[not_apathetic_anymore]

Why would she do this?

That's what I want to know.

Seems to me the answer is one of 2 things neither of which is very flattering: 1) gross incompetence 2)political gamesmanship to try and make Bush look bad. (Or some combination of the two)

[TX Bluebonnet]

I posted on another thread (with tin foil hat on) that maybe they were afraid if these really poor people were bussed out of the city, they might never come back - and for whatever reasons - political and/or financial they didn't want to do this.

A Cat 5 hurricane is headed your way and you live in a bowl shaped city below sea level. You choose NOT to implement your evacuation plan. When else would you ever use it if not for that time? Something is going on. I just don't know what.

[OKIEDOC]

Actually a local politician said the day after the dike broke that Blanco and the Louisiana Democrat party was engaged in a lot of serious pay back against Nagin.

Payback for supporting a Republican candidate in a state election.

I posted this on several threads and some called it just plain wrong.

Looking back at all that has taken place and the orders coming out of the governors office makes a lot of the decisions being made at the time seem plausible.

Leaving the Democrat plantation in Louisiana is almost like trying to leave the local mafia, it's a death wish.

[Freedoms Chaser]

Seems to me the answer is one of 2 things neither of which is very flattering: 1) gross incompetence 2)political gamesmanship to try and make Bush look bad. (Or some combination of the two)

I think it is #2...Everyone keeps saying La Government is stupid, but if it is #2 it was a brillant idea if it had worked according to planned. It will backfire Big Time...because the truth is going to come out, President Bush will be vindicated.... Thank God!