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Louisiana Governor Lashes Out at Bush
AP via SFGate ^ | 1/24/7

Posted on 01/24/2007 10:04:10 AM PST by SmithL

Gov. Kathleen Blanco angrily criticized President Bush on Wednesday for not mentioning 2005's destructive hurricanes in his State of the Union speech, and said Louisiana is being shortchanged in federal recovery funding for political reasons.

"I guess the pain of the hurricane is yesterday's news in Washington," Blanco said at a news conference.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: blanco; katrina
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To: SmithL

I went to a LA newspaper site and at the end of that article, it said that someone wanted Pres. Bush to federalize the coast of LA and MS. Pres. Bush would not because the governor of MS is a Republican instead of a democrat. Has anyone else heard anything about that?


41 posted on 01/24/2007 10:38:19 AM PST by MamaB (mom to an Angel)
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To: SmithL

"I guess the pain of the hurricane is yesterday's news in Washington," Blanco said at a news conference.

Last year's news, Hon.


42 posted on 01/24/2007 10:42:01 AM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...

I DARE you to bring that BS down here and try to pass that crap off. Please, I beg you. I know some Corps of Engineers folks that wold LOVE to chat with you.


43 posted on 01/24/2007 10:49:49 AM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Yesterday's news? HECK It's two year old news! How many Billion$ are we supposed to pour down the rat hole?


44 posted on 01/24/2007 10:57:55 AM PST by aumrl
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To: SmithL
If the tables were turned at AP and Reuters:

"Governor Kathleen Blanco, who forgot to activate the South Lousiana Evacuation Plan as a Cat5 hurricane bore down on New Orleans, despite being asked by the President to do so, today chided the President for forgetting to mention New Orleans and Huricane Katrina in his State of the Union address."

45 posted on 01/24/2007 10:59:20 AM PST by cookcounty (The "Greatest Generation" was also the most violent generation.)
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To: HarleyLady27

You only hear on the news that the airports are shut down.


46 posted on 01/24/2007 11:02:42 AM PST by wastedyears ("Gun control is hitting your target accurately." - Richard Marcinko)
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To: SmithL
President Bush has done more for YOUR state and than you, Big Blank-O.
47 posted on 01/24/2007 11:03:57 AM PST by msnimje (You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
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To: Brilliant

My thoughts EXACTLY!!! Well said......


48 posted on 01/24/2007 11:15:57 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: bluebeak
Bush was too busy leading the way for new taxes on employees who receive employee sponsored benefits.

Yeah, and the opposition has a great free market plan with no tax hikes...oh wait, they're going for HillaryCare. Never mind.

49 posted on 01/24/2007 11:19:08 AM PST by Mr. Silverback ("Safe sex? Not until they develop a condom for the heart."--Freeper All the Best)
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To: DustyMoment

He also faled to apologize for the heartbreak of psoriasis. Unfeeling bastard.


50 posted on 01/24/2007 11:21:32 AM PST by Mr. Silverback ("Safe sex? Not until they develop a condom for the heart."--Freeper All the Best)
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To: cookcounty
Blanco still sticks in my craw. She is far more culpable than Bush and Nagin combined. None other that Clinton FEMA star Jamie Whitt wrote the Evacuation plan the previous year and they had practiced it. Blanco, not Nagin, was the official responsible for activating it. Bush called and told her to activate the plan, but she said all Lousiana needed was.....money ($19 million, she figured would do the trick).

In the aftermath, Diane "Sister Suck-Up" Sawyer sat in a tent with none other than former Clintonite Jamie Lee Whitt, who under a $60,000 grant, wrote the South Louisiana Evacuation Plan, and Governor Blanco, the only government official charged with activating the plan.

As others in the tent whined about the lack of federal response, it did not occur to Sawyer to ask any questions of Blanco and Whitt except of the "how does it feel to be abandoned" variety. It was irresponsible journalism of the lowest variety.

