot right there.
Is anyone at FOX -- such as Major Garret or Brit Hume aware of the Blanco/physician issue? Just curious.
This is great, pinging for later reference.
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050919/NEWS01/509190329/0/NEWS01
Edith Bunker answers questions.
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