Day By Day© by Chris Muir.Monday, September 12, 2005
Tough Questions...Terrible Answers
Weeee. Chris Wallace hit Senator Mary Landrieu with the million dollar question on Fox New Sunday. What up 'bout them buses? The Senator's answer had something to do about how the Bush administration didn't support mass transit on sunny days. Or something like that.
Actually, I think her point was more along the lines of "Shut Up!". Anyway, her answer was powerful bad.
The Corner has the relevant portion of the transcript.
Meanwhile, Tim Russert got it straight from the horse's mouth:
Oh, yeah. I think we are already debating those points, Mr. Nagin. And for the record, Russert asked you why you didn't do those things on Friday, when you still had drivers. And dry buses. And time. You could have at least moved the buses to higher ground. You know, in case you needed them. Later. Like if there was a big hurricane. Or something.
I was disappointed that the issue of the Red Cross being kept out of New Orleans didn't come up. Nagin seemed cued up to hammer the Governor on that point, but Russert didn't follow through. Hell, it would be nice if we had some reporting on that issue, period.
All I caught on the Today show this morning was the obligatory story on Bush's "sagging" poll numbers. "Can he 'weather the storm'?" Get it?
Man that show sucks.
Actually, I think her point was more along the lines of "Shut Up!". Anyway, her answer was powerful bad.
The Corner has the relevant portion of the transcript.
Meanwhile, Tim Russert got it straight from the horse's mouth:
RUSSERT: ...we've all see this photograph of these submerged school buses. Why did you not declare, order, a mandatory evacuation on Friday, when the president declared an emergency, and have utilized those buses to get people out?
MAYOR NAGIN: You know, Tim, that's one of the things that will be debated. There has never been a catastrophe in the history of New Orleans like this. There has never been any Category 5 storm of this magnitude that has hit New Orleans directly. We did the things that we thought were best based upon the information that we had. Sure, here was lots of buses out there. But guess what? You can't find drivers that would stay behind with a Category 5 hurricane, you know, pending down on New Orleans. We barely got enough drivers to move people on Sunday, or Saturday and Sunday, to move them to the Superdome. We barely had enough drivers for that. So sure, we had the assets, but the drivers just weren't available.
Oh, yeah. I think we are already debating those points, Mr. Nagin. And for the record, Russert asked you why you didn't do those things on Friday, when you still had drivers. And dry buses. And time. You could have at least moved the buses to higher ground. You know, in case you needed them. Later. Like if there was a big hurricane. Or something.
I was disappointed that the issue of the Red Cross being kept out of New Orleans didn't come up. Nagin seemed cued up to hammer the Governor on that point, but Russert didn't follow through. Hell, it would be nice if we had some reporting on that issue, period.
All I caught on the Today show this morning was the obligatory story on Bush's "sagging" poll numbers. "Can he 'weather the storm'?" Get it?
Man that show sucks.
