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| Steyn: The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll |
| 2005-09-06 |
| Posted by:Ulease Threreper2133 |
| #2 "some credit should be givin to Katrina, she was a full blown bitch of a storm" The mayor has a new defense, in the spirit of Marion Barry. |
| Posted by: Dave 2005-09-06 21:15 |
| #1 Steyn:Readers may recall my words from a week ago on the approaching Katrina: "We relish the opportunity to rise to the occasion. And on the whole we do. Oh, to be sure, there are always folks who panic or loot. But most people don't, and many are capable of extraordinary acts of hastily improvised heroism." What the hell was I thinking? I should be fired for that. Well, someone should be fired. I say that in the spirit of the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, the Anti-Giuliani, a Mayor Culpa who always knows where to point the finger. For some reason, I failed to consider the possibility that the panickers would include Hizzoner the Mayor and the looters would include significant numbers of the police department, though in fairness I wasn't the only one. As General Blum said at Saturday's Defence Department briefing: "No one anticipated the disintegration or the erosion of the civilian police force in New Orleans." Indeed, they eroded faster than the levees. Several hundred cops are reported to have walked off the job. To give the city credit, it has a lovely "Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan" for hurricanes. The only flaw in the plan is that the person charged with putting it into effect is the mayor. And he didn't. Congressman Billy Tauzin once said of his state: "One half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment." Last week, four fifths of New Orleans was under water and the other four fifths should be under indictment - which is the kind of arithmetic the state's deeply entrenched kleptocrat political culture will have no trouble making add up. lol. there you have it. I might add that some credit should be givin to Katrina, she was a full blown bitch of a storm and I'm sure she's a registered Democrat. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-09-06 01:12 |