Her comment was dumb, but Newsmax, in Newsmax fashion, took the line out of context. She meant that because of the "Bush budget cuts" to mass transit, cities couldn't transport their people to work on a good day, no less move people during a hurricane.This is how I saw it as well, especially since right afterwards, she went on a tirade about how the president and this administration does not support public transit.
I think Rush is blowing it on this one -- there are far more opportunities to show the subtle racism of low expectations. This just ain't one, sorry!
Landrieu is a blockhead, and for a moment I thought she was saying what Rush thinks she said, but when you listen to her whole tirade (which I went back and replayed a few times) it is pretty clear that she was saying something else just as STUPID: not that mayors can't get people to do any work (which is how it first sounded), but that somehow more federal support for mass transit would have solved the NOLA evacuation problem.
Now the latter is really just as stupid as the former, because (1) it is NOT the responsibility of the federal government to provide urban mass transit, only socialist Demagogues think that way, and (2) a lot of mass transit (subways, light rail, etc.) would be irrelevant to NOLA evacuation, and (3) why would more buses in NOLA have made any difference in this case when they didn't even make the slightest effort to use the hundreds of buses they did have????
What Landrieu did not really say, but what Nagin HAS said, is that NOLA had no realistic plan to execute their own emergency plan, i.e., their own bus drivers were all leaving town and were in no way expected to operate the hundreds of municipal and school buses they did possess to get poor people out of town.
>>Her comment was dumb, but Newsmax, in Newsmax fashion, took the line out of context. She meant that because of the "Bush budget cuts" to mass transit, cities couldn't transport their people to work on a good day, no less move people during a hurricane. <<
So that explains why NO BUSES were used? None???
Her answer was just like the rest of her ghastly performance. It was her desperate, flailing, "Grab any old lie and throw it out there and hope it sticks" answers.
It was idiotic, and in no way would any rational person believe that President Bush was responsible for the fact that the Mayor NEVER ONCE brought up the use of the buses, which was his responsibility. Don't forget, she also explained that she explained another reason the buses were not used: "Those buses are underwater."
How...friggin...STUPID does she think we are? Chris Wallace pointed out that they were not underwater Saturday or Sunday, but she steamrolled on and wouldn't acknowledge it. She was too busy spouting more lies.
She said flat out that she was going to blame George Bush and no one else. There was no "intelligence" behind her answers, whatsoever. They were desperate lies, and Mary Landrieu is a desperate liar.
