“One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever”
“One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever”
The president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, Aaron Broussard, just issued an emotional appeal on NBC’s Meet the Press. By the end, he was completely broken down, sobbing uncontrollably:
[Crooks and Liars, as always, has the video.]
RUSSERT: You just heard the director of homeland security’s explanation of what has happened this last week. What is your reaction?
BROUSSARD: We have been abandoned by our own country. Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst storms ever to hit an American coast. But the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history. … Whoever is at the top of this totem pole, that totem pole needs to be chainsawed off and we’ve got to start with some new leadership. It’s not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
Broussard then discussed the difficulties local authorities had with FEMA, including one case where they actually posted armed guards to keep FEMA from cutting their communications lines:
Three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn’t need them. This was a week ago. FEMA, we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. When we got there with our trucks, FEMA says don’t give you the fuel. Yesterday — yesterday — FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards and said no one is getting near these lines…
Finally, Broussard told the tragic personal story of a colleague, and broke down:
I want to give you one last story and I’ll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The guy who runs this building I’m in, Emergency Management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” and he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you.” Somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday… and she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night! [Sobbing] Nobody’s coming to get us. Nobody’s coming to get us. The Secretary has promised. Everybody’s promised. They’ve had press conferences. I’m sick of the press conferences. For god’s sakes, just shut up and send us somebody.
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Wow, wish I could have seen that…
September 4th, 2005 at 11:31 amOne country knows how to do this right, and they’ve been cited as a model by the United Nations International Secretariat for Disaster Reduction. Last year, they evacuationed 1.5 million people in advance of a category 5 hurricane without the loss of a single life. They know how to do it, and we should learn from them. Read about it here.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:40 amNo link dude.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:41 amThe Mealy Mouth Finger Flinger responds to Broussard.
http://www.storytimedolls.net/mmff.html
September 4th, 2005 at 11:43 am>>>>
Wow, wish I could have seen that…
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Don’t worry…I’m sure there will be plenty more of these poignant stories about the utter incompetence and callousness shown by this criminal Bush regime. Whenever the story of this fiasco (and others perpetrated by these bastards) comes to light; and whenever the chickens come home to roost, these people will be exposed for what they are. Let’s not forget that all the gutless ‘enablers’ in the Democratic Party should be equally exposed for their criminal negligence in the face of an Executive Branch gone mad!
September 4th, 2005 at 11:47 amI hope video becomes available, and I want to see it looped and looped and looped until the American public GETS IT and DEMANDS THAT RESPONSIBILITY IS TAKEN ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP.
Those horrible creatures that pretend to be our leaders should be removed for this. They should rot in whatever hell there may be.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:48 amGood God.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:48 amWhere are our gutless, witless and shameless trolls? This is a national emergency! Bush is drowning in a cesspool of his own shit! Who don’t they get off their lazy incompetent asses and apologize for Bush and blame the victims? Bush needs apologists now!
September 4th, 2005 at 11:53 amN.O. needs to convene Grand Jurys to investigate and indict Bush and his fellow criminals. Do it now and strike at the bastards.
Congress will not hold them guys accountable. They will be in the background of the Photo-Op of Bush giving his minions the Medal of Freedom.
Start the God Damn Grand Jurys. Indict them all and convict them.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:54 amI did see this segement and believe that talking heads like Russert need to be OFF the airwaves. Give the airtime to folks who know what’s happening.
The script writers at CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, have shown that they are uninformed and their false information is contributing to this crisis. Gross negligence.
WHO ordered trucks filled with drinking water to turn around? WHO ordered diesel supplies away from the city? WHO pulled the plug on the emergency communications? Each of these acts (described by Broussard) are ENEMY ACTS and should be treated as TREASON.
Start naming names.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:55 amGeorge is doing his part in the Orwellian world. He needs to have his ‘two minutes of hate’ too.
Bush bashing is so old. Older than Katrina news.
It is a nation in decline, good ol’ Murka has hit the skids.
A depression is here and it is now. Get used to it.
More to come. Frantic hysteria, untold loss of life.
Call it ‘Divine Retribution,’ or whatever. You don’t go invading countries for political and economic purposes and not have to pay a high price.
Have you ever spoken with a holocaust survivor? Somebody who actually rode in boxcars to a German concentration camp? When they get out of the boxcars, they scour the ground in gardens that were once there. “If only we had some potatoes, we’d be rich.”
Nine years old when she was in Auschwitz. She had it tough until 1955. The East German government finally let her leave.
You think you have it tough now here in the US. think again.
Empires don’t last and end violently. That is the way things now here in Murka.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:56 amI have seen over and over again ,Government apologists state that this disaster was unforeseeable. Is a massive terorist attack foreseeable?, and will they respond the same way? It looks like the answer to the last is yes.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:01 pmI just saw the broadcast, Corrryn, and I hope you will see it replayed over and over.
I’ve seen a few posts on this (there’s a thread on Harry Shearer’s blog on Huffington Post), and there is something missing from what I’ve read thus far.
In the segment preceding Russert’s conversation with Mr. Broussard, DHS secretary Michael Chertoff dodged some extremely piercing questions from Russert. Chertoff asserted that “many things have gone well,” and admitted that “a few things have not gone well.” A “few” things?
Before he broke down, Mr. Broussard told Tim Russert that Wal-Mart had sent ten tractor trailer loads of bottled water to New Orleans. FEMA officials sent them away, saying that they weren’t needed. Mr. Broussard was told that fuel was being trucked in for their use in holding the levees together. When Broussard’s people drove trucks to pick up the fuel, they were told that FEMA said they couldn’t have it.
It is difficult to avoid the feelings of anger, frustration, even hopelessness in this situation. However, I have found another strong emotion welling in myself–dread. If this is how the DHS responds to a natural disaster that was on the radar for DAYS before it happenned, one whose effects were predicted by YEARS of research, how will they respond if there is another attack on this country by al-Qaeda?
I just hope and pray that they (a-Q) are not planning something soon. An attack launched at this point would indeed make 9/11 appear like a warning shot.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:01 pmI saw it, and it moved me to tears. I fear for these people, who having physically survived, have to be in great danger of psychological breakdown, as it appears there is no end in sight to this disaster.
I don’t think the country can survive three more years of a Bush presidency, staffed by incompetent and unqualified cronies, none of whom know how to take responsibility for their failures.
Thanks to the billion-dollar restructuring of government, which has been revealed as little more than a new organizational chart, a restooling that was supposed to make us better prepared for another disaster, we have instead given the terrorists a front row seat to our vulnerabilites.
