Posted on 08/29/2010 7:00:10 AM PDT by Libloather
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WATCH: Leadership Amidst Tragedy - Former Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin reflects on Katrina.
WATCH: Heroes of Katrina - Remembering those who cared for the helpless and rescued the stranded.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Katrina barely glanced New Orleans. However, because the Democrats in Louisiana had neglected the levees over a 45 year period, coupled with a plantation-mentality they created among their key voters, the breaks caused flooding and a class of people who didn't know how to get into a car and drive off, were waiting for gubmint to take care of them.
Just venting, because Mississippi caught the bulk of the hurricane, yet gets very little mention.
The gulf oil disaster is still unfolding but it’s back to “Bush’s Katrina” all weekend.
Any mention of Mitch Landereu? You know, the current mayor who back then was head of the Louisiana Dept of Homeland Security and prevented the Red Cross from going into NO because “We want those people to come out of there”.
You’re absolutely right to be angry. Louisiana Gov. Blanco (D) refused to give the Bush Admin. the authority to take over because of sheer partisan politics. When all hell broke loose NOLA Mayor Nagin(D) did nothing but run around with his hair on fire blaming everyone else for his failings. The media blamed Bush for everything including causing the storm. In Mississippi, which suffered greater devastation than anywhere else, the Governor and the people got to work without bellyaching and put the state back on it’s feet. Today, if you listen to the national media, the only place you’d think ever saw a hurricane is New Orleans.
You had a class THREE hurricane swipe the city while making landfall to the east. You had days of warning prior that there was danger coming. By most non-partisan reports, the governmental structures and people saw that the hurricane missed the city and ASSUMED everything was OK. It was the aftermath, when the flood surge broke through the levees and everyone was caught off guard that it went to H$^#! Then everyone flubbed it INCLUDING THE MEDIA and when the locals covered their worthless asses by blaming the Bush Administration, it became the story.
To be trotting out Nagin as any kind of expert is to continue "being stuck on stupid"! Bush did make mistakes as did FEMA and the rest but it is hard to get a clear action plan when all you are getting is idiot reports. Forgotten completely is that, BY DESIGN and CHARTER, the Federal Response is backup to Local and State Governments and has to be REQUESTED by the State.
Just laugh at the joke and move on, it doesnt help to be upset by the idiocy of making Nagen a hero
The “failures” of Katrina were ALL local, on the part of its governor, on the part of New Orlean’s mayor and his police chief, and on the part of the ruling liberal elite who sustained a helpless “government plantation society” mentality over a large swath of the local citizens.
You can back-out many of the decisions, and failures to make decisions, on the part of the governor and the mayor and a very large portion of the worst immediate human tragedies could have been avoided, with no different actions on the part of FEMA.
The fact that over 200,000 New Orlean’s area citizens have not returned is NOT a testament to the amount of recovery that yet needs to be done, but to the better local societies they found when they left New Orleans.
The state media has its orders from the WH - the Dims are running against Bush in November.
The “Heroes” piece also fails to mention the role of the Coast Guard, or any military service.
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