A few days after the storm I read from Blanco's chief of staff saying they wouldn't turn it over to the feds because then the feds could blame them.
All about politics all the time.
Grant,... asking if Blanco would be attending a Washington service ... If she didn't... "We'd love to have someone like ... Chertoff attend a service with her."
For the state's part, Blanco's chief of staff ... e-mailed employees ... saying they needed to get national supporters to say "that the federal response was anemic" and asked them to point out budget cuts to levee programs.
AP trying to be "fair and balanced" by first stating some inoccuous PR thing by the Bush Admin as if it offsets a clearly damning email on the part of the Blanko admin to blame the feds.
"national supporters"
The AP writer and editors are showing just how much they march for the dems. The actual words described in the papers released on Friday "..our national surrogates.." and clearly the MSM responded, and as this shows, they continue to. See an earlier article about this in the Times Picyaune and posted here on FR.