New Orleans Mayor to Blame, not the President ...

[Nascar_James]

It appears that President Bush had declared a state of emergency within the state of Louisiana a few days before the hurricane hit and had ordered immediate evacuations.

New Orleans Mayor Nagin is to blame in this situation, failing to act on evacuation orders, with parking lots filled with empty school buses that could have been used to evacuate many of New Orleans residents.

Read on ...

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000018155

 

[Ocean Breeze]

NJ......Still defending the C.I.C. ( Criminal in chief) aka Lier in &Thief - are ya??? Oh well, someone will have to..... :roll:

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: New Orleans Mayor to

Nascar Nero, FEMA has been turning away aid. Work being done and aid being given during one of Bush's photo-ops has turned out to be a sham...they began packing it up as soon as Bush was done. Neo-con policies that put corporate profits above all else led to far more suffering than there would have been. Those policies go back to Reagan.

So play that fiddle, Nascar Nero...we all know how this song ends. With poor people, mostly black, dying in the streets because the Republicans can't make a profit off of them.

Your new name reminds of an old Waylon and Willie song, Nascar Nero,
"Don't you play that fiddle, boy,unless you want that fiddle out of tune,
That picker there in trouble boy, ain't nothin' but a darker side of you."

 

[Nascar_James]

Re: RE: New Orleans Mayor to

Nascar Nero, FEMA has been turning away aid. Work being done and aid being given during one of Bush's photo-ops has turned out to be a sham...they began packing it up as soon as Bush was done. Neo-con policies that put corporate profits above all else led to far more suffering than there would have been. Those policies go back to Reagan.

So play that fiddle, Nascar Nero...we all know how this song ends. With poor people, mostly black, dying in the streets because the Republicans can't make a profit off of them.

Your new name reminds of an old Waylon and Willie song, Nascar Nero,
"Don't you play that fiddle, boy,unless you want that fiddle out of tune,
That picker there in trouble boy, ain't nothin' but a darker side of you."

Waylon and Willie song? How does Emperor James remind you of that?

The Bush Administration is relocating all the folks left homeless by the hurricane. Many of these folks already have new homes in numerous states, as far as California.

 

[no1important]

RE: New Orleans Mayor to

What do you think of Barbra Bush's comments?


"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home."

Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism.

read rest here

 

[GL Schmitt]

. . . New Orleans Mayor Nagin is to blame in this situation . . .

Nagin is in deep waters. It all depends on how much wiggle room he had to avoid using the Superdome and Convention Center for shelters of last resort.

The Superdome, at least, was mentioned in the Times-Picayune series “Washing Away” that was published June 23-27, 2002.

No doubt he will receive at least as much censure as he deserves, and probably more, for any failures in the pre-hurricane evacuation, but how anyone can blame him for FEMA not only not responding, but also impeding other agencies and volunteers from responding, is beyond me.

If that is the best that the Not-So-Swift Boat Attack Team can muster, it looks like the War Prez has met his Waterloo.

And please don’t bring in a chorus of “If Only It Been Rudy Giuliani.”

Taking nothing away from Mayor Giuliani, he was faced with a major disaster in the middle of a major city that retained most of it communication systems, had a large body of agencies (most with headquarters in New York) that responded promptly, and was given a vast amount of resources promptly to get the job done.

Mayor Nagin has been faced with a major city in the middle of a major disaster that knocked out all communication, most roads (at least FEMA couldn’t follow CNN along them), and utilities, making New Orleans (in FEMA’s Michael Chertoff’s words) a city under water. (Actually, Chertoff said Louisiana was a city under water, but, for FEMA, that’s close enough, these days.) Response was so slow, that it took over 100 hours for responders to reach the largest concentration of survivors with the minimum of supplies.

Further, I don’t see that Nagin is being the least bit paranoid about what some representative of the government (possibly CIA) may do to a man who publically baited King George, considering what happened to Valerie Plame merely because her husband Joseph C. Wilson refused to validate a presidential lie.

Finally, it may go unnoticed in PC USA where people don’t see colour, but for the rest of the benighted world, it looks like Mayor Nagin is as far down the food chain as one must go to find a change of pigmentation.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

rev:[/quote]we all know how this song ends. With poor people, mostly black, dying in the streets because the Republicans can't make a profit off of them.

wanna bet , these criminals FIND A way to make a profit out of these impovershed black people. give spin factory (k.Rove ) a few days and he will come up with something .....to make them look like humanitarians ......( and the "brown shirts" will buy into it -----as usual. :roll:

Halliburton already has many contracts for "reconstruction' in New Orleans . (same scenario as in Iraq.- just a New Orleans Branch now.. :x

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Re: RE: New Orleans Mayor to

What do you think of Barbra Bush's comments?


"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home."

Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism.

read rest here

Insufferable. :roll: Playing for the audience. One of the most insincere people in the upper leagues of the US. Bromides and platitudes.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Nagin is in deep waters.

word is , that the waters are receding now.... :wink:


(sorry, could not resist...... :wink:


apart from that........you raise some very good points.

