I listened to the Druge Report on Sunday night.   He replayed an interview with the Mayor of New Orleans from last Sunday night- just hours before the storm. WHAT A F*ING JOKE!

The mayor was calm drinking from his Starbucks coffee. He told Druge how well the evacuation was going and how everying was proceeding smoothly.   When asked about opening the airport or convention center he said there was no need.   The superdome was just fine.

The mayor said that the levees could only handle a level 3 and they were predicting a level 5 but he felt that if the levees broke, it could be pumped out in a week without any real problem.

WHAT GROSS INCOMPETENCE BY A DEMOCRATIC BLACK MAYOR.   (the racism claim is so bogus)   The mayor opened the Superdome but never thought to stock it with food or water . DUH!   The mayor had an emergency plan to use public busses and tranist to evacuate poor people but he never used them.   He preferred to spend most of his time on TV with photo ops.    Was he ever at the Superdome like Rudy was at ground zero?

The DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR was also a miserable failure.   According to the mayor (also played on Drudge this past Sunday) he had Bush and the governor in a room and told them they must get on the same page and that he wouldn't leave until they resolved the issues.   According to the mayor, Bush offered two proposals.   The governor said she needed 24 hours to review the two proposals and she would get back with them.   WHAT A DISCRACE!   She didn't have 24 hours.   How many people died in those 24 hours.   She also refused to turn over the national guard to the feds.   Once the feds came in, the General got 20,000 people removed in a single day.   (great job by the military in saving lives)

Meanwhile, 1/3 of the New orleans police force resigns while others are caught on camera looting stores. Senator Landreax's response is that she would punch Bush in the mouth. That really is productive.   The entire Lousiana government (mostly democratic) was a miserable failure from mayor, to senator to governor.   They had an emergency plan and didn't follow it resulting in the death of thousands of their citizens.   And all they can go is blame Bush and each other.

Bush was 24 hours late, (no excuse for that either) and FEMA was horrible.   Yet the mudcat forum puts the blame only on Bush and Fox News.... how sad and dishonest.   I urge you to listen to the interview with the mayor only hours before the storm and make up your own minds.