OK, now it appears that the Mayor of New Orleans is officially a complete and utter dumbass.

New Orleans, Louisiana (AHN) - Apparently suffering from stress and a bit of paranoia, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin tells CNN Saturday night that he believes the CIA will “wipe him out” after his criticism of President Bush and the Federal Government in response to Hurricane Katrina.

Mayor Nagin seemed to have calmed down after meeting with President Bush for two hours on Friday but became stressed again over the current situation still unfolding in his city.

The Mayor has come under serious scrutiny and criticism in the last 72 hours after photos of parking lots filled with school buses that were sitting in a foot of water were released on the Internet. Many critics of the Mayor and Gov. Blanco say the buses could have saved an estimated 20,000 people if they had been used for emergency evacuations which President Bush had declared two days before Katrina hit.

Nine stockpiles of fire-and-rescue equipment strategically placed around the country to be used in the event of a catastrophe still have not been pressed into service in New Orleans, CNN reports Saturday night. Responding to a CNN inquiry, Department of Homeland Security spokesman Marc Short said Friday, “The gear has not been moved because none of the governors in the hurricane-ravaged area has requested it.”

A federal official says the department’s Office for Domestic Preparedness reminded the Louisiana and Mississippi Governors’ offices about the stockpiles on Wednesday and Thursday, but neither governor had requested it.

The CIA is gonna wipe you out? WTF, are you some idiot rap singer? I’d say you’re in line to ride the short bus, but wait, they’re all sitting in parking lots around town.
OK, it is now official. I won’t give a damn penny to New Orleans.*
There, I’ve said it.
They don’t deserve any of it, because believe it or not all you people begging for the nanny government to wipe your asses, they voted for the people responsible for the mess they are in. The way this country works is that responsibility for the preparation and evacuation is solely on the heads of the local officials up to and including the governor. The federals are only there to assist.
For those who still don’t know, the feds cannot do a damn thing until the local officials request help.
No troops.
No food.
No aid.
They sit there waiting and waiting, until requested. Thats how the system works.
Any normal governor/mayor would quickly ask for the aid, and it would be there. But no. They were playing political games with everyone’s lives down there.

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state’s emergency operations center said Saturday.

The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. “Quite frankly, if they’d been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals,” said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

See? The Democratic leadership of Lousiana was already in the blame game. They were too busy grabbing every microphone they could to say that the Feds screwed the pooch, and that they were saints trying to hold back the flood waters like Moses himself!

Arrgggh, thanks to Pirate Cove for getting me all fired up this morning!
Others who essentiall agree include The Queen of All Evil…

* There are many other areas hit that didn’t resort to cannibalizing on eachother, such as Biloxi, where I’m glad to send money and aid to.

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