" New Orleans's Mayor Ray Nagin is up for re-election in February 2006, Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in November 2007, and Sen. Mary Landrieu in November 2008. All four are Democrats. When they point the finger at the federal government for whatever went wrong in the Katrina response, remember that they are fighting for their political lives. "
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007217
WSJ nails it.
They (the politicians) all have to be in a panic. Their constituents have all moved out and are completely dispersed. This must affect the political balance of the state. While many will return, the poor have less reason to return.
When you point your finger, three more get pointed back at you.
Thanks for the WSJ link. Basically, these lying phonies -- Nagin, Blanco and Landrieu -- have shot themselves in the foot. Too bad, huh?
And the organization skills of the Democrats in busing voters to the polls will be prodigious on those crucial days when their votes are needed. As I am sure they have been on past election days.
But when a mandatory evacuation is ordered, and lives could be saved, it becomes "every man for himself," and the Democrats suddenly become inept at transporting the "disenfranchised" to safety.
When they point the finger at the federal government for whatever went wrong in the Katrina response, remember that they are fighting for their political lives.
And unless they have a Cook County level of political corruption, most will probably be booted. People aren't stupid about something like this.
In fact, if King Daley performed this way during an equivalent disaster in Chicago, even he'd be booted.