Lack of leadership here, and I will keep saying this until the message gets through.
Blanco and the Mayor are nowhere. Where are the elected officials?
These people cannot even define leadership, much less practice it. Criminal lack of vision, planning, leadership and personal responsibility.
Blanco made a brief presser today,
saying they now have Marshall Law.
Bit late.
Blanco was on the verge of tears,
b/c she knows she did wrong from
the start.
The thugs already have
guns and ammo. Enough to start
a war.
I'm not here to defend these two, but I do want to offer up some other things to ponder along with this.
For decades the good citizens of New Orleans knew that their city sat up to twelve feet below sea level. For decades they knew that 18 foot levies would not protect the city against a thirty food storm surge. For decades they should have figured out for themselves how vulnerable they were and prepare.
I'm sure there are some issues that this governor and mayor should be taken to task over, but everyone from FEMA on down ignored this situation for a good long time. I don't have the stomach to tee off on the mayor and the governor at this time.
Is it deserving? It may be. To be honest, FEMA should have been on top of this. It is their mandate to prepare for and administer catastrophic natural disasters. Where were they?
After this event, are you comfortable to know that FEMA is in the loop to manage our nuclear arsenal in the event of a national crisis?