Reply #15: Nagin waited a day too long to declare mandatory evacuation and

[Eloriel]

then wasn't nearly as effective at HELPING people get out as he said he was going to be.

Landrieu is either in the pitiable, humiliating position of having to thank Bush and others in order to try to ensure they'll continue to get some services, instead of being able to blast them -- OR she's clueless and thus worthless.

Blanco is probably doing as well as she can. And this probably applies to Nagin too. But what is needed is FEDERAL help -- thousands more choppers, tens of thousands more Nat'l Guard.

Bush was so self-congratulatory about sending those supplies which included 5.4 million MREs. Well, sounds like spitting in the ocean to me. There are SURELY more than 1 million people displaced and currently homelss, so that's just FIVE MEALS per person. Worse than a drop in the bucket.