Friday, September 02, 2005

Fuming Mayor

The mayor of New Orleans is pissed.

A day before President Bush headed to the hurricane-ravaged South, Mayor Ray Nagin lashed out at federal officials, telling a local radio station "they don't have a clue what's going on down here."

Nagin's interview Thursday night on WWL radio came as President Bush planned to visit Gulf Coast communities battered by Hurricane Katrina, a visit aimed at alleviating criticism that he engineered a too-little, too-late response.

"They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn — excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed," Nagin said.

Nagin said he told Bush in a recent conversation that "we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do it justice ... I have been all around this city and that I am very frustrated because we are not able to marshal resources and we are outmanned in just about every respect."
I guess that's understandable, but then again I noted these pictures this morning:





Why are those buses still there? Why weren't they used to evacuate people on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday?

The emergency plan found on his City's web site has been an abject failure.

And his police force has done a Columbine, preferring to cower rather than get in there and keep order.

Mayor Nagin needs a mirror.

Yahoo! News

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