Nagin ought to have been the first to be laid off

This is sad news:

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says the city has to lay off as many as 3,000 workers.

Nagin says he's worked for weeks to try to find the financing that would allow him to keep the city workers on the payroll.

But he says in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, that isn't possible.

This, however, is news you're not likely to see in the MSM:

These buses never flooded and the route from there to the Convention Center and the Superdome was open the whole time.  The hurricane blew in Monday morning and this picture (below)  was not taken until Wednesday. They did not finish evacuating the Superdome until Saturday.

To put a fine point on it... These were not private buses. They did not belong to a neighboring parish. These buses belonged to Mayor Ray Nagin. He could have used them at any time. He didn't.

H/T to The Anchoress