Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco addresses a news conference at the command center in Baton Rouge, Thursday, September 1, when she called for as many as 40,000 National Guard to aid in law enforcement and relief efforts. So the witch surfaces on Thursday, as relief efforts in the city are already in high gear, and suddenly asks for a huge number of guard troops.the hurricane. At left is Louisiana State Police Superintendent Henry Whitehorn. [It's worth nothing that Blanco had not stepped foot in New Orleans throughout the entire disaster week until President Bush arrived in the city on Friday, and she popped up with this "call" for 40,000 troops as the human crisis in the city was rapidly diminishing on Thursday.]
Governor Blanco departs the news conference September 1 during which she demanded an apology from U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert after Hastert suggested New Orleans not be rebuilt. [Good thing she had the time to whine about what Hastert said. It's not like she had anything better to do.]
She's a political hack, first and foremost; a Bush-hater extraordinaire. Early in her term 2 years ago Bush visited the state but she has
'something else' scheduled.
Her partisanship cost 10,000 lives...so far.