Posted on 09/02/2005 11:05:34 PM PDT by doug from upland
Would the governor or a federal official ask adjoining state governors to provide additional helicopters?
Thanks. So, if I understand it, although the feds were in charge of coordination after the President's declaration on Saturday, command and control was still in the hands of the governor.
Huh?????
"It is so obvious that it's the governor's and mayor's fault that people are starting to laugh at the MSM. Everyone except the "reporters" and "Democratic Morons" know where the responsibility lies.
My two sentence letter to the MSM and DNC will read as follows: If according to Media reports and fellow democrats, the Fed's are responsible for everything then there is no need for local or state governments anymore. I believe we can do away with them and inaugurate President Bush as Mayor of Chicago and Governor of Illinois immediately."
Did a word search and could not find the word "moral" or "morale". But thanks anyways. BTW I do know the difference between the two. ;)
KAYE: And what is the situation, before I let you go here, what is the situation with the national guard? Because from what I understand, a lot of your national guard is in Iraq. So is the shortage going to affect you?
NAGIN: We're not thinking that it's going to affect us. We just spoke with the general over the national guard and he has 1,500 troops ready to be deployed, with another couple of thousand that they can tap into pretty quickly.
We have the resources. On Wednesday, it seems FEMA found 475 buses to help with the belated evacuation effort. Unfortunately, when it comes to looking after the carless, homeless, the aged and infirm in our country, we — in our quest to become an ownership society — seemed to have allowed our good senses, good will and compassion to go on vacation.
Yep. Those people in NO should be very grateful they have a great president in charge now. Had he not taken over, those people would still be trapped, thirsty, and stranded.
Bush is doing a great job as a state governor as well as president.
Again - "He's the right man, in the right place, at the right time."
So LNG troops were ready on Sunday. 1500 of them immediately with another 2000 on short notice.
Just a guess, I would think the Governor first, after getting an update/request from the Mayor. The Governor is tucked 60 miles away in Baton Rouge and would need an update from the Mayor.
The brunt of the hurricane had not yet reached New Orleans when the flooding started.
Until the hurricane had fully passed, it would have been impossible(safety first) to get anyone in there.
It was a major snafu, no doubt. New Orleans will be used as a case study for many years to come.
darn..I'll figure out this HTML sometime soon I promise
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KAYE: What type of planning have you done, because from what I understand, you've been planning for the big one for a long time. I mean, this is a storm that would force the gulf waters up the Mississippi delta, over those levies that you just mentioned, which protect the city. So what type of planning is in place for this?
NAGIN: The main thing we do is concentrate on the people issues. How do we plan in a manner that evacuates as many people as possible, and secondarily, we deal with individuals who have special needs. They may have medical needs or dialysis or what have you, and then thirdly, we have about 100,000 residents that rely upon public transportation solely. So we have to have a strategy for dealing with the individuals that cannot evacuate and that's the mode that we're in right now.
KAYE: We've seen a lot of pictures of the sick and the injured being evacuated. What about people who don't have any means, people without cars, people who are tourists who can't get a rental car or can no longer get a flight out of there. What's being done for them?
NAGIN: The tourists is a different issue. The mandatory evacuation basically exempted any hotels because we know tourists are having a difficult time getting out. As far as residents who cannot leave because they don't have the financial means, we have provided free bus services this morning where we have about a dozen sites throughout the city that are picking up individuals for free and transporting them to the Louisiana Super Dome, which is the, you know, the facility of last refuge.
KAYE: What about the elderly and those too frail to get out on their own. Is there any effort to go door-to-door and make sure these people aren't lost in the storm?
NAGIN: Yes. Since the mandatory evacuation was issued, we have our police and fire units going throughout all the neighborhoods with their loud speakers and their sirens and they are assisting senior citizens in getting to the pickup places for our public transportation.
for what it's worth.
We can only hope.
Thanks.
Republicans are bad and Democrats are good
I really believe that Lincoln (or you) really meant MORALE rather than MORAL. I did not search for Lincoln's remarks, it's just that the word MORALE is the only word that makes sense in the context of your tagline. However, you have indicated that many words of Lincoln's statement have been omitted, so please excuse me if you really meant, or if Lincoln really said, "MORAL".
" If that is the case and the troops were under her control, why is the President at fault for failure to deliver water for three or four days? "
Because the members of the media are morons.
All day Andrea Mitchell was ranting about why President Bush didn't call in the NG earlier.
Ted Koppel seems to have gotten some enlightenment over the past 24 hours- tonight, he was grilling the local Dem congressman as to why Blanco didn't exercise her constitutional authority regarding alerting and mobilizing the NG. The answer was gobbeldy gook.
President Bush was boxed into a corner-imagine the firestorm if he had said on Monday- I'm taking over.
I also wouldn't be surprised to discover that when FEMA arrived, instead of being an adjunct to New Orleans emergency planning-they discovered they were the whole enchilada.
What did this Blanco do before becoming Governor, Walmart greeter?
I wondered the same thing. Snippet from Blanco Bio
Governor Blanco began her career as a public servant in 1984, when she became the first woman ever elected to represent the people of Lafayette in the state Legislature. Five years later she was elected to the Public Service Commission, where she became the first woman to serve as a Commissioner and, later, as the first woman to chair the Commission (1993-94).
Before joining the public sector, Governor Blanco taught at Breaux Bridge High School, a public school in Southwest Louisiana, not far from the community of Coteau, where she was born. She received a B.S. degree in Business Education from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
What you don't find in the bio is something like: 'Founded and managed a business....'. All you see is 'Public Teat Sucker'.
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