[wagglebee]

A feckless state governor and New Orleans' mayor repeated the same mistakes they made with Ivan, and hundreds of thousands of largely poor people were forced to endure conditions that one associates with the Third World - not the richest nation on the planet.

If Nagin and Blanco had an ounce of pride, they would resign in disgrace.

[ncountylee]

A feckless state governor and New Orleans' mayor repeated the same mistakes they made with Ivan, and hundreds of thousands of largely poor people were forced to endure conditions that one associates with the Third World - not the richest nation on the planet.

Double hanging would be fitting.

[big'ol_freeper]

Ping

[plain talk]

Eventually, tens of thousands of New Orleanans were directed to the Superdome - where no food, water or living facilities were provided for the massive number of refugees expected to remain there for at least several days. Fortunately few arrived.

Incredible ineptness at the local level.

[Darksheare]

Seppeku.
The only honorable out for them, but they have no honor.

[DJ Taylor]

"If Nagin and Blanco had an ounce of pride, they would resign in disgrace."

But they don't, so they'll simply blame President Bush for their incompetence.

[dfwgator]

Democrats: "You F'd Up, You Trusted Us."

[Polybius]

Just last year the Associated Press predicted all of the failures that have became part of the Katrina tragedy -

Forget about the Associated Press. They have no particular credibility in such matters.

What matters is that scientists at LSU and the Federal Government have been predicting this nightmare scenario for years.

The levies surrounding the New Orleans flood basin was not designed to cope with anything above a Category 3.

Katrina was predicted as a Category 5 and hit as a Category 4.

Hypothetical Hurricane Pam..........a hypothetical, slow moving, Class 3 storm used as a worst-case scenario for New Orleans

Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes Release Date: July 23, 2004

Note that in the 2004 Hurricane Pam Excersise:

"....in the New Orleans area. More than one million residents evacuated and Hurricane Pam destroyed 500,000-600,000 buildings."

Everybody got that?

The "Hurricane Pam" scenario called for the evacuation of New Orleans BEFORE New Orleans was destroyed and FEMA's job was to then come in and clean up the mess.

The Democrat Governor of Louisianna and the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans did NOTHING to evacuate New Orleans' low-income population although hundreds of city-owned buses remained neatly parked in city-owned parking lots.

[roses of sharon]

Resign? But their PR firms, the US media, have told the WORLD that THEY WERE THE VICTIMS OF GEORGE W BUSH.

He was sunbathing, playing guitar, and golfing while black people died, don't ya know.

Bastards, I am sick of their slandering of the US and its President.

[johnny7]

Set them loose in the Astrodome... and let nature take its course.

[kcordell]

If Nagin and Blanco had an ounce of pride, they would resign in disgrace.

So should the Levee Commission. If they had upgraded the levees instead of buying a casino this could have been averted.

[blake6900]

It's clear the mayor of New Orleans was--and is--an incompetent boob. Or perhaps he's just a corrupt politician. We'll find out soon enough.

New Yorkers should thank God Rudy Guiliani was the mayor of their city at the time of the 9/11 attacks and not his predecessor, David Dinkins, who was both an incompetent boob and a corrupt politician.

I wonder if the New Orleans mayor is a Dinkins protege.

[freekitty]

Nothing gets done; because that's not the politicians agenda. They are way to busy living the high life off of our backs.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

"... Eventually, tens of thousands of New Orleanans were directed to the Superdome ... "

And they went!

[Pharmboy]

I work with a manager who thinks he's there to have all the trappings of his position but does nothing good for the company. It's all about him.

This governor and mayor remind me of him.

[maggief]

[PennsylvaniaMom]

The total ineptness is stunning. As late as Saturday night, early Sunday morning we were discussing here on FR that Nagin was going to talk to the city attorney's to find out if they could 'order' and evacuation. They didn't know if they could or couldn't? The school busses didn't flood until Tuesday...so they could have been used to evacuate on Saturday and Sunday (prior to Katrina). And lastly, on Sunday they showed the traffic on I-10 leaving NO. The inbound lanes were completely empty...why didn't they open both sides to expedite the evacuation? It appears that poor planning skills is a requisite for local govt. positions.

[Victoria]

I don't know how Newsmax would stay in business without Free Republic to provide the base for most of their articles.

[solitas]

FauX News is treating nagin like he's the Second Coming - only mentioning him positively (bitching about slow aid, meeting with Bush).

Anyone think FauX will ever ask him about the buses, or his actions during Ivan?

[timestax]

bttt

[Eagle Eye]

A resignation from life in a manner similar to hari-kari would be adequate but they don't have enough honor to do so.