he raises a question, though, that i don't have a suitable answer for, namely, well, why weren't buses used to get people out of new orleans?

i've heard that there was no town that would accept them, that they had no place to go. i don't know if phone calls were taking place behind closed doors and if the city was met w/ rebuffs everywhere it turned. i haven't seen any proof of this. i would like this question to be put to the local officials, though. (we hear the grilling, and deservedly so, that scott mclellan is getting.)

i do believe that this was bigger than the local government, that fema should have been down there early--it's not as if there wasn't warning--and help organize the many resources that should have been brought to bear. i had heard the other day that those directly effected, like mayor nagin for one, were too close to what was going on, had too much personally invested in the town (one sees this in police officers who were in tears, walked off the job, or, worst of all, committed suicide). this is why i believe that one needed someone who could put all of it perspective. this may be the governor, but i think, having all of the resources, one would most logically rely on the federal government.

but we've, unfortunately, seen how this turned out.

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