New Orleans Mayor Outraged At Feds: "Get Off Your Asses And Let's Do Something"...

The Washington Post :

A caravan of National Guard trucks, escorted by military helicopters, drove into this embattled city early Friday afternoon carrying water, food and other relief supplies and immediately headed to the convention center, where thousands of residents have been angrily awaiting help.

They arrived just shortly before lawmakers in Washington approved $10.5 billion in emergency funding for the relief effort. The House, passed the bill on a voice vote. The Senate had done so Thursday night. President Bush, who had sought the funds for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said it was a down payment on the total federal effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast and congressional leaders promised that more money would be approved when they return in force to Washington from their summer holiday.

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