However we have to distinguish conscious planning, such as might occur before a carefully executed Bank heist, and deeply flawed habits, goals and spirit.
The leftist 'Rats play on peoples fears and emotions. They instinctively blame the other guy for whatever they just did at the first sign of getting caught. They are corrupt to the core. They lie, cheat and steal out of habit. They build incompetent and bloated bureaucracies on great mountains of waste. They are more like gangs fighting turf wars than business executives. The profoundly flawed ideas behind socialism have found a fertile field in the human mind, a pox on humanity.
They way the 'Rats played their hand here simply represents who they are.
On another point, I like it that Bush has not publicly humiliated Blanco. His rule of thumb is you either remove someone, or you help them succeed. You for dang sure don't humiliate someone in public and then expect to be able to trust them. It was not his call to remove the Governor. So he is doing his best to help her succeed. A challenge if I do say so.
According to the 2000 census, New Orleans’ population of 484,000 included approximately 136,000 whites, and 326,000 blacks. The white figure includes 7,000 Hispanics who classify themselves as white on the census forms. If 80% of New Orleans residents got out early – and this is the Mayor’s number – then only about 97,000 residents remained. Assume all of them were black, (which of course they were not). That would mean that 229,000 blacks got out early, and 136,000 whites along with them. In other words, the successful mass evacuation substantially benefited black residents of the city.
At least 70% of black residents of New Orleans got out of the city before the storm (assuming 100% of those left behind were black), and undoubtedly more than that (since all those left behind were not black). It is almost certainly the case that the great majority of those who were left behind were black. There are obvious reasons for this, including the fact that New Orleans is overwhelmingly a black city to begin with.
Another factor is that 35% of black residents of New Orleans do not own automobiles, while 15% of white residents do not. So to the extent that getting oneself to the highway was the best method to get out of out of town, blacks were disadvantaged. That is where local officials failed. With many hundreds of school buses available, the city chose to provide safe shelter for those who did not or could not leave town in the Super Dome. Close to 30,000 people moved there.