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What do you think this means?

Blanco made two moves Saturday that protected her independence from the federal government: She created a philanthropic fund for the state's victims and hired James Lee Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency director in the Clinton administration, to advise her on the relief effort.

That protected her independence from the federal government?

She wants this all on herself? (Fine by me.)

She wants this all on herself? (Fine by me.)

Not when it comes to PAYING FOR IT. She is just trying to say that Pres. Bush was at fault and she doesn't want to be connected to him when HER PARTY & MEDIA gets through trashing him.

I think it's going to backfire, BIG TIME.

The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. [from the President] "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

I wonder if that's it right there. In a convoluted irrational way, I wonder if they think that keeping control means they get to spin it any way they want. Maybe they believe they have documentation that would be uncovered that shows just how ill prepared they were, or documentation that shows funding being shifted to places other than disaster preparation.

They are approaching rescue and relief efforts with politics in mind. In a nutshell, they're playing political games with people's lives. Yet somehow, they think that this game will keep them from looking bad.

When this gets gone over with a fine tooth comb, all those screaming that its Bush's fault are going to be sorry.

They made it political.

There will be many bent on getting the truth out no matter what now.

There's going to be payback.