Washtington Times MEGA PING!!
BUSTED!
Blanco should be hounded from office.
To the dismay of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the governor told the president she wanted 24 hours to decide whether to accept the offer because Mr. Bush, as commander-in-chief, wanted control of the troops. Many of the governor's constituents died because of the delay.....I think we found at least 24 hours that could have saved thousands of lives.....
What timing, I was just having a discussion with a co-worker about who did or didn’t do what and when. She insisted that the Governor couldn’t declare areas as disaster areas or do anything with Federal aid because of some Homeland Security red tape by W. She seems to be pretty sad about my finding.
getting closer and closer to the truth....
Blanco has no useful purpose remaining so why not get the impeachment hearings started.
Louisiana state government is historically the most corrupt in the United States. They set the bar, I know I've dealt with them secondhand.
She only needs 130 mil? Send it to her and be done with her.
I am also concerned that there was a rush to commit troops without a clear exit strategy from what will most certainly become a quagmire, especially when the water lowers even further....
As investigations determine local and state incompatence you are going to hear a whole lot of democrats squeel like stuck pigs.
Mainly a democrat bastion, Lousiana is stocked by democrats. They will try to steer responsibility towards Mr. Bush.
In reality the Mayor and Governor are in way over their skill levels.
Bump. Rush aired this segment yesterday.
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.
I would call it criminal negligence on Blanco's part. She shopud resign and go into hiding. There is blood on her hands.
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.
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.
Bring on the investigations!
Thanks for posting this JH. Good stuff.
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.