We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:18:39 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification With a Hat tip to Right Wing News... I'm standing by my initial assessment. President Bush took too long to be visible. Homeland Security bobbled, but didn't fail. The State of Louisiana and City of New Orleans... failed their citizens miserably. After the mess is cleaned up... what will they do about it? We know what the City is doing short-term... sending City employees on paid vacations to Las Vegas. While the Fire Department of New York volunteers and military forces cover for them. From the NYT article linked above: The Police City to Offer Free Trips to Las Vegas... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:31:41 -0600 I had another post up there and decided not to put it up because it sounded like I was whining. I admire the skill, dedication and professionalism of our military and for the Louisiana troops to not catch their breath just goes to show the rottenness of the timing. However, that dimbulb of a Mayor should give the troops the paid vacations to Vegas instead of the NOPD and government agencies who are worn out with the justified indignation of this country. Something about corruption rings a bell.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31712 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31712 Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:53:22 -0600 lived in New Orleans wouldn't be getting much time to decompress, the answer was a collective *sigh* I sat in on an informal debrief from one of the LAARNG folks who was among the last of the people evacuated from the Superdome, and he was on his way back there--with weapons, this time. It'll make a short-but-interesting post for the weekend; the bottom line is that there was a significant Guard presence in N'awluns before the hurricane hit, and they'd set up and were ready to roll on both rescue and security missions. Then the levee broke. More later...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31670 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31670 Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:37:45 -0600 PRIOR post. Though I am still simmering under the surface. What's very evident, is the total breakdown in NOPD's leadership. That mass desertion from their post clearly denotes low morale, and a non-existent spirit de corps.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31659 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31659 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:01:08 -0600 Saw the New York convoy headed south today as I was coming out. Had their lights agoin' and getting on down the road. Pretty cool! Wait 'til they get a load of the NO mayor! heh! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31652 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31652 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:53:18 -0600 Remember the Peter Principal. They have been elected to their level of incompetence. I agree that the governor should step down as well as that loser of a Mayor. What kind of trust could you have in someone like that? I am disappointed in Bush. He should have at least cut his trip short. However, what was he going to do after the city and the state had been warned? What should he have done to be more leaderly? I am thinking since I have the benefit of hindsight is he ought to have urged and scolded and NAGGED the mayor and governor to evacuate the city. But for them to say that he should have come to 'their' rescue is naive. If he had done that, they would have called him a bully, especially if the devastation was minimal. This president can't win for losing. These are the same people who whined about invading Iraq in one breath and then damn him in the next for not going in ready to impose martial law and sending in the military right away. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31649 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31649 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:16:23 -0600 Whoof! Yer a tough audience, Cassie! You heartless Rethuglican, you! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31647 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31647 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:50:30 -0600 More whining from professionally incompetent losers. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31645 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31645 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:46:45 -0600 Lemme get this straight: The mayor of Nawlins after a long hard session of sitting on his brain, evacuates the city employees to Vegas as a way for them to decompress, but couldn't, in nearly how many years of his administration, figger out an evacuation plan in an emergency. Not only that, we are going to pay for all of it. Got it. Twit. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31642 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31642 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:13:57 -0600 Heh. Department of Redundancy Department Alert. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31624 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/ouch.html#comment-31624 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:48:12 -0600