Fox news found the smoking gun

Thanks to a loyal reader, we have a transcript from last night on Fox News which proves the Mayor knew what would happen to the Hurricane victims.

Last night we told you about an editorial in the New Orleans Times-Picayune blaming President Bush and the federal government for failing to adequately respond to the Katrina disaster. But earlier this summer, the paper reported that Mayor Nagin and other city officials were warning "the poorest of New Orleans' poor" that if a hurricane hits, "you're on your own."
City administrators distributed hundreds of DVDs in vulnerable, low-income neighborhoods, telling residents that while some city and school buses would be deployed to move those without transportation, "you're responsible for your safety." This despite the fact that New Orleans' emergency hurricane plan places the responsibility for evacuation on the mayor and city's transit authority.

Now the folks on the left will try to divert and attack the Bush Administration despite a Gallup Poll which places blame firmly at the feet of the local government. Only 13% say President Bush is primarily responsible for the slow response.

Additonally, Major Garrett reported this evening that the Red Cross was ready to go to the Super Dome and Convention Center to help with food, water and hygene kits, but the Louisiana State Department of Homeland Security told them they could not go because they did not want to the Super Dome and Convention Center to attract more refugees or to enable the refugees to remain longer. Talk about a smoking gun!

If you couple the Presidential disater degree the Friday before the storm offering troops and funding with no response, the Sunday pleading to evacuate by the President, the rapid storm response to Mississippi on Monday and inaction by the State of Louisiana and then the nasty rhetoric by the Mayor and Governor BEFORE any help was officially requested, it does not look good for the local officials.

I hope there are hearings and they call the Governors of Alabama and Mississippi and the responding agencies because they will tell the truth and the ineptitude and "criminal behavior" as the Dems are calling it in relation to the President is revealed to true - but in relation to the Democrats who have run Louisiana for more than 40 years.