"So, she expects to not declare the state in an emergency, she expects to block all federal efforts to get the job done all the while manipulating all efforts to cast blame on the feds for doing nothing - and, then that the President of the United States will call and tell her he is coming to visit her state?"
There was a time in the not-too-distant past that Pres. Bush came to Baton Rouge for a LSU graduation and Blanco said she was "too busy" that day to greet the President. She did not even send someone from her office to represent her. What was she doing that was more important than meeting the United States President who was in the capitol city? Having lunch with Tom Benson of the NO Saints. So it seems that she is, perhaps, reaping what she has sown - and I certainly hope she is.
The Purpose of FEMA. Roles and Responsiblities. State, Local and Tribal Government. Federal Government.
http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NRPbaseplan.pdf
History of FEMA
http://www.fema.gov/about/history.shtm
I can't stand that woman. Bush had to call her and TELL HER to get that city evacuated - the two idiots in charge were too dense to do anything without running to their lawyers.
Probably the reason they are blaming him so much now to direct the ire to Bush rather than where it belongs on the governor and mayor and the state that did not want to mend their levees.