ticking Time Bomb for B*sh: receding flood waters

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This morning on a helicopter tour of the flooded towns and suburbs with George Stephanopolous, Sen. Mary Landrieu made reference to horrors that await within the many La. homes that are still roof-high in flood waters, even rehtorically asking how many mothers and babies who could not break through their roof tops will be found when people can finally get in.

Then, the sheer magnititude of what the delay in assistance, incompetence of the federal response and failure to deploy National Guardsmen immediately (those not in IRAQ), has cost in human life will be revealed.

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1. How fast are flood waters receding, no pumps working yet are there???

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4. Sen. Landrieu couldn't say- no one knows.. weeks? months?

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2. MTP was horrible for Bush. It was heartbreaking. I don't know how

anyone could watch that and not cry.

Video and transcript are at Wonkette

The Cavalry Didn't Come

Meet the Press made for compelling viewing this morning. First, Tim Russert got all feisty and paper-showing to Chertoff, demanding to know why FEMA wasn't more prepared. Chertoff responded by saying that the levee break took them by "surprise," and noted that "Tuesday morning, I opened newspapers and saw headlines that said "New Orleans dodged the bullet." Ah, well, so DHS gets its information from the papers. Good thing they're not looking for WMDs or terrorists or anything.

Then Russert interviewed president of Jefferson Parish, Aaron Broussard. He asked about the experience of getting through the disaster. Video coming. For now, this rough transcript. . .

MR. BROUSSARD: Sir, they were told like me, every single day, "The cavalry's coming," on a federal level, "The cavalry's coming, the cavalry's coming, the cavalry's coming." I have just begun to hear the hoofs of the cavalry. The cavalry's still not here yet, but I've begun to hear the hoofs, and we're almost a week out.


MR. BROUSSARD: I'm telling you most importantly I want to thank my public employees...

MR. RUSSERT: All right.

MR. BROUSSARD: ...that have worked 24/7. They're burned out, the doctors, the nurses. And I want to give you one last story and I'll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, "Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?" And he said, "Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday." And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night. . . Nobody's coming to get us. Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody.


Video here. Haley Barbour came on afterwards, clean, showered, powered. Make up has never made anyone look worse.

Transcript for September 4, Michael Chertoff, Mark Fischetti, Marc Morial, Mike Tidwell and David Wessel

READ MORE: katrina , meet the press , michael chertoff , tim russert , top

http://www.wonkette.com/politics//the-cavalry-didnt-come-123792.php

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3. that interview (w/ Mr. Broussard) was just replayed on CNN

i hope they keep playing it.