Way to go - Medals of Freedom all the way around! Promotion for Michael Brown!
Worst. President. Ever.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:05 pmBUSH IS A GREAT MAN! A MAN OF GOD! GOD CHOSE BUSH TO LEAD US OUT TO THE VALLEY OF DEARTH! GOD PUNISHED THE FILTY HEEFUNS IN HEW ORLEENS FOR THEIR SODOMES!
September 4th, 2005 at 12:08 pmIf Ron keeps straddling the fence this way, the next time he chooses which side to jump off onto, he just may catch his balls on some barbed wire.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:09 pmBetter stop criticising or the sky will fall.
Let’s not knock Bush, he is using FEMA to reduce the welfare rolls. The method is a bit harsh, but he’s getting results.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:11 pmI was castrated in the 1970’s when I lost my job with the US government and have never found another decent job since then. I have more or less had to fend for myself for over 33 years now. I know what it feels like to go hungry.
But, go ahead, say anything and all that you possibly can to injure my ego. It does make you feel better.
I will happily be ‘the least of the brethren’ here. Not a problem.
Feel for all of the displaced people of the Gulf Coast.
Help them and quit picking on an untermenschen like me. I’m used to it.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:15 pm>>>>
The script writers at CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, have shown that they are uninformed and their false information is contributing to this crisis. Gross negligence.
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Gee whiz, in all of this excitement, people (including the media) seem to have forgotten that there is still a very pretty blonde teenager missing in the Caribbean.
What’s up with that? Shouldn’t we be devoting a little air time to the search for Natalee, before we start making unkind remarks about President Bush and his administration?
Greta, Geraldo, all of ya…get back to your posts in Aruba!
September 4th, 2005 at 12:15 pmMy suggestion is to round up all of the Bushcovites in the administration, in Congress and in the media and lock them all up in the uncleaned Convention Center in NO indefinitely, without food, water, phones, electricity etc. And let the whole lot suffer the consequences. At least the rest of us will be rid of them, once and for all.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:16 pmNo one with a beating heart could have watched that interview on MTPress today and not cried. The administration may not have committed murder, but they sure have committed criminal manslaughter.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:22 pmSHOT UP YOU COMMIE BASTERD! tHIS RON GUY IS A COMMIE BASTERD! YOU OINKO COMMIE BASTERDS ARE LIBODEMOCOMMIES INDA SKIES!
September 4th, 2005 at 12:22 pmi saw this egment too and it moved all watching to tears…the raw emotions the heartfelt pleas, and this followed Russerts in-elegant attempt to place blame back ojn the NO Mayor and LA Governor….and was followed by the the Governor of Mississippi sprouting more Bush talking points…I only hope the truth will contiue to be exposed and those in this administration who are culpable will get their just “rewards”
September 4th, 2005 at 12:25 pmYOU ARE A COMMIE TOO! YOU ARE ALL PINKO COMMIE BASTURDS! ACLU COMMIES CARRYING YOUR CARDS.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:27 pmI didn’t see the interview but I can get the jist of it by reading your responses.
WHen FEMA denys help from those who can supply food and water to victims, isnt that just like pulling Terri’s feeding tube?
The difference between Terri and these victims is that these people are not braindead and have been denied nourishment and hydration, that is a crime.
The neocons cannot come out and say they werent diliberately starved when FEMA refused food and water from charitable people.
Grand Jury time.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:34 pmI just wish that the clip would have had more of the MS gov saying that THEY GOT EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED on MONDAY!!!
September 4th, 2005 at 12:38 pmBushco won’t be held accountable. They’re doing their jobs. This doesn’t happen in Murka, so it isn’t real at all. What is real is the reality that the neocons make. Nothing else counts. ‘We don’t do body counts’
No matter where anymore. Irak or Murka, it doesn’t matter.
FEEBLE FEMA has it all under control. Your help isn’t really needed.
It’s like the ‘Final Solution.’
New Orleans will become the ‘Shining City by the Sea’
Be good murkans and watch it all unfold. Don’t worry, be happy.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:46 pmThis piece made my sob along with this guest. I wanted to plunge through my tv and hug this man. This is a travisty.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:46 pmCatch the re-run tonight, Susan on MSNBC where MTP is rebroadcast. It will sadden you and infuriate you.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:47 pmWho will have the video of today’s MTP and when?
Thanks.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:47 pmBobby, what time will it be run on MSNBC?
Thanks.
September 4th, 2005 at 12:58 pmI was castrated in the 1970’s when I lost my job with the US government and have never found another decent job since then. I have more or less had to fend for myself for over 33 years now. I know what it feels like to go hungry.
But, go ahead, say anything and all that you possibly can to injure my ego. It does make you feel better.
I will happily be ‘the least of the brethren’ here. Not a problem.
Feel for all of the displaced people of the Gulf Coast.
Help them and quit picking on an untermenschen like me. I’m used to it.
Comment by Ron — September 4, 2005 @ 12:15 pm
So now YOU’RE “the least of the bretheren here”?
September 4th, 2005 at 1:00 pmEver had to work 90 hour weeks for less than $100.00 a week BECAUSE THERE WERE NO OTHER JOBS? EVER HAD TO SLEEP IN A DITCH OWNING NOTHING MORE THAN THE CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK? You sad, pampered little man, I could trump any sad story you have - but what’s the use? Your “least” comments betray a victimhood much deeper that your circumstances allow. Poor baby, at least I don’t consider my bad luck as giving me “street cred”.
PODCAST
September 4th, 2005 at 1:02 pmFor those of you who are interested, NBC podcasts the audio from Meet the Press”. You can get it free from the iTunes music store (of course you have to have iTunes 4.9 first, which is also free from apple.com)
What john-the-elder said!!!!
September 4th, 2005 at 1:04 pmHere is the link to the video clip on MNBC’s website showing Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard crying over the drowning of a state worker’s mother.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/
September 4th, 2005 at 1:05 pmChertoff said he didn’t know the situation was so bad because he read in Tuesday’s papers that New Orleans “dodged the bullet.”
So who can blame the poor guy? He looked the headlines, the headlines were wrong, he was surprised as any normal person would be that the newspapers didn’t carry correct information. Gosh, how can you blame a guy for reading the newspaper on a Tuesday morning?
September 4th, 2005 at 1:08 pmListen, this is nothing new - it is business as usual with this administration. All they care about is their cabal of choice - big business, the super rich, and the military-industrial complex. Now you have it played before your eyes on TV in living color.
