2,000 Buses?

Not much traction with the abuse�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

That's Washington Times Editor Wesley Pruden on the New Orleans subject. He says TWO THOUSAND buses sit unused in four feet of water in the Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool.

You figure, even if you only cram 50 people on a bus and only make one trip, that's 100,000 people...pretty much the exact count of how many stayed behind. As for the question of who would drive them, in my youth we had a church bus in our tiny town, and a school bus for the tiny Fascist School I attended. (I refuse to call it a Christian school, as Christ had very little to do with it and doesn't deserve the blame.) In both cases, people with no more experience than driving a pickup truck handled the buses just fine on the open road.

The path to rescuing every person left in New Orleans sat at Ray Nagin's feet...and he chose to ignore them, waiting for the feds to bail him out.