Senators chastise La. governor over poor Katrina evacuation plans

Easy for Senator from Maine to go at La. Governor with a bat! She's never been in Blanco's situation! For heaven sakes, this WAS a disaster. Who can predict how the Maine Senator would have handled it, if she (horror of horrors) was a Democrat Governor with Republicans in power in Washington. The loss of life, the suffering for countless families, the economic base removed...that would stun any Governor. I really see the Maine Senator s more vindictive with her needling than a fair statesman trying to just the facts.

Blanco's failure to act is the problem here. Her ability to blame others is without peer.

bbgone wrote:

Blanco's failure to act is the problem here. Her ability to blame others is without peer.

Is she really the only one to blame? No, of course not, so since nobody has the corner on the blame, hold the whole government responsible for their obvious failure, punish them as we would be punish for such a failure and make sure a so called leader actually leads next time.

Wake up brother, The Govenor is in charge untill you asks. The Govt cannot intervene. That is so Federal troops don't take over. She would not let Federal aid into her state. She refused helos that were offered. She is to blame. The political future is what she cared about, not LA

>>Wake up brother, The Govenor is in charge untill you asks.

I'm glad you mentioned this because the Governor asked for help more than a day before Katrina even made landfall...

I believe the OPSB sent school busses to New Orleans, but the Governor turned them around and sent them back before they could get to New Orleans. What does that tell you.

The focus is being put on Blanco, but it was really Bush and his band of criminal cronies that are to blame...

It's fitting that 9th Ward would follow the Liberal line of blaming Bush.
She or He is not thinking with their own brain, just repeating what the Masters of Slaves (Liberals) are telling them to say.
I grew up in a Liberal Democrat family and belived the hogwash I was told until I got a job and was on my own and when my first paycheck arrived and the taxes that were removed to pay others to stay home and have babies to build the Liberal voting base, I became a conservative.
I believe in helping those who cannot help themselves, but when generations of families live on Federal assistance without lifting a finger, buying cars, free food, and discounted housing, I draw the line.
When you are a slave to the Liberal Democrat party, you are a slave to their their way of thinking and you repeat what they say and you vote how they say and they promise more to you if you remain their slave.
It was a Conservative Republican that freed the slaves during the civil war, and it's Liberal Democrats that keep the slaves down on the farm.

Mimi Williams wrote:

I believe the OPSB sent school busses to New Orleans, but the Governor turned them around and sent them back before they could get to New Orleans. What does that tell you.

According to my child's school bus driver the LA State Police officer he spoke with when he arrived told him that FEMA said they had enough.

Not to absolve Blanco or Nagin from blame (because there are certainly things that could have been done differently), but they were pretty much limited in what they could actually do. Bush's faults lie with his hiring of non-qualified individuals who simply did not care as evidenced by Michael Brown's comments in his released emails.

If you really want a place to put the blame, place it on FEMA, but even then you must realize that they have been hamstrung by their merging with DHS resulting inhuge budget cuts. FEMA's funding for the completion of the Hurricane Pam exercise was cut, cancelling an event that would have filled in a lot of blanks and completed the plan for dealing with this mess. Blanco and Nagin were left holding the smoldering remains of their predecessor's mistakes. To place the blame of decades of corruption in the offices of NOLA mayor and LA Governor, expecting them to overcome that in one term is simply foolish.

Brian wrote:

Not to absolve Blanco or Nagin from blame (because there are certainly things that could have been done differently), but they were pretty much limited in what they could actually do. Bush's faults lie with his hiring of non-qualified individuals who simply did not care as evidenced by Michael Brown's comments in his released emails.

If you really want a place to put the blame, place it on FEMA, but even then you must realize that they have been hamstrung by their merging with DHS resulting inhuge budget cuts. FEMA's funding for the completion of the Hurricane Pam exercise was cut, cancelling an event that would have filled in a lot of blanks and completed the plan for dealing with this mess. Blanco and Nagin were left holding the smoldering remains of their predecessor's mistakes. To place the blame of decades of corruption in the offices of NOLA mayor and LA Governor, expecting them to overcome that in one term is simply foolish.

I don't balme FEMA for anything. Hurricane Katrina caused the extra water and wind damage, but it was dozens of years of neglect of the N.O. levee system, and millions of dollars to rebuild and fortify the levees that were spent elswhere in Louisiana during the last 20+ years.The previous Democrats lined their own pockets knowing New Orleans would someday flood.
The real damage in New Orleans happened because the previous democrats in charge. The Govenors and the Mayors of the past 20-30 years were Liberal Democrats. Vince Foster was a liberal democrat, but faced with Cleo Fields in his own party, Foster changed to Republican to challange Cleo. Inside, Foster is still a Democrat.

FEMA did not act very quickly, granted, but flooding on this scale has never happened anywhere like this before.

What all you Liberal thinkers fail to understand is that if the millions of dollars set aside for the levees system fortification in New Orleans had been spent on the levee system, New Orleans would have NEVER FLOODED, NEVER.
Katrina brought the water, but it was years of Liberal Democrats in charge caused the levee system to break and flood the city of New Orleans. I work in New Orleans, I live in New Orleans, I know the truth, and the truth is not printed in Liberal Newspapers, or spoken on Liberal TV station. Blame it on FEMA. Oh Yea, The sky is falling.

