Ladies and gentlemen of the jury ... I contend the this statement by the soon to be ex-governor, is proof that Ms Blank Blanco has nerver had an original thought of her own.
Build their gallows high
Posted on 09/09/2005 5:52:19 AM PDT by frankjr
...President Bush's senior advisers debated whether the president should speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control of the hurricane relief mission from the governor.
For reasons of practicality and politics, officials at the Justice Department and the Pentagon, and then at the White House, decided not to urge Mr. Bush to take command of the effort. Instead, the Washington officials decided to rely on the growing number of National Guard personnel flowing into Louisiana, who were under Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's control. ...
To seize control of the mission, Mr. Bush would have had to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows the president in times of unrest to command active-duty forces into the states to perform law enforcement duties. But decision makers in Washington felt certain that Ms. Blanco would have resisted surrendering control, as Bush administration officials believe would have been required to deploy active-duty combat forces before law and order had been re-established. ...
"Can you imagine how it would have been perceived if a president of the United States of one party had pre-emptively taken from the female governor of another party the command and control of her forces, unless the security situation made it completely clear that she was unable to effectively execute her command authority and that lawlessness was the inevitable result?" asked one senior administration official, who spoke anonymously because the talks were confidential. ...
"I need everything you have got," Ms. Blanco said she told Mr. Bush last Monday, after the storm hit.
In an interview, she acknowledged that she did not specify what sorts of soldiers. "Nobody told me that I had to request that," Ms. Blanco said. "I thought that I had requested everything they had. We were living in a war zone by then."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
How did that get by the NYT censor?
I certainly would not like to depend on the likes of her to protect my life/ensure my safety.
"Nobody told me that I had to request that..."
Maybe that is why you should have acceded to the President's request that the troops be federalized. You did not have a clue what you were doing.
Note to the nation: You get what you vote for...
Uff-da.
When all else fails, read the directions.
Wonder if Establishment "Conservative" pundits like Ingrham and Novak will stop siding with Moveon's "It's all Bush's fault" propaganda lie and start REPORTING these facts?
Must mean Gov. and Mayor incapacitated.
Bush told her she had to request it. Liar.
Dear Gov BLANKhead.. you're ignorance is only surpassed by your stupidity.
nobody is this stupid. remember that we are talking about a person who has risen to the governorship of a state. she cannot be this dumb. I still insist she got a call from the DNC to "go easy" on things, to make the FEMA response harder and allow the media and the Dems to blame Bush for the "failure".
Note she says she did that on Monday after the storm hit.
But on MONDAY New Orleans did NOT look like a war zone. On Monday Night everybody was talking about how New Orleans, and Loiusiana, had come out pretty well.
It wasn't until tuesday that the levy breaks made it clear the city was drowning, and we started to realise that the NO Police Department had evacuated themselves to safety and that the local officials had no plan to move people out of the dome other than to starve them out.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury ... I contend the this statement by the soon to be ex-governor, is proof that Ms Blank Blanco has nerver had an original thought of her own.
Build their gallows high
" Must mean Gov. and Mayor incapacitated."
Exactly, with proper planning, there is no reason why the police, fire, med had to be incapacitated. Arrangements should have been made to have them located at safe secure locations (the airport seemed to make it through ok).
Starring:
The Governor as SCARLETTE O'BLANCO, "Whatever will we do? Wherever shall we go? Oh well, tomorrow's just another day!"
and The Mayor Butterfly McNagin, "I don't know nuthin' 'bout savin' no babies!"
and The FEMA Director as Rhett Butterfingers, "Frankly, my dear, we don't give a damn!"..................
For the love of God, please help us Lord with such lame spin control attempts by the Left. Those guys continue to amaze me. I never need to turn the Comedy Channel on 'cause I'm still hurting from all my laughter at the Left.
That's not the real reason, I suspect, but it is apparently the one she's going with.
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