Thanks for that info. Governor Blanco had the power and responsibility to deliver food and water. If that is the case and the troops were under her control, why is the President at fault for failure to deliver water for three or four days? Why is the President at fault for the transportation failures?
" If that is the case and the troops were under her control, why is the President at fault for failure to deliver water for three or four days? "
Because the members of the media are morons.
All day Andrea Mitchell was ranting about why President Bush didn't call in the NG earlier.
Ted Koppel seems to have gotten some enlightenment over the past 24 hours- tonight, he was grilling the local Dem congressman as to why Blanco didn't exercise her constitutional authority regarding alerting and mobilizing the NG. The answer was gobbeldy gook.
President Bush was boxed into a corner-imagine the firestorm if he had said on Monday- I'm taking over.
I also wouldn't be surprised to discover that when FEMA arrived, instead of being an adjunct to New Orleans emergency planning-they discovered they were the whole enchilada.