Getting the government they want

[flatdog]

This vote was in large part about control of the enormous federal and state funding, in a post Katrina/Rita Louisiana. It's a gold mine

Nagin is the local boy who made good and will take care of them by standing up to the federal government. Landrieu is there to keep the family dynasty going and to secure votes for his sister, Senator Mary.

They used the same buses that were left standing idle during the flood, to pick up the evacuees and bring them all the way back. So they could dutifully vote for the same people who left them stranded on their rooftops in the beginning.

The corruption in LA politics is on a par with Boss Tweeds' Tammany Hall in New York, or Al Capone's prohibition era Chicago. That's the cleaned up version.

The 2A is way down on the list of priorities for the supporters of either candidate, if it's there at all.

 

[wingman]

Many folks vote emotions,race, religion over common sense, it happens
in many places, having said that NO is pretty much like Calif. off my visit
list.

 

[longeyes]

Nagin versus Landrieu? A real choice for the ages.

Too bad Faulkner's not around. He'd be enjoying this.

 

[XavierBreath]

Nagin versus Landrieu? A real choice for the ages.

Brought to you by the state that arranged the Edwards/Duke runoff! :banghead:

 

[Silver Bullet]

Shades of Washington DC and Marion Barry.

If you didn't know better, you'd swear some folks vote on the basis of race rather than RKBA stance.

 

[Sry0fcr]

NO should have elected the teenager who stole the bus and drove a bunch of evacuees to Houston.

He was arrested on drug charges a couple months back IIRC. Besides I'm more than a little pissed about him driving to Houston, when Dallas is just as nice.

 

[longeyes]

Well, the hurricanes aren't done yet. I hope they all know how to swim.

Of course a few more 'canes and prosperity will be just around the corner.

 

[longeyes]

Hurricanes are good business--for the super-rich. Every time a big one hits and there's a national disaster the most powerful families in the Lousiana orbit rake in untold millions, maybe billions, of dollars siphoned off "government aid."

Hurricanes be bery bery good to some people.

 

[JerryM]

NO deserves what it has elected.
Let it be a chocolate city. As for me I have not plans to go there. I only went once for a job interview, and concluded that it would take more money than anyone would offer me to go there.

Jerry

 

[flatdog]

Quote:
Nagin versus Landrieu? A real choice for the ages.
Brought to you by the state that arranged the Edwards/Duke runoff!
__________________
Ewards/Duke runoff bumper sticker:

VOTE FOR THE CROOK. IT'S IMPORTANT!

 

[BIGJACK]

You know, most of you all only know, about Nagin what you read or heard from that dam "lying communist anti american news media" so what if the majority of the folks down there still want him. It is still america isn't it. Majority rules and that stuff, or does the constitution only count when you are in the majority.
Too bad that it has been proven and generally accepted that Nagin and the Governor were right about the Feds poor response so suck it up. GWB and company tried to push the blame onto the locals and it bounced right back on their sorry @#%$>

 

[Silver Bullet]

Are you talking about the same Nagin that left the busses in the parking lot ?

The same Nagin that confiscated the firearms of law-abiding citizens ?

That's a leftist hero, all right.


Nobody's saying that the comrades in N.O. don't have a right to elect him, only that they're going to get what they deserve.

 

[flatdog]

Plenty of blame rests squarely on the shoulders of those directing the federal response. That does not, however, absolve state and local officials of culpability in this matter. They had a solemn duty to their citizens and failed miserably in it's execution.

Using federal misdeeds to justify the malfeasance of state and local officials won't fly. School buses by the hundreds went unused until too late and were covered by flood water. The Red Cross was turned back at the state line. No physical security was provided for unarmed FEMA workers. Looters over matched what was left of the NOPD and were free to rape and pillage at will.

Congressman Jefferson commandeered a sorely needed Duce and a half truck plus National Guard troops to secure his personal residence. Which was under no imminent threat from flood waters. That same truck with it's troops became stuck on the return route and was then itself in need of rescue.

Emergency evacuation plans that were already in place were not implemented. But high ranking officials and their families got out on the first thing smokin'. On and on ad nauseum.

No amount of buck passing will absolve local and state officials of massive ineptitude. No matter how loud or long the braying.

 

[MarinePride]

I guess that some people are slow learners and have short memories. I don't even live in LA and I know what a double talker this guy is because of the Katrina debacle/gun confiscation. After everything that N.O. has been through, it would have been a good idea to replace the incumbent.

 

[full auto seer]

Hey, y'all don't like New Orleans, don't come down here.

Thanks to LA locals who are posting information.

No thanks to HATERS who just know from the TV.

-seer-

(Ain't this THE HIGH ROAD????????????????????????)

 

[Seven High]

I suggest that the authorities there investigate the absentee voters and ballots for fraud.

 

[Malone LaVeigh]

The people of NO are no more moronic than the people that reelected the person that lied us into an unnecessary war.

 

[cropcirclewalker]

There I went and done it again.......I let my subscription the the Constitution updates expire........

Too bad that it has been proven and generally accepted that Nagin and the Governor were right about the Feds poor response so suck it up. GWB and company tried to push the blame onto the locals and it bounced right back on their sorry @#%$>

Hey, make it simple for me...Please post the updated section in the constitution that makes the job of local disaster relief the problem of the fed.gov.

I yam too poor to renew my subscription.

 

[BIGJACK]

WE THE PEOPLE------ONE NATION, UNDER GOD----

 

[Art Eatman]

BIGJACK, check out this URL:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/2315076.html

Art

 

[engineer151515]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/reports/katrina-lessons-learned/chapter4.html

In fact, the New Orleans Mayor’s Office operated out of a Hyatt Hotel for several days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, unable to establish reliable communications with anyone outside the hotel for nearly forty-eight hours. This meant that the Mayor was neither able to effectively command the local efforts, nor was he able to guide the State and Federal support for two days following the storm.

I wouldn't have voted for him.

 

[roo_ster]

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
----H. L. Mencken

Let the people of NO get it in the face.

BTW, get the heck out of Texas!