MultiSync wrote:

FEMA did not act very quickly, granted, but flooding on this scale has never happened anywhere like this before.

What all you Liberal thinkers fail to understand is that if the millions of dollars set aside for the levees system fortification in New Orleans had been spent on the levee system, New Orleans would have NEVER FLOODED, NEVER.
Katrina brought the water, but it was years of Liberal Democrats in charge caused the levee system to break and flood the city of New Orleans. I work in New Orleans, I live in New Orleans, I know the truth, and the truth is not printed in Liberal Newspapers, or spoken on Liberal TV station. Blame it on FEMA. Oh Yea, The sky is falling.

Thats correct. REleased right after investigations started revealed that some of that levee funding went to purchase private planes AND casinos.....

tennismmom wrote:

Easy for Senator from Maine to go at La. Governor with a bat! She's never been in Blanco's situation! For heaven sakes, this WAS a disaster. Who can predict how the Maine Senator would have handled it, if she (horror of horrors) was a Democrat Governor with Republicans in power in Washington. The loss of life, the suffering for countless families, the economic base removed...that would stun any Governor. I really see the Maine Senator s more vindictive with her needling than a fair statesman trying to just the facts.

Hey, hold on lighting; Blankstare did not do her job; neither did Nagan, Katrina Mary and the people of Orleans. They should have gotten out, get on the bus and drive out. They were living in a soup bowl and they were informed that Katrina was coming several days before it hit. She needs get out of office now. William

Brian wrote:

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According to my child's school bus driver the LA State Police officer he spoke with when he arrived told him that FEMA said they had enough.

Obviously they didn't though ......

MultiSync wrote:

It's fitting that 9th Ward would follow the Liberal line of blaming Bush.
She or He is not thinking with their own brain, just repeating what the Masters of Slaves (Liberals) are telling them to say.
I grew up in a Liberal Democrat family and belived the hogwash I was told until I got a job and was on my own and when my first paycheck arrived and the taxes that were removed to pay others to stay home and have babies to build the Liberal voting base, I became a conservative.
I believe in helping those who cannot help themselves, but when generations of families live on Federal assistance without lifting a finger, buying cars, free food, and discounted housing, I draw the line.
When you are a slave to the Liberal Democrat party, you are a slave to their their way of thinking and you repeat what they say and you vote how they say and they promise more to you if you remain their slave.
It was a Conservative Republican that freed the slaves during the civil war, and it's Liberal Democrats that keep the slaves down on the farm.

Amen to that. You have said what a lot of people would like to say but don't have the guts. Thanks.

My Dear South Louisiana Brother and Sisters,
The misery that you are now suffering is due to your cronified political and civic leadership - City, Parish, State, Levee Districts, Army Corps of Engineers, the whole lot...

All these organazaions are complicit. They simply refuse to deal with the root causes of the economic disaster every family in South Louisiana faces. The upcoming money-grab under the guise of rebuiding is a bald-faced fleece of the public coffers for the greedy petroleum and marine transportation industries whose rapacious destruction of the wetlands and canal cutting and dredging have led to potential imminent destruction for all on the coast to the shocking degree experienced by citizens of St. Bernard & Plaquemines Parishes.

Everyday I pray for poor black, white and all people displaced by the absolutely undeniable neglect and avarice of the business and political leaders who are responsible.

Because we crave comfort and familiarity, we find ourselves poisoning our progress and undermining our date with destiny. Fear is the thief of all dreams. Old men will dream dreams, but young men will see visions. Nothing noteworthy was ever done without vision. Vision makes the unseen visible and the unknown possible. It is that vision that allows great leaders to rise above corruption and greed in the pursuit of social and economic justice. Vision makes suffering and disappointment bearable. The way things are now is not the way things will always be, if you have vision.

9th Ward wrote:

The focus is being put on Blanco, but it was really Bush and his band of criminal cronies that are to blame...

You should have been here for this, then comment. That idiot of a mayor and Blanco are the political bodies to be first in line for the blame, but how about all those idiots who stayed with a category 5 approaching? Take responsibility and quit bellyaching when you act in a stupid manner and get hurt! Or not, a lot a these people are thieves of my tax dollars and yours.

daps48 wrote:

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Amen to that. You have said what a lot of people would like to say but don't have the guts. Thanks.

Can I get an amen on that one? There are too many of these "slaves" who are on the welfare rolls and don't want off because of what they are being fed by these politicians. WAKE UP!

Mimi Williams wrote:

I believe the OPSB sent school busses to New Orleans, but the Governor turned them around and sent them back before they could get to New Orleans. What does that tell you.

I'll go you one better. We sent buses to New Orleans to evacuate nursing homes and guess what, they commandeered them to take that trash out of the superdome to Houston! Yeah I am mad, our old and sick were left to die. They can't take care of themselves, but the healthy people who knew Katrina was coming could have walked out if nothing else. How stupid, lazy and ignorant can a whole group of people be? On the up side, Mardi Gras didn't have the violence it usually has because most of the criminals were taken elsewhere to live off someone else.