[moog]

While I too would probably say that Blanco and the mayor were probably to blame for most things and maybe some lack of federal management, I am just tired of all the politicing of everybody. It was a tragedy that we all need to learn from. There have been some good things, there have been some bad things. Let's learn from it all and prepare for it. Let's focus on what we need to do to deal with the current situation rather then armchair quarterbacking. Hindsight is always 100%.

It seems anytime something happens, then it degenerates into a bunch of "love-spats."

[Miss Marple]

Mike, I have been thinking about this all night. I have been upset about the Superdome since the hurricane was approaching; I told my husband then that I couldn't believe they had NO plan for removing the poor from the city, and werre really abandoning them to their fate.

I think the Rats are attempting to execute a plan they have had in place since right after September 11.

First of all, we need to remember the massive Rat effort made to get FEMA wrapped into Homeland Security. After the President yielded to the whines of the 911 widows (the Jersey Girls) there was still a big fight about whether or not unions would have a voice in the new department. I think the unions won on that one, if I remember correctly.

Shortly after the new department was established, the democrats started pushing the idea that the President was week on domestic security. First Hilary started saying that there wasn't enough money for first responders. Following this, Senator Graham (who was sitting on the Intelligence Committee at the time) said that the Iraq War was endangering us domestically and we weren't spending enough on Homeland Defense. Then Kerry won the nomination and we heard him griping about lack of security in the ports. This was when Berger was caught removing classified stuff from the archives.

I believe that the democrats had a plan to blame the President for the next terrorist attack. I think Graham had some sort of intelligence access that an attack was likely (remember Dick Cheney even said as much shortly after 9/11). It seems likely to me that Intelligence showed that there were plans to use a nuke through one of the ports. New Orleans seems to be the most likely spot, since it has a huge amount of infrastructure and is the largest shipping port east of the Rockies.

Well, the attack didn't happen. The President has been so aggressive in fighting terrorism that either the Islamofascists were stopped, or they chickened out.

The hurricane gave the democrats the perfect opportunity. They are executing a plan identical to what would have happened if a dirty bomb had blown up in New Orleans. They would have "sheltered" all of the poor in the Superdome to "protect" them from radiation, and then set about obstructing rescue efforts and blaming the President.

Look at how the usual suspects were immediately ready with accusations of racism. Look at how coordinated all of these attacks on FEMA are, and who is doing them.

The problem the democrats have is that if they had implemented this exact same plan after a dirty bomb attack, they might have succeeded. But with a hurricane, the element of warning and evacuation comes into play, and the state government actions prior to the arrival of the hurricane can be questioned.

I think this is why Blanco is dragging her feet to this very minute. And I think the Superdome was planned to go exactly the way it did.

I will now wrap another layer of tinfoil around my head and go make breakfast.