The question that I have is this - how long are we going to let the wipe away the democratic landscape it too a hundred years to build? How long are we going to let them
September 4th, 2005 at 1:09 pmfinance a criminal war on our backs?
On the one hand we have a president who never reads the papers, and on the other the head of DHS who only reads the papers.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:11 pmDONT TAKE YOUR EYAES OFF THE OTHER HAND
September 4th, 2005 at 1:15 pmFEMA is a distraction to make us think they are trying to help. What the want is total disaster so that the Fed can take control, kick out the media, eliminate dissenters and then finally hand the city over to Halliburton. Why are they cutting the emergency communications? What information do they not want out of the city? Be very suspicious of anything these fuckwads are doing, it is always corrupt.
This administration should be tried for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. They kept food and water out and allowed people to die. Does any more need to be said?
September 4th, 2005 at 1:16 pmI can barely stop crying for these people and my country.
This in from a German news reporter in Biloxi during the President’s visit.
“Along his [Bush] travel route aid units removed debris and recovered corpses. Then Bush left and along with him, all aid troops left too. ”
So, US troops were basically pressed into service as “set designers” for Bush’s photo ops with Trent Lott and Haley Barber.
Words cannot express my disgust.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:19 pmYou will probably NOT see him on TV again, it was just too, too powerful, too blatant and too raw for the administration to respond to without looking like SOB’s. I was crying when this man finished his statement, and was very disappointed that Russert, instead of letting him speak further, switched to Haley Barbour(R), Gov.of MS, who bragged about what a good job the feds, Coast Guard, and National Guard had done in his state. Could that be BECAUSE of the political affiliation of Barbour, Trent Lott,and the other pols from MS?
September 4th, 2005 at 1:21 pmMichael Chertoff, the moron who has been all over TV justifying the egregious negligence of FEMA, was spinning the fault for the LA disaster as belonging at the feet of LOCAL LA DEMOCRATIC leaders (Gov. Blanco, Mayor Hagen.)I am already smelling this different state response as a very politically partisan difference. There is no way that Rove was going to let Bush send federal money and troops to rescue Democrats and voters who didn’t support him. I think this is called the “slo-mo” response…giving the Bush people some plausible deniablity for the failure, while getting the message out to other states very clearly. No one should underestimate the depth of depravity that Karl Rove will sink to in order to maintain right wing, State’s Rights party pre-eminence in government.
The segment was heartbreaking, all the more so since MTP had moments earlier aired Chertoff defending the absurd claim by Bush that no one anticipated the breaching of the levees. He argued that still as of Tuesday everybody thought NO had dodged a bullet. False. Reports came in Monday morning that pumps were failing and levees were being overtopped and breaching. Google August 29 and see for yourself. Lies, lies, lies. Criminal lies. When will it dawn on people that those in power who assume a mantle of moral authority along with raw power DO NOT serve the interests of the American people? When will America realize that we have already lost our democracy in the Bush era? Oh, and guess who has already received contracts for repair and reconstruction of military facilities in the area? Haliburton. Shameful.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:21 pmvotetoimpeach.org
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I am just waiting for Northeast Dilemma to show up and tell us the emergency communication lines had to be cut.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:26 pmHeartbreaking, just heartbreaking.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:27 pmGeorge W Bush is living proof of the validity of the Peter Principle. His level of competence was reached when he was a coke snorting drunk. Now he’s in over his head and we are all suffering for it, the people of the Gulf Coast most of all (at this moment - let’s not forget the kin of dead GIs and the people in Iraq.)
I personally feel that W stole both elections but whether he did or not … the people who voted for him voted for a brand name ( a similar phenomena has a Taft as Gov. of Ohio, a Daley as Mayor of Chicago and _God help us - a Schwarznager (sp?) as Gov. of California.
Not that voting for a recognizable name is a bad thing but … most village idiots are likable people (and well known) that doesn’t mean you want them in positions of power and responsibility.
I can hardly wait for1/20/09.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:30 pmAirplanes being tracked on radar making U turn detours from their flight plans and flying into buildings. No one could have anticipated this.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:33 pmNo one could have anticipated that ther would be no WMD’s in Iraq, No one could have anticipated that the levies would be breeched…hmmmm…is there a patternn emerging here….and why has bush and company not been required to testify as to the treasons….I mean reasons for these nonanticipations….just furious….I mean curious
FEMA cut emergency communication lines
I may be straying into tinfoil hat territory here, but I’m starting to wonder if FEMA was given directions to reduce the impact on neighboring areas by killing as many New Orleans citizens as they thought they could politically get away with.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:33 pmThey cut…
The entire Congress must be held accountable for letting the dictator/tyrants of Bush, Cheney, Rumsefeld and Rice to run this government into Fascism…all for business NONE for the average citizen except war and taxes
September 4th, 2005 at 1:34 pmI just tried to watch the vid of the parish pres..the vid is overwhelmed with hits…good..I hope they play it over and over. Right now I’m just to choked up to comment. Can’t see the screen thru these tears.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:35 pmThis is truly a day; if not week, in America which will affect and change us all as Americans. “We the People” rings true.
We will come together.
We shall overcome.
We will take our America back.
We will take it back for the impoverished and weak.
We as Americans have no other choice.
We all feel the pain of our New Orleans and Mississippi brothers and sisters.
We will never forget.
We will never quit.
We are.
We are Americans.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:37 pm[…] More quotes from the interview, detailing how FEMA actively worsened their situation and accusing the federal goverment of murder can be found here. […]
September 4th, 2005 at 1:42 pmOn the positive side, look at all the jobs Bush is going to create cleaning up this mess—not to mention the building, energy and contruction companies in the stock market.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:52 pmTry this site, it shows W’s deep concern or the people of MS and LA:
September 4th, 2005 at 1:55 pmhttp://thanksalot.ytmnd.com/
[…] Thinkprogress USSERT: You just heard the director of homeland security’s explanation of what has happened this last week. What is your reaction? […]
September 4th, 2005 at 2:00 pm“Broussard: ‘We have been abandoned by our own co
This is what Junior’s administration’s failure is all about.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:00 pmHow could FEMA move in and do affirmative damage? How could they turn away aid (water) when they haven’t provided any? Who cares if there is extra water hanging around? It’ll be needed later. When FEMA promises that someone is coming, it prevents or discourages others from coming. Why would they cut communications lines? I believe this man, and it doesn’t make sense.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:02 pmI just watched the video clip of Mr. Broussard on MSNBC. It’s heart wrenching. The clip didn’t include the part about the problems he’s had with FEMA, though.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:11 pmOur brothers and sisters in NO died because they are poor … and being poor and black in the United States never has been a lucky combination.
