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RUSH: Is it obvious to you that this is all falling apart on these people as it is to me? It\u2019s clear that this is not about mass transit. Mary Landrieu, you put a bag of cow manure in front of her these days and she will step in it. So let\u2019s listen to Tim Russert who grilled the mayor yesterday, Ray Nagin and Tim had a copy of the New Orleans evacuation order, which clearly stipulates that the mayor is in charge of everything. Now, get this. Russert\u2019s question, “We\u2019ve all seen this photograph of the submerged school buses. Why didn\u2019t you declare, order a mandatory evacuation on Friday when the president declared an emergency, and have utilized those buses to get people out of the city?”<\/line>NAGIN: We did the things that we thought were best based on the information that we had. Sure there was lots of buses out there. But guess what? You can\u2019t find drivers that would stay behind with a category five hurricane, you know, pending down on New Orleans. We barely got enough drivers to move people on Sunday or — on Sunday, Saturday and Sunday, to move them to the Superdome. We barely had enough drivers for that. So sure, we had the assets, but the drivers just weren\u2019t available.<\/line> RUSH: You just can\u2019t get people to show up. You just can\u2019t get people to show up to work. What if you said, mayor, what if the said to the drivers whose job it is to drive the buses, “Look, this will get you out of here, too. If you\u2019re driving the bus, you will succeed in evacuating. And we\u2019ll even let you bring your family. If you don\u2019t have a car, we\u2019ll let you bring your family, put your family on the bus as you\u2019re evacuating those who need help to get out, and we will kill two birds with one stone. We\u2019ll save you and your family and the school bus and the people who are being transported out.” <\/line>Now, my friends, I\u2019m not even an elected city official and I could think of this. Couldn\u2019t get the drivers. So no matter where you turn in this state, whether it\u2019s Senator Landrieu or Mayor Nagin, you just can\u2019t find good people, they just won\u2019t hang around and show up to work. Next question from Russert is kind of long. He said, “Mr. Mayor, if you read the city of New Orleans comprehensive — and I\u2019ve read it, and I\u2019ll show it to you and our viewers — it says very clearly, ‘Conduct of an actual evacuation will be the responsibility of the mayor of New Orleans, the city of New Orleans to utilize all available resources to quickly and safely evacuate threatened areas. Special arrangements will be made to evacuate persons unable to transport themselves or who require specific life saving assistance. Additional personnel will be recruited to assist in evacuating procedures as needed. Approximately a hundred thousand citizens of New Orleans do not have the means of personal transportation.\u2019 So, mayor, it was your responsibility, where was planning, where was the preparation, where was the execution, why couldn\u2019t you find people to drive those buses?”<\/line><\/p>\n

NAGIN: The planning was always in getting people to higher ground, getting them to safety. That\u2019s what we meant by evacuation, get them out of their homes which most people are under sea level, get them to higher ground and then depend upon our state and our federal officials to move them out of harm\u2019s way after the storm has hit.<\/line>RUSH: Oh. Have you heard this one before yesterday? No, I hadn\u2019t heard this before yesterday. So now all the city had to do was get them above sea level and then the state and the feds are supposed to come in and get them to hell the rest out. Notice the governor does not escape here any sense of responsibility on the part of the mayor.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>Let me play a piece of audio for you, folks. Cookie tells me, this is from Wednesday, August 31st, and this is between network interviews, Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana, was going from one network to another to another, to do interviews, but between interviews, she was overheard speaking to her press secretary, Denise Bottcher, and she admits that she should have asked for military assistance much earlier, but that she didn\u2019t want that because she didn\u2019t want the military to put good people in jeopardy. Here\u2019s what she had to say again, talking to her press secretary between interviews on various cable networks.<\/line> BLANCO: I said we\u2019re not tolerating asking for more military presence. But I mean — but I\u2019m saying put good people at jeopardy, potentially. I really need to call for the military. I should have started that in the first call. <\/line>RUSH: Okay, so she\u2019s feeling remorse that she didn\u2019t call the military out sooner, she should have done that in the first call, but she just didn\u2019t feel right calling the military out because that would put good people in jeopardy, potentially. Now, what underlying world view must you have to think that the military will put good people in jeopardy? I have the answer. A liberal world view will help you with that. You have a liberal world view, then you know that the military puts good people in jeopardy. So she was resisting because of an apparent ingrained ideological bias against the military. <\/line> Michael in Lafayette, Louisiana<\/a>, I\u2019m glad you called, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Pleasure to talk to you.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: I was driving through Houston last week coming back from a run and I was listening to local radio stations and they were interviewing evacuees at the Astrodome, and time after time I\u2019d hear one of them say, “Well, I have no plans of returning to New Orleans. What\u2019s to go back to?” And as I kept hearing this, this optimism started rising in me, and then I realized that this is the best thing I\u2019ve ever heard, because if the Democratic base thins out and moves out, we might have a chance to turn this state into what it deserves to be.<\/line>RUSH: You know something, we talked about this on Friday, Michael. This is happening in the northeast in the Rust Belt states to the Democrats, people are leaving those regions for other parts of the country, for more economic opportunity, better climates and so forth. And already there are a couple of stories, I\u2019ve got them here in the stacks, your instinct is right on the money. The Democrats are starting to worry that a huge number of citizens from New Orleans may not go back, and that\u2019s going to upset the balance down there which gives New Orleans in statewide elections all this power and prominence, because that\u2019s where Landrieu\u2019s base is, that\u2019s where margin of victory is in the statewide Senate race. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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