The blame game.

[Sharpie]

Mike, putting politics aside - I have been wondering what the locals think of the mayor. Has he been competent in the past?

To an outsider, it looks like he did about all a mayor can do - EXCEPT, if those damn buses had been on the road helping people - they wouldn't been parked to get flooded in????

There appears to be plenty of blame to go around. It appeared at first that New Orleans had been somewhat spared in getting the brunt of the storm, which may have had some letting their guard down. But, it was definately going to hit in La/Miss somehwere & there would seem to be NO excuse for not having the National Guard ready to go immediately wherever they were needed.

Of course , all the feds came out looking stupid.... FEMA director saying he had no idea what was going on & Bush telling him what a great job he was doing - when in realty, everything was wrapped up in red tape and NOTHING was being done. Mostly they are all pompus bastards, and don't have a clue about the real world.

[RyanLanane]

Mike I would like to know what NO citizens are thinking (in your opinion) about the mayor as well. From what I have seen on T.V. he seemed to be the only one who was pushing to get things accomplished the whole time, and the only one who was actually working on things from the get go. Do you still think he has failed you as a mayor or do you view him as the only 'knight in shining armour' that arose during Katrina.

I don't know the name of everybody who heads every one of the departments involved in this, but I can tell you without knowing the names that all of them are responsible. It doesn't matter to what degree each is responsible they have all screwed up and made a mistake, a horrible mistake at that...

That being said there is absolutely NO reason Bush shouldn't have had the national guard in their WHEN the levies were breaking in mass quantities already. We knew this storm was coming towards NO days before it hit.

My guess is when it swerved away from NO at the last moment everyone (meaning Bush and his cabinet/advisors) was so relieved they forgot that it was still going to be devastating none the less and lowered the 'alert level'

Even if Katrina was not goign to have ad irect hit on NO it was going to have a direct impact somewhere in America. It was also still going to hit NO period and have a major effect on them especially since the entire city is below the sea level.

I can't help but wonder if the worse had happened if the reaction would of been quicker by everyone who had the power to send in the cavalry or if we would of still seen the confusion we did.

[Nickatilynx]

Originally Posted by Sharpie

EXCEPT, if those damn buses had been on the road helping people - they wouldn't been parked to get flooded in????

Wouldn't they have been blown away?