More on New Orleans
Time for some angry blogging.
Next time you hear NO mayor Nagin whining that he "need[s] 500 buses" or "get every Greyhound bus in the country and get them moving", remember this. The city of New Orleans had over 200 school buses and nearly 350 city buses that could have been used to get residents out of the city. Why didn't he use those? When he heard people suggesting that school buses were being brought in to take some of the refugees away, he seemed to reject it. What is this guy's problem? Some will say (and some have said) that things were fine until the levee broke, so we shouldn't blame him for not getting them out of town. Try again. Remember all those news reports before the hurricane hit? It looked like NO was going to be hit head-on by a cat 5 and the levees were going to be useless. Nobody saw this coming? THEY'VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT IT FOR FORTY YEARS!!!!!! Moreover, even with all the dire predictions before the storm, they apparently didn't bother to adequately stock the Superdome, convention center, and other sites with adequate supplies (most especially bottled water and food). Same deal for Terry Ebbert, head of emergency operations for New Orleans. These people should be in jail for negligent manslaughter.
Meanwhile, while city officials refused to use the buses, some people did. Jabbar Gibson, 20, commandeered an abandoned school bus and used it to get over 50 people out of the city and to the Astrodome. Infuriatingly, he may now face criminal charges. I say Gibson for mayor. Throw out the incompetent Nagin (who does nothing but naggin') and put in somehow who has a head on his shoulders. A 20-year-old as mayor? They've already done worse.
Also, check out this bit of hypocrisy from the New York Times. It wails about Congress cutting funding for flood control earlier this year (I've already addressed why this wouldn't have done anything in my last post), but it had complained that they were spending too much on it back in April. Anything that smears Republicans, I guess.
Next time you hear NO mayor Nagin whining that he "need[s] 500 buses" or "get every Greyhound bus in the country and get them moving", remember this. The city of New Orleans had over 200 school buses and nearly 350 city buses that could have been used to get residents out of the city. Why didn't he use those? When he heard people suggesting that school buses were being brought in to take some of the refugees away, he seemed to reject it. What is this guy's problem? Some will say (and some have said) that things were fine until the levee broke, so we shouldn't blame him for not getting them out of town. Try again. Remember all those news reports before the hurricane hit? It looked like NO was going to be hit head-on by a cat 5 and the levees were going to be useless. Nobody saw this coming? THEY'VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT IT FOR FORTY YEARS!!!!!! Moreover, even with all the dire predictions before the storm, they apparently didn't bother to adequately stock the Superdome, convention center, and other sites with adequate supplies (most especially bottled water and food). Same deal for Terry Ebbert, head of emergency operations for New Orleans. These people should be in jail for negligent manslaughter.
Meanwhile, while city officials refused to use the buses, some people did. Jabbar Gibson, 20, commandeered an abandoned school bus and used it to get over 50 people out of the city and to the Astrodome. Infuriatingly, he may now face criminal charges. I say Gibson for mayor. Throw out the incompetent Nagin (who does nothing but naggin') and put in somehow who has a head on his shoulders. A 20-year-old as mayor? They've already done worse.
Also, check out this bit of hypocrisy from the New York Times. It wails about Congress cutting funding for flood control earlier this year (I've already addressed why this wouldn't have done anything in my last post), but it had complained that they were spending too much on it back in April. Anything that smears Republicans, I guess.
posted by DC | 11:52 PM
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