A question posed by one of our readers:
I’M CONFUSED…………………………….
How can 2+ million people get in and out of Washington, DC in sub zero temps in 1 day when 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans at 85 degrees with four days notice?Can anyone explain this to me?
AWB
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Spoken as a non-Democrat who thinks both parties suck … the obvious answer is that Democrats know how to coordinate and get things done, and Republicans don’t?
Oh, I get it now!
The republicans ran New Orleans, right? Let’s see..
Clarence Ray Nagin – Democrat Mayor of New Orleans.
From Wiki:
On Sunday morning August 28, Katrina became a Category 4 hurricane, and, with fewer than 24 hours left before the storm’s landfall, Nagin declared a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans..
Maybe it would have been better to take away the Mayor’s rights, have the feds step-in, take over and get everyone’s ass out of there?
Yeah, right.
Chronic inability to make sensible decisions?
Because the ONLY place in the entire south there was a problem was New Orleans?
Come on, get a clue, the entire south was screwed by Katrina, and it was because Bush was an idiot in his response….
I think it’s funny that you’re AGAINST the feds stepping in and tromping all over local gov’t's rights, but when it comes to the Medical Marijuana, and the various slew of other abuses of power by the Bush administration, THOSE are perfectly fine,… they’re “justified”… but stepping in to save lives? Oh, no, we couldn’t POSSIBLY overstep our authority, blah blah blah.
Man Derek, I’d like to know what you are smoking……………..
I’d say the people who went to Washington got out of town the same way the people in New Orleans would have got out of town, SOMEONE ELSE did it for them!
I tire of hearing how Bush should have done something to get them out of New Orleans. If their house was on fire there, they wouldn’t have been waiting for the federal gov’t to save them, they would have got their ass out of there.
the aftermath looked like a hurricane hit the mall
derek “medical marijuana” that says it all doesnt it
i was listening to WWL in NOLA the saturday night before Katrina hit. around 10pm they interviewed Nagin who said’ “i thought i was doing a pretty good job with this hurricane thing” until the head of the national hurricane service interrupted his dinner “and told me,’ you have to evacuate that city NOW’ “. he then went on to explain he could do nothing until “I talk to the lawyers in the morning” so he could find out whether they could force evacuation with out getting sued into oblivion. Yes, George Bush messed up the response. Nagin committed the crime, and should be serving time for several cases of manslaughter at the very least.
zeak: what’s that supposed to mean?
Well, MOST of the people got INTO D.C. on BUSES…!
And when Katrina hit N.O., the city had HUNDREDS of ALL those (empty) SCHOOLBUSSES that SAT…and SAT…and SAT (eventually getting flooded out themselves, rendering them worthless for evac, thanks to Nagin’s INACTION)
How am I doing SO far?
The people who waited on the govt (4 days warning) are the same ones waiting by the gas pump for Obama to personaly fill their tank. Guess what, Repub or Dem–they aint going to save you if you count on them you lose. My bro is a cop in key west, and folks live in FL, they have the southern boy can survive mode and everyone does decent. New Orleans had the city slicker “take care of me” some may call it the liberal progressibe attitude and it shows.
and just think only 14 of them actually missed work..
you know what it means derek
No, actually, I don’t….
If you’re implying that I’m some sort of pothead because I support the States’ right to determine for themselves whether or not something can be prescribed, you would be wrong. I can honestly say I’ve never partaken of any recreational drug, of any kind, ever, and I haven’t had a drop of alcohol cross my lips in over 25 years. I’m “straight edge” without actually ever having taken some kind of crazy straight-edge vow to stay that way.
If the implication is that believing in states-rights (e.g., the right of the state to determine medical practices within that state) is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. Our forefathers believed in a weak central government that only had enough power to do what it NEEDED to do, and there is no NEED for the federal government to meddle in what can and cannot be prescribed by doctors.