Posted on 09/03/2005 10:48:40 AM PDT by new yorker 77
To be blunt...Nagin and Blanco simply have no leadership skills...they are pure politicans. They can talk a great talk...but in terms of sitting at a table and demanding action and being creative...they lack all of the essential skills. I doubt if MSM notices that...but its very obvious that they are out of their league.
Ever hear of Lawton Childs?
When things settle down, there should be a recall for this governor. However, I think her term will expire before things are back in order.
It's to bad they did not elect Bobby Jindal in 2003.
A website I frequent that has lots of info for thought on Katrina:
http://www.qando.net/default.aspx?tabid=38
Just making sure that blame is correctly assigned.
They are SICK people. And I'll tell you what..if they don't knock off the race crap, they're going to lose sympathy as well as contributions. Funny, how I haven't heard about Nagin's friends getting special privileges aheaad of his poor folk.
do you have a link to this??
BULLSEYE.
Heck, compare Blanco (D-LA) to Barbour (R-MS), or Nagin (D-NO) to Holloway (R-Biloxi) in the midst of the exact same storm.
The difference is striking.
You guys should hear http://www.wabcradio.com right now, excellent.
Can I borrow your tagline?
Don't forget governor Perry of Texas ... he's doing an amazing job with the relief efforts.
He went ahead without them. He called them twice ahead, they said they had it under control. He went on TV and issued a state of emergency for two of the states and asked for mandatory evac... he stopped waiting for them to do something. FEMA (not in NO) had already met with him on it and they couldn't get in yet. I am telling you neither this mayor (who I heard was really a good guy, but totally out of his element...who knew, I didn't see it) or Blanco had no clue about SOP. After Nagin's rant a reporter asked him if he knew the governor of the state has to ask for assistance... he was totally blank and shocked. Too much.
You're right about the attorney general, I saw him on one of the news channel and when asked about the looting he tried to downplay it and justify it.
Easy, Jeb and Rudy are mature and competent leaders, the others are not.
Footnote: The former's attributes are hallmarks of Republicans and the latter's are deficiency hallmarks of Democrats.
I find it interesting that while there's no shortage of criticism of GWB by the MSM for the response to this disaster I have yet to hear any journalists report that since they were coming to New Orleans to report on the tragedy they had the forethought to bring food and water themselves to distribute among the needy. After all, doesn't every bit help?
I wish one of these assho!es would shove a mic in my face because that's the first question I'd ask him. Sheppard Smith of FOX said this morning he and his crew were staying somewhere an hour away from New Orleans. What makes me think he didn't haul any people out with him last night? Yet he and others have the audacity to bitch and moan that "it's just taking too long". He and others need to understand that sometimes it's just more important to do the right thing than to simply report the story.
Well, they are future democratic voters.
Clearly, neither the N.O. mayor, not the La guv did their jobs. The mayor is the one who clearly blew it. FYI, here is site address of the City of New Orleans own Emergency Preparedness for Hurricanes document. Just about everything the mayor did NOT do correctly or at all are stated his or his city's responsibility.
www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tabid+26
Go about half waydown through the document to Annex I Hurricanes. Then, read the sections covering Warning, Evacuation (especially) and Sheltering.
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