I’m not angry … what I’m feeling now is waaaaay beyond anger.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:14 pm[…] BROUSSARD: We have been abandoned by our own country. Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst storms ever to hit an American coast. But the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history. … Whoever is at the top of this totem pole, that totem pole needs to be chainsawed off and we’ve got to start with some new leadership. It’s not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now. […]
September 4th, 2005 at 2:15 pmSusan,
September 4th, 2005 at 2:16 pmI’ve been watching coverage all week and believe me Mississippi is not getting the help it needs. Anderson Cooper was in Mississippi actually crying on televsion on Thursay or Friday. Cooper was complaining that there were bodies in the streets being eaten by rats and that these people had not seen any federal authorities. There was no water or food or fuel. Other stories focused on shelters in Mississippi where residents had to help each other. Barbour is mistaken as well as complicit in the cover-up.
Oh god, listening to Meet the Press on Podcast and hearing about the water being refused and the cut lines and refusing fuel to these people.
What on earth are people coming to when the government *denies* water to people who are slowly dying, help to people who are drowning.
Why the hell shouldn’t we be pissed about it and who is Cheroff to tell us to stop because it’s distracting! Distracting!
I don’t think I’ve ever cried so hard in my life as I have listening to Broussard.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:18 pmI did see a brief replay of the video clip on CNN and was overwhelmed, not just with saddness but with a feeling of totally hopelessness. As a middle aged mom in the midwest I’ve grow tired of wringing my hands and praying we will survive this incompetent president and his cronies. I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE. BUSH MUST BE IMPEACHED NOW!
September 4th, 2005 at 2:28 pmTim Russert was awful. Why doesn’t he just admit he’s a mouthpiece for the liberal Democrats? Does anyone really think this will help the left? Not when a debate is had.
Democrats can NEVER be trusted to handle these types of situations. Mayor NO and Gov Blanco will be destroyed.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:36 pmI just saw this. I just saw it replayed. After watching that, I burst into tears. This is the most appalling thing to happen to our own citizens in four years. And this time, the immense loss of life and sense of panic are directly the responsibility of our government’s lack of preparation. I’ve never been so angry at our government, and I’ve disapproved of it since early 2001. This is ridiculous.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:37 pmListen up you uninformed christians start useing your brains along with your Bible!!!
September 4th, 2005 at 2:39 pmJust because someone claims to be a christian does not make him one. Bush and his cronies have to be judged by their actions. Have you christians ever read about how the anti Christ will fool the masses into following him. You better get reading before it is to late. There is a reason there is suppose to be a division of Church and state it is proven by the mess caused by the last two elections. A christian would not start a war, a christian would not favor only the wealthy, a christian would show compassion to people starving and thirsty no matter what color or voting district they came from. Bush is an opertunist not a christian. I hope the next election will be about intelligence and integridy not religion because our country is going to Hell. I am a christian, George is a disgrace as a president and man. I hope they start impeachment proceedings his presidency has cost to many lives. 9/11 - the war- now hurricane Katrina.
We could never survive a terrist attack with these morons in charge. Rudy got us through 9/11 not George. Lets hope some one gives us an accurate death count from Katrina caused from incompidence and those to the death count of the war.
I can see it: the water being turned away, hording the diesel, cutting communication lines that aren’t “official Homeland Security/FEMA” communications lines.
It’s just so typical of this administration. In short, it’s the Bush regime against every other government in the world, it’s the Bush regime against the American people. Total paranoid control from a small circle of approved officials. From that foundation, they can never accomplish the decent thing even if they have half a mind to do so.
And half my mind tells me they decided to take their chances and not spend a penny beforehand. (Have you seen the link to the October >2001
September 4th, 2005 at 2:40 pmGood God CNN just replayed that clip. I was walking past the living room TV and just stood there dumbfounded, watching this man sob and plead for help. This is worlds beyond incompetence.
The only question really is - when will Bush be handing out the medals and promotions.
EFFING. NIGHTMARE.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:41 pmhttp://www.americaswetland.com/ article.cfm?id=241&cateid=2&pageid=3&cid=16
Broussard was a prophet (scroll down):
Parishes Against Coastal Erosion (PACE) Response to the Bush Administration’s June 14, 2005 Policy Statement on the Proposed Energy Act of 2005
By Parishes Against Coastal Erosion
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, NOAA and other federal and state agencies along with university experts agree that nowhere in the world is a coastal region losing wetlands and protective barrier islands faster than Louisiana. About this there is no doubt. It is predicted that by 2050, one third of coastal Louisiana will have vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. Our coast and its wetlands is a system on the verge of collapse. Without wetlands to buffer storms, our people and property and the nation’s energy supply are at risk. Oil and gas pipelines and facilities, which provide 25% of the Nation’s energy needs, are more vulnerable with each storm. Oil and gas activities and federal actions to control the Mississippi River for navigation and flood control are largely responsible for the drastic loss of our coastal. PACE believes we are completely within our right to ask the federal government to share money generated from offshore oil and gas revenues with the coastal states that bear a disproportionate burden in supporting this nation’s energy needs.
Louisiana’s congressional delegation has urged Congress for more than a decade to return to the state a fair share of the revenue from the production of offshore oil and gas both because of the impact of offshore production on Louisiana and because interior states get 50% of revenues from oil and gas production on federal lands.
The president has supported the concept, but has backed off when it comes to funding the restoration effort. PACE believes Louisiana can no longer afford to wait. Louisiana urgently needs guaranteed resources to thwart a catastrophe that is not being given the sense of urgency that it demands.
We believe the case has been made. Louisiana’s wetlands - America’s WETLAND - is crucial to the nations oil and gas production, commercial fisheries, navigation and commerce and national security. Restoring the damage hastened by years of inland and offshore drilling is clearly a national responsibility.
The President, in this Policy Statement, has failed us. To sidestep this as a key issue would be a serious deficiency, in the Energy Bill, and the entire nation will suffer as a consequence.
Our Louisiana legislature this month passed a constitutional amendment requiring any new offshore oil and gas revenue to be put in a trust fund dedicated to coastal erosion.
Louisiana has made a commitment. Now, it’s time for the President to step up to the plate and support funding to prevent the untold damage to the ecology, economy and potential loss of life in large numbers.
With the National Hurricane Center predicting another active hurricane season, PACE President Aaron Broussard said he fears that it is going to take a major storm and significant loss of life before the nation acts responsibly.
