Got this from an email



In case you aren't familiar with how our government is SUPPOSED to work ... the chain of responsibility for the protection of the citizens in New Orleans is:

1. The Mayor
2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security (a political appointee
of the Governor who reports to the Governor)
3. The Governor
4. The Head of Homeland Security
5. The President

What did each do?

1. The mayor, with 5 days advance, waited until 2 days before he announced a mandatory evacuation (at the behest of the President).  Then he failed to provide transportation for those without transport even though he had hundreds of buses at his disposal.

2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security failed to have any plan for a contingency that has been talked about for 50 years.  Then he blames the Feds for not doing what he should have done.  (So much for political appointees)

3. The Governor, despite a declaration of disaster by the President 2 DAYS BEFORE the storm hit, failed to take advantage of the offer of Federal troops and aid until 2 DAYS AFTER the storm hit.

4. The Director of Homeland Security positioned assets in the area to be ready when the Governor called for them.

5. The President urged a mandatory evacuation, and even declared a disaster State of Emergency, freeing up millions of dollars of federal assistance, should the Governor decide to use it.

Oh and by the way, the levees that broke? They were the responsibility of the local landowners and the local levee board to maintain, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

The disaster in New Orleans is what you get after decades of corrupt (democrat) government going all the way back to Huey Long.

Funds for disaster protection and relief have been flowing into this city for decades, and where has it gone, but into the pockets of the politicos and their friends.

Decades of socialist government in New Orleans has sapped all self reliance from the community, and made them dependent upon government for every little thing.

Political correctness and a lack of will to fight crime have created the single most corrupt police force in the country, and has permitted gang violence to flourish.

The sad thing is that there are many poor folks who have suffered and died needlessly because those that they voted into office failed them.

For those who missed item 5 (where the President's level of accountability is discussed), it is made more clear in a New Orleans Times-Picayune article dated August 28:

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the face of a catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, a mandatory evacuation was ordered Sunday for New Orleans by Mayor Ray Nagin.

Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort for people to go, including the Superdome.

The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already cancelled all flights.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.

The ball was placed in Mayor Nagin's court to carry out the evacuation order. With a 5-day heads-up, he had the authority to use any and all services to evacuate all residents from the city, as documented in a
city emergency preparedness plan. By waiting until the last minute, and failing to make full use of resources available within city limits, Nagin and his administration f**ked up.

Mayor Nagin and his emergency sidekick Terry Ebbert have displayed lethal, mind boggling incompetence before, during and after Katrina.

As for Mayor Nagin, he and his profile in pathetic leadership police chief should resign as well. That city's government is incompetent from one end to the other. The people of New Orleans deserve better than this crowd of clowns is capable of giving them.

If you're keeping track, these boobs let 569 buses that could have carried 33,350 people out of New Orleans-in one trip-get ruined in the floods. Whatever plan these guys had, it was a dud. Or it probably would have been if they'd bothered to follow it.

As for all the race-baiting rhetoric and Bush-bashing coming from prominent blacks on the left, don't expect Ray Nagin to be called out on the carpet for falling short. You want to know why? Here's why:

It's more convenient to blame a white president for what went wrong than to hold a black mayor and his administration accountable for gross negligence and failing to fully carry out an established emergency preparedness plan.

To hold Nagin and his administration accountable for dropping the ball amounts to letting loose the shouts and cries of "Racism!". It's sad, it's wrong, but it's standard operating procedure for the media and left-win black leadership.

Mark my words: you will not hear a word of criticism from Jesse Jackson Sr., Randall Robinson, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, or Kanye West being directed toward Clarence Ray Nagin Jr. Why? Because he is just another black politician instead of a responsible elected official who happens to be black.

Nagin is as inept as a Democrat can be. Totally useless!

You skipped an important person in the chain.

1. Citizen

Quoted: Got this from an email In case you aren't familiar with how our government is SUPPOSED to work ... the chain of responsibility for the protection of the citizens in New Orleans is: 1. The Mayor 2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security (a political appointee of the Governor who reports to the Governor) 3. The Governor 4. The Head of Homeland Security 5. The President

Bush stole my hubcaps!!!!!11

Yet another example of why not to let Liberals run the government.

