Bryan Preston from Junkyard Blog has been following the whole mess with the failure to commission the school buses in the evacuation effort in New Orleans. He has blown out his own bandwidth on his blog and is now guest blogging on Michelle Malkin's space..
New Orleans' city government was an abscess. I say "was," by the way, because for all intents and purposes it ceased to exist some time last week--probably at about the same time the local officials realized that their multiple failures were bound to lead to major loss of life. Its emergency management czar, one Terry Ebbert, squealed about an absence of command and control over the relief effort, when it was his job to establish that command and control. The police department is two-thirds gone after about 1,000 officers deserted in the face of the flood and the looters--some of whom were police officers themselves. Mayor Nagin sent up a profanity-laced diatribe against the federal government that should have been delivered in front of a mirror. The abscess at city hall failed its citizens.
You'll only get this insight in the blogosphere!
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