The American people aren't buying the smear campaign. The other websites I frequent show this and an ABC poll confirms it.
The White House is working towards strategic goals right now, goals that will affect the way that the next several years of effort are directed.
It will cost a hundred billion dollars, minimum, to rebuild New Orleans, and pumping that kind of money into Blanco's pockets is tantamount to flushing it down the toilet.
Bush is working to remove her incompetence from the equation and right now, that takes political compromise and maturity. It also takes precedence.
If he succeeds, she will become a political non-entity, a governor without a state or taxbase. If he does not succeed, then he will likely level the cannon and blow her out of the water with the well documented storm preparation and storm response failures at the state and local levels.
Looks past the shrill, Bush bashing media, and see that their very hysterics are an indication of just how scared they are.
The Left is about to lose an entire state, they know it, the media knows it, and all the emotional outbursts they can produce will not change the facts which have already been recorded.
With every day that aid increases in flow into the stricken areas, these attempts to cover up the corrupt and self-serving practices that have become a way of life in Louisiana government are running out of ammunition.
When the time is right, they will be overrun.
Looks past the shrill, Bush bashing media, and see that their very hysterics are an indication of just how scared they are.
The Left is about to lose an entire state, they know it, the media knows it, and all the emotional outbursts they can produce will not change the facts which have already been recorded.
I sure hope this is the case, and would like to see it. But somehow I doubt something like this will happen.
And you, sir, are one smart freeper. I hope you're correct about the public not buying into the smear.
Viler than the smell of sewage-filled water is the stench of political corruption in NOLA that goes back a hundred years and more. With this new Katrina impetus, I'm sure that reporters with squads of research assistants are documenting it as we speak. Books will be written -- perhaps the only honest money that will be made out of this debacle.
Long ago, at the beginnings of the "women's lib" movement, a wise woman wrote, "Given the same opportunities, women will make the same mistakes as men." To which I add, they'll become just as corrupt.
Here in WA state, corrupt US senator Patty Murray drags billions home from the federal government to fund still more "studies" to investigate ways to improve public transportation. Money is lavished on consultants who come up with useless plans so riddled with problems that there's nothing to do but hire more consultants. The consultants contribute millions over the table and who-knows-how-much under the table to Murray, and she finagles more federal bucks to fund them. But nothing ever gets built. Like Blanco, Murray hides behind a facade of a bumbling, not-bright, but sincere mom who wants to help.
I can only imagine NOLA twenty years from now with nothing but piles of studies to show for the billions of federal bucks pumped in. Scam City.