It has become obvious that a National Governors' Conference must be convened by the Dept. of Homeland Security with attendance mandatory upon threat of withdrawl of all Federal disaster funding. It appears there are too many idiots who don't know the basic duties of their offices. I hope some Repub. politician sees this post and moves to throw the resposibility squarely back where it belongs.
Are you a conservative? A Republican? This sounds like Franklin Roosevelt or Bernard Baruch talking. Not even Hamilton hated the States that much, that he proposed allowing the federal government to dictate requirements for holding State office.
Governors hold office at the pleasure of the People. Mary Landrieu ran Gov. Blanco's campaign and came up with the last-minute "dirty trick" that got her elected over a better candidate, Bobby Jindal, a Republican immigrant from India. The People are paying in a bitter coin for their former folly in listening to Mary Landrieu's lie machine. Blanco is finita, washed up, and a massive millstone around Landrieu's neck. But that's all for the day after tomorrow, or sometime next month or the month after. Today's concerns press in at the moment.
But don't toss out the federal system or popular sovereignty just because a political-hack governor didn't make the grade in a crisis.