Had the socialists in the country not been so eager to bash this President and had Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin done their jobs and the news not been so bogus in their reporting the truth of the tangled political morass in Louisiana and what was actually happening in New Orleans, could have spared the country – nay the world, this sordid spectacle of the thoroughly corrupt Third World welfare state of Louisiana.
The lessons learned were invaluable – FEMA is NOT a first responder nor is Washington, D.C. Where ever the crisis, the STATE is the First Responder. Mississippi and Alabama were well prepared as Florida had been in the days before; all the former were hit just as hard by Katrina but followed their emergency plans.
Not to minimize the pain, suffering, and loss of the citizens of Louisiana, those people had better grow up and find a new form of Government, one where they share in the responsibilities rather than expect money for doing nothing for themselves – the Democratic party has shown their egregiousness of keeping many citizens on the Plantation for generations while reaping billions of federal tax dollars to keep the elected fat and happy when those $$ should have been fixing the levees and lifting the citizens off /out of bondage. Mary Landrieu has been on the levee board for over 25 years….whose fault is it Miss Mary?
Blanco's office scrambled to spin Katrina....send to everyone you know.
Please excuse the rant............
And firing Brown was tantamount to admitting the "sixteen words" shouldn't have been in the SOU address even though they were true.
This administration has been backpeddling since the election in 2000. Karl Rove is no genius.