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To: combjelly who wrote (376455)	4/5/2008 5:31:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575981

nagin didn't use the school buses It was so, so much bigger than that, though. The governor was grossly incompetent -- shortly before Katrina, I had had the opportunity (actually, the obligation) to be in the room when she was speaking, and people were getting up and walking out -- she just reeked of incompetence. The mayor was totally unprepared for what was a rather obvious threat to the city. FEMA was never intended as a first responder, and in fact, you cannot have the staging of the required resources so close to the emergency zone that you put those resources at risk. Everyone knew this up front. The truth is that the congregating of desperate people on Convention Center Blvd. was the driver of the emotional backlash, and everyone was put off by it. But the mayor could have easily provided relief for these people by flying in a few choppers worth of water and food -- had he been prepared for the job. The truth of the matter is that FEMA was the ONLY organization that was able to respond in a timely manner, and that was because resources had been staged properly. It was buck-passing at its finest, and the Left and their media dumped on Bush, as usual.

To: combjelly who wrote (376455)	4/5/2008 6:20:17 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575981

The "Dateline" exchange was only the second time Mayor Nagin had been asked about the failure to use his city's school buses, hundreds of which sat 1.2 miles from the Superdome. Two days after the levees broke, Nagin told a New Orleans radio station that he wanted Greyhound Bus Lines to send their entire fleet rather than launch an evacuation in public school buses. "One of the briefings we had they were talking about getting, you know, public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out of here," Nagin said. "I'm like - you've got to be kidding me. This is a natural disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."