**I just think that a bit of decisive and competent local leadership and some elbow grease, as opposed to hand-wringing and buck-passing, might have saved some lives.***
As I've stated before, i believe the Mayor engaged in a massive amount of LAWSUIT AVOIDANCE, and now is completely over-whelmed by events.
The Governor sounds like she is finally growing some stones, but it's about 96 hours too late...
I think when this thing is finally analyzed over the next months and years, it is going to be a case study for municipalities of how NOT to do things...
Those require decisions. She's been in full passive-aggressive mode at least since the weekend, and possibly last Saturday and Sunday.
http://www.ptypes.com/passive-aggpd.html
"Here is a hypothetical profile, in terms of the five-factor model of personality, for Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder (speculatively constructed from McCrae, 1994, pg. 306):High Neuroticism
Chronic negative affects, including anxiety, fearfulness, tension, irritability, anger, dejection, hopelessness, guilt, shame; difficulty in inhibiting impulses: for example, to eat, drink, or spend money; irrational beliefs: for example, unrealistic expectations, perfectionistic demands on self, unwarranted pessimism; unfounded somatic concerns; helplessness and dependence on others for emotional support and decision making.
High Extraversion
Excessive talking, leading to inappropriate self-disclosure and social friction; inability to spend time alone; attention seeking and overly dramatic expression of emotions; reckless excitement seeking; inappropriate attempts to dominate and control others.
Low Openness
Difficulty adapting to social or personal change; low tolerance or understanding of different points of view or lifestyles; emotional blandness and inability to understand and verbalize own feelings; alexythymia; constricted range of interests; insensitivity to art and beauty; excessive conformity to authority.
Low Agreeableness
Cynicism and paranoid thinking; inability to trust even friends or family; quarrelsomeness; too ready to pick fights; exploitive and manipulative; lying; rude and inconsiderate manner alienates friends, limits social support; lack of respect for social conventions can lead to troubles with the law; inflated and grandiose sense of self; arrogance.
High Conscientiousness
Overachievement: workaholic absorption in job or cause to the exclusion of family, social, and personal interests; compulsiveness, including excessive cleanliness, tidiness, and attention to detail; rigid self-discipline and an inability to set tasks aside and relax; lack of spontaneity; overscrupulousness in moral behavior.
Character Weaknesses and Vices*
procrastination
argumentativeness
dilatoriness at work
querulousness
obstructionistic behavior
scornful of authority
resentful of suggestions
"forgets" obligations
unaware of being incompetent"
IMO Blanco is the last female governor Louisiana will have for a long time - perhaps the rest of this century.
And, when her conduct in this crisis is analyzed, there is a reasonable possibility that this will result in no female governors being elected unless they have first demonstrated "macho" executive abilities. Most likely taht will take the form of military service, i.e., which pretty much limits the field to female Republican veterans.