Quoted: Yet another example of why not to let Liberals run the government.

Thanks.  I needed one, like I needed a gun to get stolen from my house.
I believe that this stuff will slowly, slowly leak out to the public.
If you listened to Rush yesterday, he played a clip of Nancy Pelosi trying to blame Bush, and a CNN reporter questioned her comments.
Pelosi got upset and flustered, then told the lady doing the interview if she was on the White House payroll she should become a White House staffer.
Who would have foreseen that from a CNN employee?

.

"Bush Hates Midgets"

At least that is what Chris Rock said during his part of the benefit concert last night.   I believe him.

Quoted: You skipped an important person in the chain. 1. Citizen Quoted: Got this from an email In case you aren't familiar with how our government is SUPPOSED to work ... the chain of responsibility for the protection of the citizens in New Orleans is: 1. The Mayor 2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security (a political appointee of the Governor who reports to the Governor) 3. The Governor 4. The Head of Homeland Security 5. The President

Thats a big +1.....people still forget individual responsibility.........of course that's par for the course in these times........I realize that most of them were poor, and had no mode of transportation.......but somewhere along the line these people made decisions that put them in this position......

And what did the President do?

Quoted:
And what did the President do?

Nagin didn't order a mandatory evacuation until 9am Sunday the 28th.  Because the order came so late and because he made no attempts to evacuate people without cars by mass transit, one can only conclude he was trying to get as many poor blacks killed as possible.  Why doesn't Nagin care about black people?

Same goes for Blanco.  The Louisiana state department of homeland security blocked the Red Cross from delivering water, food, and hygiene products to the Superdome and Convention Center, because they didn't want to draw more people to a bad situation or encourage them to stay there.  Does anyone doubt they would have let these supplies through if the people at the Superdome were middle class, white people?

Quoted: And what did the President do? www.truckblog.com/gallery/Mumbly/7531.jpg

Here's a better one.

If you're keeping track, these boobs let 569 buses that could have carried 33,350 people out of New Orleans-in one trip-get ruined in the floods.

Great call on Rush's show from Friday.  A black woman from South Carolina said (paraphrase) "You can bet them busses were running on election day when it came time to vote for Democrats"

Outstanding use of the mind!!

tag

Quoted: Quoted: And what did the President do? www.truckblog.com/gallery/Mumbly/7531.jpg Here's a better one. img352.imageshack.us/img352/6259/bushvacation8oo.jpg

Thanks, now I have to wipe coffee off of my CRT dammit! Gimme a kleenex too 'cause I blew coffee out my nose!

Quoted: Quoted: And what did the President do? www.truckblog.com/gallery/Mumbly/7531.jpg Here's a better one. img352.imageshack.us/img352/6259/bushvacation8oo.jpg

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: And what did the President do? www.truckblog.com/gallery/Mumbly/7531.jpg Here's a better one. img352.imageshack.us/img352/6259/bushvacation8oo.jpg Thanks, now I have to wipe coffee off of my CRT dammit! Gimme a kleenex too 'cause I blew coffee out my nose!

Lots more here;
www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=387247

Quoted: Quoted: And what did the President do? www.truckblog.com/gallery/Mumbly/7531.jpg

Wrong species. PS a catfish over that stripper.

Quoted: Nagin didn't order a mandatory evacuation until 9am Sunday the 28th.  Because the order came so late and because he made no attempts to evacuate people without cars by mass transit, one can only conclude he was trying to get as many poor blacks killed as possible.  Why doesn't Nagin care about black people? Same goes for Blanco.  The Louisiana state department of homeland security blocked the Red Cross from delivering water, food, and hygiene products to the Superdome and Convention Center, because they didn't want to draw more people to a bad situation or encourage them to stay there.  Does anyone doubt they would have let these supplies through if the people at the Superdome were middle class, white people?

what makes you think a bunch of middle class people would have been stupid enough to stay behind? and please your last white hate comment is not needed.