Jefferson Parish President, Aaron Broussard's heartrending summation of the Bush administration's criminal incompetence is something everyone should hear. The link above is a sound clip of the segment on yesterday's Meet The Press with Tim Russert.
Here's a transcript of his anguished indictment...
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! [Sobbing] 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's sakes, just shut up and send us somebody.
To see a video clip of this, go to Crooks and Liars for that and much much more. The site is amazing for those of you who have high speed providers or a great deal of patience. They also have clips of Celine Dion's emotional appearance on Larry King Live, Shepard Smith's moment of clarity on FOX News and the unbelievable clip of Wolf Blitzer's desription of the victims of Katrina as...
All of them that we see are so poor and so black...
I saw it and thought I misheard, but they have the clip.
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