Blanco is probably the worst governor in the history of the United States. It was she who abandoned the people to die in New Orleans, while assuring the President that heavier-duty help wasn't needed. And there are no reporters (as in zero) exploring her whereabouts and decision-making when the ball was in her hands.

51 posted on 01/24/2007 11:24:49 AM PST by cookcounty (The "Greatest Generation" was also the most violent generation.)
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To: SmithL
Someone needs to introduce a bill in congress cutting off any federal disaster funds to LA until the Governor apologizes and explicitly expresses her gratitude to the people of this nation for coming to the aid of her state.

This ungrateful bitch keeps passing the blame for her own incompetence and the unpreparedness of people in her state onto others.

It is not the federal government's responsibility to prepare a state for disasters.

It is not the federal government's responsibility to pay for damages due to natural disasters.

The federal government has provided aid because the state government was not able to meet it's obligations to it's people on it's own.

Instead of gratitude to the rest of the country that has funneled billions in tax dollars and private donations into her state, all we have heard is complaints and accusations that others aren't doing enough to help her state.

Her state rather than getting "ripped off" has received far in excess of what they "deserve", and a benefiting greatly from the generosity of the rest of the nation.

52 posted on 01/24/2007 11:26:36 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...

A question for you, double bacon genius burger: Where did the water come from that the levees failed to hold back? Was it transported there by Mr. Scott from on board the Enterprise? And who was responsible for evacuating all the folks who weren't evacuated and were in the path of the water when the levees broke? Here's a hint: Not the Corps of Engineers.


53 posted on 01/24/2007 11:26:52 AM PST by Mr. Silverback ("Safe sex? Not until they develop a condom for the heart."--Freeper All the Best)
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To: RexBeach
"Ms. Blanco should stop whining and start leading."

Whining is the only play she has. She's too stupid and too late to fix anything, and she's going to be grilled by a guv challenger soon.

So her only shot is to get her N.O., uneducated, thug, tax-sponging constituency mad at GWB and the gubmint again.

54 posted on 01/24/2007 11:43:54 AM PST by libs_kma (Monica blew while Al-Queda grew.....Oh well, Clinton happens!)
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To: libs_kma

The ice storm in Missouri had my power out for several days, there are trees down all over my yard...

WHERE IS MY GOVERNMENT DEBIT CARD!!!!

It hurts so bad to be old news. Good thing self reliance is an Ozark (was American)virtue.


55 posted on 01/24/2007 11:51:16 AM PST by fungoking
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To: SmithL

Yes, Blank-Oh is getting windy again. Geez! I hope Jindal beats the snot out of her in the next election.


56 posted on 01/24/2007 11:52:08 AM PST by fishergirl (Proud mom of an Iraq war veteran - to all our veterans Thank You and God Bless)
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To: Izzy Dunne

LOL!!


57 posted on 01/24/2007 11:52:28 AM PST by fishergirl (Proud mom of an Iraq war veteran - to all our veterans Thank You and God Bless)
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To: My2Cents

You're right! And not from the people who suffered from Hurricane Rita either.


58 posted on 01/24/2007 11:54:49 AM PST by fishergirl (Proud mom of an Iraq war veteran - to all our veterans Thank You and God Bless)
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To: kaehurowing

Probably a lot, they're pros at it. I'm wondering where the heck all the charitable donations went, all the so called "stars" that raised a ton of money for N.O. Don't hear much about that.


59 posted on 01/24/2007 11:56:53 AM PST by fishergirl (Proud mom of an Iraq war veteran - to all our veterans Thank You and God Bless)
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To: Brilliant
Bush asked her to turn over control to him just before the hurricane, when it might have accomplished something. She refused to do so, and as a result, New Orleans was wiped off the map.

C'mon now. N.O. is not wiped off the map, and the flooding there would have been just the same irrespective of who had "control" in the moments Katrina hit. Let's calm down a bit here.

60 posted on 01/24/2007 11:58:49 AM PST by rogue yam
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