Just caught a blurb on the telee......about there being a war of words in the US /G. Seems the damage control team is not making much progress fabricating their usual crap. .....and the BUSH republicans are not a happy little criminal family at the moment. Things getting a tad "warm'. er hot in Washington. Rumor has it that "hell" can get mighty hot.. 8)

( Yes, CRIMINAL. :evil:


could get very interesting.......and meanwhile the poor victims are being paraded on CNN "with their survival tales"...... which just might be another distraction.

 

[GL Schmitt]

Re: RE: New Orleans Mayor to

What do you think of Barbra Bush's comments? . . . .

I posted an audio link (wmp) to Mama Bush's comment in another thread. I don't remember which one. (Google: "Crook and Liars")

You really should hear it.

To me it sounds like an insufficiently—suppressed titter.


Ghastly!

 

[Reverend Blair]

They don't call her the Queen of Mean for nothing.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

They don't call her the Queen of Mean for nothing.

diverting from topic for the moment........but this could explain a lot about wee Georgie. :idea:

 

[jjw1965]

FEMA has put out a bid notice for the program to build the temporary cities (they call it "temporary disaster housing"). The bid is not only a matter of public record, it also is available on the federal government’s Web site.


When president Ronald Reagan was considering invading Nicaragua he issued a series of executive orders that provided the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with broad powers in the event of a "crisis" such as "violent and widespread internal dissent or national opposition against a US military invasion abroad".

On November 7th, 2001 a Detroit Free Press article stated that In the event of a bio-terrorist attack using a deadly and contagious disease such as smallpox, public health officials want to be able to close roads and airports, herd people into stadiums, and, if necessary, quarantine entire infected cities.

These pictures are from here in America

So I have know doubt that they used this as a test for their plans of martial law in the future, so that being said the bush neocons are responsible as much as the state and local governments!

 

[Martin Le Acadien]

. . . New Orleans Mayor Nagin is to blame in this situation . . .

Nagin is in deep waters. It all depends on how much wiggle room he had to avoid using the Superdome and Convention Center for shelters of last resort.

The Superdome, at least, was mentioned in the Times-Picayune series “Washing Away” that was published June 23-27, 2002.

No doubt he will receive at least as much censure as he deserves, and probably more, for any failures in the pre-hurricane evacuation, but how anyone can blame him for FEMA not only not responding, but also impeding other agencies and volunteers from responding, is beyond me.

If that is the best that the Not-So-Swift Boat Attack Team can muster, it looks like the War Prez has met his Waterloo.

And please don’t bring in a chorus of “If Only It Been Rudy Giuliani.”

Taking nothing away from Mayor Giuliani, he was faced with a major disaster in the middle of a major city that retained most of it communication systems, had a large body of agencies (most with headquarters in New York) that responded promptly, and was given a vast amount of resources promptly to get the job done.

Mayor Nagin has been faced with a major city in the middle of a major disaster that knocked out all communication, most roads (at least FEMA couldn’t follow CNN along them), and utilities, making New Orleans (in FEMA’s Michael Chertoff’s words) a city under water. (Actually, Chertoff said Louisiana was a city under water, but, for FEMA, that’s close enough, these days.) Response was so slow, that it took over 100 hours for responders to reach the largest concentration of survivors with the minimum of supplies.

Further, I don’t see that Nagin is being the least bit paranoid about what some representative of the government (possibly CIA) may do to a man who publically baited King George, considering what happened to Valerie Plame merely because her husband Joseph C. Wilson refused to validate a presidential lie.

Finally, it may go unnoticed in PC USA where people don’t see colour, but for the rest of the benighted world, it looks like Mayor Nagin is as far down the food chain as one must go to find a change of pigmentation.

This is being watched in Louisiana, Nagin is at the end of line, the money for the evacuations should have been provided to load people upon the School Buses! More to follow!

 

[Haggis McBagpipe]

Re: RE: New Orleans Mayor to

Your new name reminds of an old Waylon and Willie song, Nascar Nero,
"Don't you play that fiddle, boy,unless you want that fiddle out of tune,
That picker there in trouble boy, ain't nothin' but a darker side of you."

Waylon and Willie may have sung it at some point, but that is a Kris Kristofferson song: 'Don't Cuss The Fiddle'.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: New Orleans Mayor to

I'll go along with that, Haggis. They recorded a bunch of Billy Joe Shaver tunes too. Oh, and JJ Cale.

 

[Haggis McBagpipe]

Re: RE: New Orleans Mayor to

I'll go along with that, Haggis. They recorded a bunch of Billy Joe Shaver tunes too. Oh, and JJ Cale.

Both great writers. My JJ Cale album is a favourite of mine. I'm a big Kristofferson fan, and I've found that - especially in later years - people rarely realize that Kristofferson is responsible for a lot of those great songs still heard.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: New Orleans Mayor to

He and Shaver were part of the outlaw movement though, right from the start. Cale was never really included in that because he was, well, too much of an outlaw.

 

[gopher]

Bush and his minions continue to try to put the blame on everybody but him. When it comes to blame it's always, ANYBODY BUT BUSH.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: New Orleans Mayor to

Yeah, except that clearly doesn't work this time. When Bush rolled FEMA into Homeland Security and brought in the Patriot Act, he put the feds in charge of all disasters, including hurricanes, from start to finish. He took that responsibility and now he's trying to shirk it onto somebody else. I don't think it's going to work.