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The governor procrastinates (Governor Blanco)
Washington Times ^
| Wednesday, September 7, 2005
| House Editorial
Posted on 09/07/2005 2:43:19 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: bobjam
"without consulting the UN or Paris..."
Ahh...that would explain why Chirac is only sending some tents and cots. He's miffed.
Now, if we had set up an Oil for Food program where he got some kickbacks...
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posted on
09/07/2005 3:44:39 AM PDT
by
Adder
(Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
To: JohnHuang2
As of yesterday there was 60,000 National Guard and US military troops helping with the Katrina disaster in LA, MISS, & ALA.
Source; D.Rumsfield on Fox News last night.
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posted on
09/07/2005 3:48:21 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(The New World Odor is UN-American)
To: JohnHuang2
I would call it criminal negligence on Blanco's part. She shopud resign and go into hiding. There is blood on her hands.
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posted on
09/07/2005 3:54:44 AM PDT
by
NetValue
(No enemy has inflicted as much damage on America as liberals.)
To: JohnHuang2
Now it begins to come out that the porcine faced Blanco was only interested in boodle from the Feds that she could squander. As to Nagin.........he is making himself into the worst sort of stereotype. If he keeps going, he will surpass Marion Barry (former mayor and "first felon" of Washington, D.C.) as a shameful example.
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posted on
09/07/2005 3:55:27 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: hoboken109
I hope someone forwards this information to Broussard who was squealing like a stuck hog. He wanted some heads to roll .
To: JohnHuang2
NOTICE TO VOTERS IN NEW ORLEANS....
When youse elect 4th rate talent, youse get 4th rate service...
Let me reiterate for the liberals....When youse elect 4th rate talent........
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Technically the mayor didn't need to wait for the governor to request more direct Federal involvement. He could have begun to mobilize and enact the emergency plans the mayor's office has on file. The school and municipal transit buses are part of that plan for moving people out of the danger zones.
The mayor hesitated because he was afraid of angering his constituency. An enforced, mandatory evacuation would've forced out a lot of black Democrats, and this would've caused a great deal of backlash in the event that the hurricane did not cause as much damage as predicted.
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:00:01 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: JohnHuang2
Wow! Thanks for the ping.
This seems to confirm that the Friday in question on so many threads is the Friday before the storm.
If this is confirmed, it's no wonder the Democrats are going nuts.
The Governor did NOT request troops to secure the city BEFORE the event which would have surely alleviated some of the problems experienced.
Not that the troops would have been deployed to a hurricane area before the storm hit, but they would have been mobilized to move immediately in the hours after the storm passed through.
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:08:34 AM PDT
by
Peach
(South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
To: JohnHuang2
Bring on the investigations!
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:16:07 AM PDT
by
sirchtruth
(Words Mean Things...)
To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for posting this JH. Good stuff.
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:20:43 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(The Red States ... the world's only hope for survival.)
To: JohnHuang2
"The delay in requesting the necessary troops is inexplicable and there was no justification for it."
But it is explained in the WP story previously posted here. She refused to place the troops under federal control because she bizarrely "suspected a political motive" was behind the request, and feared that once in control, the feds would "blame" the state for anything that went wrong. She obstructed the emergency relief effort for purely political reasons.
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:24:52 AM PDT
by
Williams
To: sirchtruth
"Bring on the investigations!"
Hopefully, when the good people of LA figure out what really went down, they'll begin impeachment proceedings.
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:29:04 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(The Red States ... the world's only hope for survival.)
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:29:27 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
To: JohnHuang2
They just had a National guard spokesmen on Fox.I was only half listening while surfing Free Republic.
He stated that they were under the authority of the Governor and would go to where ever she directed.E.D Hill on the way to commercial said they will replay a statement that Gov.Blanco made on the show yesterday and added that she,Hill, is confused as to who is in charge.
The point is that with all the political mud being thrown at President Bush,the Governor is still in charge of the rescue,relief program.
Does the federal personal have any authority to operate outside of the Governors direction?
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:30:13 AM PDT
by
carlr
To: sirchtruth
We want an investigation by the Government Accounting Office and not the political hacks. No more 9-11 type committees.
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:31:10 AM PDT
by
BilLies
To: Williams
"But it is explained in the WP story previously posted here. She refused to place the troops under federal control because she bizarrely "suspected a political motive" was behind the request,"Williams:
Any chance you can provide a link? I'd like to read that story but I'm striking out using "search."
Incompetently yours,
The G Man
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:40:34 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(The Red States ... the world's only hope for survival.)
To: repubpub
From what my wife and I have ascertained, FEMA may be blamed for slowness in some situations (however let's wait for the whole story to unfold), but the primary responsibility for the disaster we concluded has to be the gov and the mayor accounting for about eighty percent of the problems after the levees broke.
Any storm of this magnitude will cause problems that cannot be handled as well as desired by any person or any agency no matter how well planned. However Blanco and Nagin HAD!!!!! the authority and resources to sufficiently mitigate the terrible effects of the flood. If they had used the resources they had with just a modicum of competence, the suffering of the people affected by the flood would have been a lot less. In our minds, the feds only get about ten percent blame for the problems after the flood.
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:40:36 AM PDT
by
driftless
( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: The G Man
Here you go G Man, I had to get the link from someone else as well, searching never works for me. I think this article is a slam dunk "guilty" verdict on the governor:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476915/posts
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:46:11 AM PDT
by
Williams
To: Williams
Thanks. That was a good read.
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posted on
09/07/2005 4:49:48 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(The Red States ... the world's only hope for survival.)
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