[Thud]

Corrupt cities get corrupt mayors and die from it. Mayor Nagin can declare martial law (aka suspend habeus corpus) and ask for federal military assistance too, but only for New Orleans. Governor Blanco can do so for New Orleans and all the other flooded areas, even when their mayors won't.

But neither will act.

My point about Blanco is, however, that she will be blamed for acting like a weak woman because she is female, even though Nagin has done exactly the same thing. Nagin hasn't cried on camera. Blanco did, so IMO future female gubernatorial candidates just took a hit.

Tough. These two have the duties, and won't do them.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Well.. if I was Governor I wouldn't be crying, I'd be working to hard to spend so many hours a day before a camera like Blanco and Landrieu. You may get a phone call to Haley Barbor, but he's not spending an hour on Larry King... he's working!

[Cedar]

"Nagin hasn't cried on camera. Blanco did"

As I remarked yesterday, strong grown men leaders cried at 9/11 disaster.

So it's okay if Blanco shed some tears too.