The PACE organization’s frustration with the Administration’s Statement was reflected in St. Bernard Parish President, Henry “Junior” Rodriguez’s comment that “Louisiana contributes much to this Nations energy needs. It’s time we take a hard look at our alternatives and consider whether we want to keep up this level of oil and gas production. ”
If you have any questions, please contact Jefferson Parish President and PACE President, Aaron Broussard at (504) 736-6400.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:42 pmI do hope that this was not deliberate. It is so horrible to even contemplate. But how can we explain FEMA turning away bottled water and gasoline?
This is incomprehensible.
Let the Light shine and reveal the truth of this event.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:43 pmSome 61,000,000 million people, including a goodly numbner of Louisiana residents voted for, or perhaps better, hornswoggled, into voting for George W. Bush.
We warned people that this man Bush was incompetant, and that Bush despised the public at large. That his idea of conservatism was on par with Louis the 14th’s ideas “Etat c’est moi.”
For our trouble we were called traitors, America haters, fag lovers, irreligious, friends of either Osama or Saddam, or both, unmindful of Islamofascism, forgetful of 9/11, or just plain crazy, stupid, insane, and who the hell knows what all.
Well behold your Bush in action there now.
We told you so!
Please support an effort to get this incompetant President removed from office before more die needlessly from failure at the top.
Sal Marelli, aka, boilerman10
September 4th, 2005 at 2:44 pmSal - probably not. The same people that were foaming at the mouth last year are the ones doing it today. You won’t gain politically from this. Hate never wins elections.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:52 pm“Hate never wins elections”
I don’t know if you’re just immensely naive or chose your words poorly. Last years national elections were won in large part by hatred towards and fear-mongering of homosexuals by making gay marraige a central issue, in the midst of wars, economic uncertianty and countless other ACTUAL problems we face. Hell look at any smear campaign ever and you’ll see that hate obviously is a very strong motivating factor to get people off their butts and in a voting booth.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:58 pmNico,
You forgot the last half of this story. Gov. Haley Barber of Mississippi was up next, He wnt on to tell how they had been delivered water and meals and felt the federal response was excellent. I have to ask the question since Russert didn’t, was the exellent response in Mississippi due to the fact the Barber was once the Chair of the RNC and the fact that Trent Lott was from this area? If so, then we again see the help the few while many suffer mentality. You also can’t help but notice that the majority from Gulfport MS are white while the opposite is true for New Orleans.
It is shameful, this is not the government for all but for the select. I can only hope that the democrats in congress get off their ass when they return next week and press the obvious hard.
September 4th, 2005 at 2:59 pmSouter, hate won Bush’s elections.
Of course you have to tell your opponents that it does not, so they won’t try to beat you at your own game.
Those deaths are on your hands. We will not let you forget it.
Look who Bush appointed to run FEMA. A guy who couldn’t manage a Big Mac Attack. FEMA was gutted, and disaster preparedness programs were slashed. Homeland Security failed its first big test. Feel confident? Bush is a no-good no-account who chooses loyalty over competence, probably because he knows nothing about competence.
Clinton’s FEMA director is on the scene to save the day. Thank God for that.
September 4th, 2005 at 3:00 pmBush did not win on hate. Many people oppose gay marriage and don’t hate gays. Of course, that is a concept the left has simply been unable to grasp.
The hatred in the media, in the lefty blogs and within the Democratic Party, is being noted and trust me - it is not good. You people are begging for another ass kickin at the polls and I think you’ll get it.
September 4th, 2005 at 3:04 pmA whisper campaign spreading rumors of lesbianism of the Texas governor Ann Richards.
A constitutional amendment to save marriage from the hated homosexuals.
Christianity is under attack!
Liberals want to ban prayer!
Maybe it’s not hate, maybe it’s fear that Bush uses to win elections.
September 4th, 2005 at 3:04 pmSouter, drop the ad hominem and explain who Bush appointed to head FEMA.
September 4th, 2005 at 3:05 pm“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality” Dante (1265-13210
It’s time to pick sides and fight like hell!!!! Remove and replace the incompetent leadership of this administration in ALL corners of government - congressional, executive, and the judiciary!!!
September 4th, 2005 at 3:09 pmAnd when are these Bush supporters going to start judging Bush by his results?
Gay marriage — legal and spreading.
Emergency response — we’re all screwed, I hope you have a month’s supply of drinking water locked away somewhere safe, and some firearms to defend it.
Fiscal sanity - ha!
War on terror - going just great I’m sure. We’re killing lots of people, that’s got to help us. And bin Laden who?
America’s standing in the world - we went from being a beacon of hope to an object of hate and sorrow.
Morals - do you think we are a more moral society now?
No child left behind - hey test scores are up slightly this year. Hooray.
September 4th, 2005 at 3:11 pmDon’t let these bastards off the hook for anything. Fight like hell. Don’t listen to this “we need a loyal opposition” or “stand with the president” or “we’re one nation”
too little too late, like the mass grave that was New Orleans, now called Lake George.
If they wanted a loyal opposition, they would have made compromise a policy. No, what they wanted was to wipe out the opposition altogether. If I were them, I’d be scared as hell.
September 4th, 2005 at 3:13 pmIf guys like Steven Souter think this debacle will blow over like a typical scandal or F-up, they are completely in denial. If they think this is the sort of thing that can be quieted down, they are simply insane.
Wait until the first actual body count comes in. Wait until we see how many american citizens lost their lives, and then we’ll see who pays what price at the polls.
September 4th, 2005 at 3:19 pmI would like to thank Aaron Broussard for his heroism. We all should, really. What is the best way to reach him at this time?
September 4th, 2005 at 3:25 pmWell, perhaps now we will emerge from the long darkness.
September 4th, 2005 at 3:42 pmHow much misery and blood is required for people to see?
A change must, finally, come.
I also saw the show this morning. One question I have is this. It is bad enough to insist that rescue efforts were not being undertaken because ” we didn’t know how bad it was” until days later than any American with a TV set knew, but what was the excuse for not allowing water and fuel to go through, or to cut off emergency communications. That, in my opinion, is imoral and quite possibly, criminal. I hope there are others in power that see it this way. Mr Brown and Mr chertoff will probably get a medal of freedom and some low schlump will be blamed. God Bless America.
September 4th, 2005 at 4:31 pmJust curious if everyone thinks someone like Kerry would have done a better job..
September 4th, 2005 at 4:40 pmMaxwell Smart would have done a better job.
