Mayor Nagin "Pissed" at Feds/Bush for Failing to Do His Job

New Orleans mayor blasts federal response
'Flying over in Air Force One does not do it justice,' Ray Nagin tells Bush
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:15 a.m. ET Sept. 2, 2005

NEW ORLEANS - Ahead of President Bush's trip to the hurricane-ravaged South, Mayor Ray Nagin lashed out at federal officials, telling a local radio station “they don’t have a clue what’s going on down here.”

Federal officials expressed sympathy but quickly defended themselves, saying they, too, were overwhelmed by the catastrophe that hit the Gulf Coast region on Monday.
Nagin’s interview Thursday night on WWL radio came as President Bush planned to visit Gulf Coast communities battered by Hurricane Katrina, a visit aimed at alleviating criticism that he engineered a too-little, too-late response.

Bush viewed the damage while flying over the region Wednesday en route to Washington after cutting short his Texas vacation by two days.

“They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn — excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed,” Nagin said.

Tell me Mr. Mayor Nagin, why didn't you evacuate your city. You Democrats talk about how those people couldn't leave because they didn't have cars. Well Mr. Mayor why didn't you use these:



These buses now lie in ruins when they could have been used to evacuate your citizens.

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