Posted on 09/01/2005 9:00:07 PM PDT by Serious Capitalist
Blanco demands apology 9:15 p.m. An angry Gov. Kathleen Blanco demanded that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., apologize for his statement that it might not make sense to rebuild New Orleans. It was unthinkable, Blanco said, that Hastert would kick us when were down. I demand an immediate apology. At a press conference Thursday night, she said that 300 soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard arrived in New Orleans fresh from Iraq and are under orders to restore order from the hoodlums. She said of the soldiers: They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot to kill . . . and I expect they will. U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, said that 1,500 people had gathered on the Chalmette ferry landing awaiting evacuation, possibly by ferry, to Algiers. Making a plea for those refugees to receive food and water now, Melancon estimated that about 100 are dead, possibly from dehydration. Officials also noted that an additional 80 police officers are now on the streets of New Orleans from elsewhere around the country, bringing some stability to the Superdome. A doctor in University Hospital telephoned a Baton Rouge TV station, hoping to call attention to the desperate plight at his hospital. The hospital was running low on food and water, and had no power, the doctor said. We have 160 patients in the hospital and they are actively dying, he said.
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Maybe it was PMS.
That's been the "old fashioned" worry about women in key roles in politics, business and combat...that they're just too damn EMOTIONAL.
I suggest at least 80% of her constituants would disagree with you at this point.
But it won't be necessary, she will knuckle under.
At this point, in NO alone, they need more like 10,000 IMHO.
ESPECIALLY with the attitudes that I've seen expressed from the New Orleans governmental and business so-called leadership.
Dammit people! You can't build and live in an area that dares to be a disaster zone and then blame the feds when it happens and you're not prepared.
Yes, the port must be rebuilt, but nothing says that we have to rebuild the city as it was. Almost anything under three stories that was flooded will have to be bulldozed since it will be so badly contaminated that it will be cost prohibitive to remediate it.
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