September 4th, 2005 at 4:43 pmAlso Mr. McGoo. He had more insight then W.
September 4th, 2005 at 4:46 pmBut then George of the Jungle is good at clearing brush, and doesn’t need a chain saw.
September 4th, 2005 at 4:48 pmI actually just saw this video - shameless.
Mary Landrieu also threatened to punch Bush on ABC. A new ABC poll shows public divided on govt handling of issue - this one is going to backfire on the left. Your (and Tim Russert’s) hatred is simply not normal.
September 4th, 2005 at 4:58 pmThis is not incompetence. It is not crtiminal negligence. this is a deliberate sacrifice of innocent people to the Lord of Darkness, the Father of Murder, the Father of Lies, Satan.
There are ceremonies of Evil as well as Good.
How else can you describe this? Help is available, the good old USA generousity and ‘can do’ and what??????
Since Amerikkka is so hard to pronounce, and GeheimenStaat is in German, in conversation I will simply be refering to ‘The Country Formerly Known as the USA’
Forces of Light, Unite!
September 4th, 2005 at 5:01 pmKhut Mau
[…] One from crooksandliars. here Here is a quote from Think Progress I want to give you one last story and I’ll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The guy who runs this building I’m in, Emergency Management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?†and he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you.†Somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday… and she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night! [Sobbing] Nobody’s coming to get us. Nobody’s coming to get us. The Secretary has promised. Everybody’s promised. They’ve had press conferences. I’m sick of the press conferences. For god’s sakes, just shut up and send us somebody. […]
September 4th, 2005 at 5:01 pmSouter, if a week’s delay in FEMA response, costing thousands of American lives somehow backfires on the left, then Karl Rove should get a medal of freedom.
September 4th, 2005 at 5:03 pm“You forgot the last half of this story. Gov. Haley Barber of Mississippi was up next, He wnt on to tell how they had been delivered water and meals and felt the federal response was excellent. I have to ask the question since Russert didn’t, was the exellent response in Mississippi due to the fact the Barber was once the Chair of the RNC and the fact that Trent Lott was from this area? If so, then we again see the help the few while many suffer mentality. You also can’t help but notice that the majority from Gulfport MS are white while the opposite is true for New Orleans.
It is shameful, this is not the government for all but for the select. I can only hope that the democrats in congress get off their ass when they return next week and press the obvious hard.”
This to me is utter bullspit. I think that Missippi is better prepared for this type of disaster - simply because they have lived and rebuilt from them many more times than NO. Let’s face facts here folks. NO and the State of Louisanna just aren’t prepared enough to deal with this type of emergency. Does the Federal government have to protect everyone from their own stupidity?
September 4th, 2005 at 5:06 pmRe: 87 by Judy
September 4th, 2005 at 5:08 pmHas anyone, male or female, had a spouse who said “I want to do it myself, dear.”? That in a nutshell is FEMA’s position. When a tornado struck in northern downtown Dallas in the mid 50’s Sears was the first first responder with relief supplies from its warehouse. Fed help arrived in about a day, but the help from business sector was there in an instant.
Sal Morelli - perhaps more appropriate would be Louis XV’s expression, ‘Apres moi, le deluge’ - or in Bushspeak ‘Avec moi, le deluge’.
September 4th, 2005 at 5:11 pmSteven Souter - you made me laugh, honestly! And this has been a time when we could all use a good laugh. On the inhale, you declaim that Bush and the right didn’t ‘win on hate’ and that the conservative tolerance ‘is a concept the left has simply been unable to grasp’ And on the exhale you declare
‘You people (meaning us lefty liberals)are begging for another ass kickin at the polls and I think you’ll get it’. Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! You couldn’t get a better example of Bushthink if you made it up! Thank you for such a shining example of the kind of nutzoid mentality that got us Bush and into this mess in the first place! Thank you ever so much!
Comment by Steven Souter — September 4, 2005 @ 3:04 pm
September 4th, 2005 at 5:21 pmYou’re looking for a speck in my eye, dano347. You should be harnessing a twenty-mule team to pull the log from George Bush’s eye.
This is a sad ordeal for America.
It is traumatizing us all.
We should all know by now how the Iraqis have been feeling for the last 15 years.
In 1980 I had an income of 1000 dollars. A full twenty bucks per week.
I don’t need any lecturing on how poor somebody can get.
My grandmother never had a flush toilet.
Ad hominem never helps.
But, of course, feel free to say anything you want about me or anybody else. It’s called free speech.
Have a nice day.
September 4th, 2005 at 5:27 pmThe dead might not rest, but the living are homeless - beware that they do not use their free time to MARCH ON WASHINGTON.
September 4th, 2005 at 5:36 pmWe have chosen a class society out of greed and hypocritically claim to be religious. No Capitalist state can ever be ethically acceptable. Higher classes always exploit those benieth them. It is inevitable. Our institutions (some supposedly educational) only make us more vulnerable to the exploitation. Many people in New Orleans were neglected. They were NOT wealthy people!
September 4th, 2005 at 5:43 pmI too, saw Parish President Broussard sobbing and crying and my heart went out to him and his constituents - who no doubt trust him. I wonder if he was feeling badly being the Parish President (a job of some local importance) knowing that the levees had the capacity to withstand a Cat 3 storm - and knowing nothing had been done in sometime to strengthen that system. Just remember, to be a devoted whiner and progressive, one must ALWAYS blame Bush for EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE - AT -ALL -TIMES!!!
September 4th, 2005 at 5:46 pmProshchay!
September 4th, 2005 at 5:53 pm#102 - - “We have chosen a class society out of greed and hypocritically claim to be religious. No Capitalist state can ever be ethically acceptable. Higher classes always exploit those benieth them. It is inevitable. Our institutions (some supposedly educational) only make us more vulnerable to the exploitation.”
Nice synopsis of the Communist Manifesto - I didn’t think you were trying to pass that off as an original thought. (Please tell me you’re in college and your parents are NOT wasting their capitalistic $$$ sending you!! It amazing how much better grades college students get when spending their own evil dollars.)
September 4th, 2005 at 5:54 pmThey made a serious mistake messing with Harry Lee. He doesn’t take any crap from anybody, and he acts decisively and immediately. I don’t approve of a lot of things that he has done, but credit where credit is due. He’s paid for an awful lot of sins.
September 4th, 2005 at 6:03 pmCORRRECTION
Earlier today on this blog, I posted that Walmart had dispatched 10 tractor trailer loads of water to New Orleans.
