Compassionate Conservatives

Jefferson Parish President on Meat the Press (via Atrios)

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. And she drowned Friday night. 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.

Or this

However, the NYT reports that the Army Corps of Engineers estimates it could take up to 80 days to completely drain the city. In a rare show of restraint, all the papers refrain from guessing at the total number of dead, instead contenting themselves with mentioning particularly large caches of corpses, like the 31 dead found at a nursing home, with hundreds more residents missing.

How About These

Three babies died at the New Orleans Convention Center from heat exhaustion, said Mark Kyle, a medical relief provider.

But remember, these folks were warned to evacuate and it's there own damned fault if they "chose" to stay.

Assholes.