Posted on 03/03/2006 2:40:36 PM PST by ncountylee
So when are Kanye and Oprah and the rest of them going to start saying "Kathleen Blanco doesn't care about black people?" Ha ha.
Right on. Thanks for the post.
I wonder if the AP is "stung" that they gave us the wrong information yesterday.
The old media and their party are deeply saddened. The real question is: Why was Bush taping the conversation? Was this part of his spying on Americans program?
I don't care what the report was. If you have a big honkin' hurricane heading toward your below-sea-level city, you get out. What's so difficult?!?""
Perhaps haveing the brains to understand what "below sea level" means.
Blanco is dumber than dirt....but the Louisinas would vote for her again. I.m sure!!
I just read in the Baton Rouge paper that revenues were higher than expected, so she wants to use it to give teachers a pay raise! Forget that the federal government is spending billions on her state, she's going to use a surplus to satisfy the teacher's unions.
We had reports here in Houston of NOLAns who had left early on Saturday and Sunday, driving over here to stay in hotels or with family/friends and MANY of them getting calls from their security companies back home that all the alarms were going off, looters had already started breaking in.
Alors!Les incompetents!
I am not surprised.
This native New Orleanian KNOWS that most of the country considers us low class, ignorant and disposable. What the rest of the country doesn't fully appreciate is that the rest of LOUISIANA feels the same way about New Orleans.
Privately, many fellow Louisianans are GLAD the city was decimated. And they know we know.
Another thing- the most obvious,IMO.
We can talk to men on the MOON!
We know when an asteroid hits the moon. We can communicate with men in subs under the Arctic shelf.
But Baton Rouge can't communicate with New Orleans during/after a storm? Baton Rouge has no way of knowing if a levee is leaking or totally GONE only 90 miles away?
Sensors like those that measure the most minute of earthquakes can't be placed in levee structures?
First and foremost this is CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE on a local level!
Liberals and the media keep trying to make what was Blanco's responsibility be Bush's responsibility. At the time of the levee breach Blanco was in charge of every person in New Orleans. Any federal workers there were working in coordination with her orders.
Any reasonable logical person would have had the proper people in emergency management monitoring the levees immediately after the storm and reporting back to her because the levees were of paramount importance. Why was she standing up there giving we think, we hope, possibly could be, I dunno information to everyone when it was HER responsibility at that time to KNOW and relay that info to others. And if she didn't care or was too stupid to do that then you think at least Nagin would have had someone doing it because he was the mayor of the freaking city.
I'm convinced Blanco was getting instructions from DNC headquarters on how to handle the situation so that in the end it could be blamed on President Bush.
She royally screwed up.
...........And if she didn't care or was too stupid to do that then you think at least Nagin would have had someone doing it because he was the mayor of the freaking city.......
But, Nagin and his immediate administration, was holed up in a hotel room during and after the storm, trying to use a satellite phone with a dead battery. He was incommunicato for the height of the storm and for a day or so afterward, until one of them stole some batteries from an already looted store.
I don't know her approval rating, but I know there was a poll that had Jindal beating her by over 15pts.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco answers questions about the recent videotape of President Bush's pre Katrina briefing as she arrives in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Thursday, March 2, 2006. Six months after last year's hurricane, a 34-member congressional delegation led by the House's top Republican and Democrat arrived in Louisiana on Thursday to see the devastation up close. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Blanco giving comments on Bourbon Street in front of a strip bar. Perfect!
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