After reviewing Russert’s interview with Broussard, I discovered the number of trucks, according to Broussard, was actually three.
I posted earlier having only just seen the broadcast live, and I apologize for the error.
However, FEMA did in fact turn away those three WalMart trucks
September 4th, 2005 at 6:11 pm#102 - Nice synopsis of the Communist Manifesto - I didn’t think you were trying to pass that off as an original thought. (Please tell me you’re in college and your parents are NOT wasting their capitalistic $$$ sending you!! It amazing how much better grades college students get when spending their own evil dollars.)
September 4th, 2005 at 6:25 pmWhat is Wrong With Our Leaders?
We have moved from incompetence, to gross incomptetence to outright criminal neglect
September 4th, 2005 at 6:41 pmMighty A,
Durwood Nails (whom you’ve code-named #102) does raise some valid points. There is, most certainly a class and race dynamic to what transpired this week in New Orleans. Whether or not it is a thoroughgoing indictment of capitalism is debatable, as I think you were trying to point out.
Durwood, please remember that it was none other than Wal-Mart that sent trucks of water to New Orleans, and our own government that turned them away. As I see it, this doesn’t give Wal-Mart a pass on the scores and scores of labor abuses they’ve committed over the years, it does muddy the discussion a bit. I think there are a lot of topic areas that are better suited to making your argument than this one.
Mighty A, I think you kind of put words in Durwood’s keyboard, so to speak, when you assumed he was claiming original thought. Agree with him or not, his raising of the issue and the way he expressed it was new within this discussion thread. Truly, the fact is that there really is no such thing as a completely original thought. Even Shakespeare based nearly everything he wrote on some earlier myth, story or episode in history.
I’ve recently posted to a number of blogs where the participants foment a horrid amount of personal attacks. Given what has happened this week, let’s please not allow that to happen here any more than it has already.
September 4th, 2005 at 6:48 pmWhat more proof do people need that the govt is run by nazis. What will it take to wake up?
Nazis smile and wear expensive suits and talk about God.
The next urban renewal project ala hitler and global warming coming to a city near you. Be prepared
September 4th, 2005 at 6:56 pm“Higher classes always exploit those benieth them. It is inevitable. ” MIghty Aphrodite
Nice nazi bullshit about inevitability.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:00 pmMighty Aphrodite
What is inevitable is that scum like you will be exposed
and
the people unitec CAN never be defeated
September 4th, 2005 at 7:01 pmThe people united against nazi scum CAN never be defeated
September 4th, 2005 at 7:03 pmMighty aphrodite, I was wondering when you would show up today and help me hold up the “right” side here (hehe, pun intended). I like the Communist Manifesto thing in #108—reminds me of the old days and the way the rightwing applied it to liberals then, like calling them commie bastards, etc.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I bet you remember the good old days when we said “better dead than red” and “kill a commie for mommie” huh? Guess thats why I became a redneck republican—cause I didn’t want to be a commie.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:05 pmThere’s no difference between nazis and commies - they are the same people fighting over the same billion dollar boondoggle, and they go by the names of Halliburton, Bush, Arbusto, Aramco - they’re white, they’re aholes and they will lie about how they didn’t know that there were people in the convention center, while you and your children die
September 4th, 2005 at 7:09 pmHere’s more nazi-commie-capatilist war mongering criminals - Averill Harriman, Prescott Bush, Pinochet, Blair, Cheney
September 4th, 2005 at 7:11 pmANother nazi-capitalist-communist warmonger -
Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush’s business partner
How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
September 4th, 2005 at 7:14 pmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/ usa/ story/ 0,12271,1312540,00.html
Prescott Bush managing partner of the Silesian Mining Company, POland, later part of Aushwitz
September 4th, 2005 at 7:15 pm“..has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.”
Mighty Aphrodite, Ron, NED, and all the rest of you f”king fascists, read it -
Bush family and slave labor at Aushwitz
September 4th, 2005 at 7:17 pmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/ usa/ story/ 0,12271,1312540,00.html
What do YOU have to say Mighty Aphrodite about hte great hero Bush, or you NED, or ROn
READ THIS READ THIS READ THIS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ usa/ story/ 0,12271,1312540,00.html
OR maybe you don’t care. Maybe you go down for big bucks on the RNC closeted gays who pander to the fascist right-wing by keeping gay life illegal
September 4th, 2005 at 7:20 pmcmw, good entry at #120. Good luck getting it read outside of this blog. History is dead in this country.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:21 pmHank
September 4th, 2005 at 7:23 pmI want to see these puke for brains fascists say something about their fuehrer
Disgusting accusation. IRT supposed turning away of fuel and water by FEMA per Mr Broussard before the havock. If we compare this to what ACTUALLY happened to Terry Schiavo then it should make both sides more conscious of the how precious life is and the need to protect life. Terry was no more Brain dead than those who chose to stay in NO. Blame lies with the local officials and citizens who had the means to leave. Have you seen the fleet of school buses parked in a sea of water? Even Terry would have understood the need to evacuate and the utility of those buses.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:31 pmTo compare a medially brain dead human to the thousands who were tortured in NO by the neglect and indifference of the nazi regime controlling the US govt is just utter stupidity.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:35 pmEdge, where did you get your information from on Terri Schaivo, from Senator/Dr. Fristenstien? Or Dr. Jeb?
September 4th, 2005 at 7:39 pmLife is precious all right, just ask Junior Bush how precious it is. Riding his bike in Crawford while people are dieing in Iraq, eating cake in Arizona while people were drowning in New Orleans. The only reason the Bush brothers cared about Schaivo is because they thought it could score some points with the Pat Robertson crowd. When they saw it backfire in the polls, Junior hurried his ass out of dodge on a few fundraisers and Jeb stumbled around Florida looking for a way to let go of the tar baby. Hell, even Ham Hannity got the hell away from her when he saw which way the wind was blowing.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:46 pm#32 the rerun of the Meet the Press show this morning is on MSNBC at 9pm in the Chicago area.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:46 pmthe Bush boys would hump a dead corpse if they thought it would get them some right wing votes
September 4th, 2005 at 7:47 pmHigh 5’s, cmw, you got that right.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:49 pmHank
we’ve got to call em as we see em now
the gloves have come off in no
September 4th, 2005 at 7:51 pmthe bush nazi clique has let its mask slip a bit and we can see the naked truth
#67 Well said — words to that effect should be preached from every pulpit in America every Sunday until we remove this anti-Christ from office.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:52 pmAnd I am not a religious person — but I know most people are and many of them blindly voted for this evil man.
