http://rayfelitto3.com, but I don't see any NO ones on the site...........
Posted on 09/05/2005 12:14:06 AM PDT by HAL9000
Frustrated and grieving, Mayor Ray Nagin on Sunday again ripped the painfully slow response of state and federal authorities to the plight of tens of thousands of stranded New Orleanians in the days following Hurricane Katrina, saying their inaction cost lives and caused needless misery.Nagin singled out Gov. Kathleen Blanco for criticism, saying that the governor had asked for 24 hours to think over a decision when time was a luxury that no one, especially refugees, had.
“When the president and the governor got here, I said, 'Mr. President, Madame Governor, you two have to get in synch. If you don't, more people are going to die.”
Blanco and Bush met privately at his insistence, Nagin said, after which Bush came out and told Nagin that he had given Blanco two options, and she requested a full day to decide.
“It would have been great if we could have walked off Air Force One and told the world we had it all worked out,” Nagin said. “It didn't happen, and more people died.”
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If they started early enough, they could have gotten almost everyone out who wanted to leave.
According to liberals, incompetence and stupidity is always confused with a conspiracy. Think about it.
Why not tell the union to stick it and let city employees or civilians run the buses?
I truly hope we really have hearings, The RATS run every city like this and this should be a wakeup call to all big cities of what they face with RATS in office.
The best part is this stupid mayor running around complaining and blaiming everyone else for everything while he just contributed to the sense of chaos.
http://rayfelitto3.com, but I don't see any NO ones on the site...........
Why wouldn't he want to be in that meeting? Why would he have to insist on a private meeting? This sounds as though he was having two subordinates work out something he was only supervising.
As I read it, the "his" in that sentence refers to GWB's insistence, not Nagin's.
I think that it was appropriate for the president, on behalf of the federal government, to meet privately with the governor, the head of the state government. In a private setting, they could be brutally candid with each other without pressure to "play nice" with each other.
I can hardly envision the possibility of a governor and the president bowing to the 'insistence' of a feckless mayor.
ROTFL!
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