#72, boilerman
September 4th, 2005 at 7:58 pmI don’t like to be an I-told-you-so but you’re right, dammit! We did try to tell them and we were shouted down! I don’t want them to be humiliated, I just want them now to hlep us get rid of the man and his cabal ASAP.
The MIghty Ahole is silent -
can’t take the truth
September 4th, 2005 at 8:00 pm#73 How can you say Hate never wins elections — hate is exactly what wins elections! Rove runs his campaigns based on hatred, blatant or latent, of the voters.
September 4th, 2005 at 8:01 pm#80 Right on! Tuesday we must begin contacting our representatives and senators and demand that they no longer remain quiet — we want them to stand up and defend the people of America because the Bush adminstration is out to destroy us, one city at a time.
September 4th, 2005 at 8:05 pm“Evil flourishes when good men remain silent.”
September 4th, 2005 at 8:10 pmAuthor unknown.
(but it sounds like a version of Dante)
there were thousands of buses and a ferry they could have used. THEY ARE STUPID BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
September 4th, 2005 at 8:10 pmFran
September 4th, 2005 at 8:12 pmYes the BUsh regime is full of stupid bastards. YOu are soooo right.
that ferry was at the most a couple of blocks from the convention center and the quarter!
September 4th, 2005 at 8:14 pmThere is a hate-filled, venomous post here from someone named aphrodite — I think we should ignore it and maybe it will slither away.
September 4th, 2005 at 8:15 pmi’m really sorry americans have to discover in such an awful way that their ‘leaders’ are so corrupt, inept, uncompassionate, as to abandon their own people like this.
THIS IS WORSE THAN 9-11
September 4th, 2005 at 8:16 pmprobably a neo-con lol
September 4th, 2005 at 8:17 pmMarie
Mighty Ahole is one of Bush’s devil spawn
September 4th, 2005 at 8:25 pmFran
That Ferry
What Ferry
What the hell are you talking about
September 4th, 2005 at 8:36 pmSure, If Bush put $4 Billion a day for New Orleans for the next year.
September 4th, 2005 at 8:46 pmHe could RE-build New Orleans, NOT Iraq.
Could he? Will he do it? or he love the stroy of rebuliding Iraq! Iraqi are in theire homes Mr. President. New Orleansian are in Hotels, and Shelters ans streets.
Bush had to destroy NO to save it.
September 4th, 2005 at 8:48 pmI disagree with GW - New Orlean should not be rebuilt! Anyone who chooses to live below sea level has a serious deficiency in logic. Anyone who doesn’t evacuate for an impending Cat-4/5 is just plain stupid. Save the incompetents- but don’t rebuild that cesspool. The mayor of NO and Governor of LA should be jailed and the gov’t should bill the city and state for the thousands of rescues. Rescues are understandable, but this is beyond reason.
September 4th, 2005 at 8:55 pmI do not believe the bush government did this deliberately. It is however criminal incompetence at work, and heads should roll over this.
September 4th, 2005 at 9:13 pmhe’ll rebuild with no bid contracts doled out to his buds, believe it!
September 4th, 2005 at 9:28 pmIt’s happened, and, frankly, it’s disgusting to me.
I don’t even know where to begin, but the partisan bickering, namecalling, and verbal bludgeoning is destroying all faith I have in humanity and any hope I have for true democracy in this country.
CMW, I share your deep disagreement with the Bush Administration, but do you really think that the truly hateful comments you’ve made here will really help sway anyone’s opinion? Moreover, do you really believe this is the best way to represent others who share your opinion of the current administration? I share your frustration, but some of your statements are truly horrid. I’m finding out that conservatives do not hold a corner on the market for “hate speech” in the Blogosphere.
By the same token, Edge, your comments comparing those who did not evaucate New Orleans to Terry Schiavo and suggesting they are “brain dead” communicates such a profound ignorance and lack of compassion, I cannot even begin to plumb its depths. The last census showed that there were 100.000 households in New Orleans who relied soley on public transportation. How exactly are the poor, the disabled and the elderly supposed to evacuate themselves when they do not have the means to do so? Yes, there were the die-hards, the stubborn ones who chose to stay, but these are a small minority of the people who were and still are stranded in the city.
As for Aaron Broussard and FEMA . . . If you listen to the first part of his interview with Russert, you will clearly hear him say that FEMA’s problems are not internal, that they come from above through a lack of sufficient funding and authority to do the job it was created to do. FEMA used to be a cabinet level department, until this President. Broussard’s indictment is not of FEMA, DHS, or any other specific entity within the Federal government. He clearly states that the problem is “bureaucracy”–the government’s inability to coordinate a response to any situation without clearing it through the proper channels.
On both sides of the political aisle we can call names and point fingers all we want, but that won’t save one damn life in the Gulf Coast region. More frighteningly, it won’t do anything to fix this undeniably horrendous problem before this country is faced with another attack from al-Qaeda.
We need meaningful, respectful dialogue, not name-calling and territorial pissing.
September 4th, 2005 at 9:46 pmAnyone who works in tall buildings is crazy. Those who fly are just asking for it. People who stand on oil have got it coming and should know better. Only the foolish would work in a five sided building. Let us apply that logic all around.
September 4th, 2005 at 9:53 pmOh yeah, and let us get rid of FEMA all together. Regional disaster responsiblity should be a local thing.
to #148
September 4th, 2005 at 9:56 pmWhen the mayor of NO took his oath as mayor, he became repsonsible for those 100,000 requiring transportation. The transportation was there- Look at all the FLEET of school buses he left behind that are sitting submerged. Its a horrible lesson to learn from isn’t it?
September 4th, 2005 at 10:00 pmagain I say, the buses were there to get the job done but those in charge were unable to think outside the box when it comes to problem solving
September 4th, 2005 at 10:00 pmIt’s the fault of the victims in New Orleans that they didn’t get help.
I went thru the eye of Hurricane Charlie here in Port Charlotte, Florida and lost my house and everything. The very next day President Bush was here getting his picture taken with us.
Either President Bush or his brother were here every day till the news of the hurricane died down about two months later. After all Hurrican Charlie hit two months before Bush’s re-election.
Thos victims in New Orleans should’ve had their hurricane hit durring an election year, like we did. If it was an election year President Bush would’ve been there the same day hugging babies, pretending to care.
Did you victims really expect help with no election or way for Bush to profit?
Since you had nothing to offer President Bush the day after your hurricane hit President Bush went to a big party in California. After all he was on vacation.
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