It has come to light that all during the night on Friday, September 2, the president of the United States was forced to “negotiate” with Governor Blanco for the lives of the suffering and dying people of New Orleans. She feared that allowing the federal government to take control would make her administration appear as though it had failed. How she would be judged was more important to her than the lives of those people who were dying in the squalor. How many died as Blanco maneuvered to protect her reputation?
The Posse Comitatus Act prevents, by federal law, the president of the United States from sending federal troops into any state without the direct request of the elected governor of that state. A frustrated President Bush could only stand by and watch as the horror unfolded until he received the request for help. Despite the finger-pointing at President Bush, there was little that he could do until he was formally asked for assistance. No matter how loudly the liberals scream, they know full well that the president was helpless to do much of anything.
Poor folks used as pawns
by: clecdick 09/02/05 02:38 pm Msg: 873172 of 873254
@@Many beleive that Kathleen Blanco's delay in asking for federal help was calculated . Was Blanco pressured by her party to delay her request with the hope of achieving political gain? But Kathleen Blanco appears to have guilt on her face. Did she do a dirty deed? Did she sacrifice lives for the liberal cause? Ironically, it was the votes from New Orleans that put her in office.
Just like Florida Governor Lawton Chiles back in 1992 Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco's refuse to immediately ask for federal help when Katrina devasted her state. Many think it was Hurricane Andrew and Lawton Chiles decision to delay to requesting federal help that was most responsible for George Bush losing to Bill Clinton in Nov 1992. Ading Bill Clinton was the manner in which CNN spun the Andrew devistaion for the nations viewing audience.
I believe that Louisiana's current governor went back to the liberals glory days of 1992 and took a page right out of the leftist play book.
Hurricane Andrew, as you know, devastated southern Florida in August 1992. Though the storm left an estimated 160,000 people homeless, and destroyed or damaged 82,000 businesses, Gov. Lawton Chiles initially refused to request federal aid to clean up the $30 billion worth of damage (far greater than the figure for the Northridge, California earthquake of 1994). It was not until Bush Transportation Secretary Andrew Card implored Chiles to request FEMA assistance that the governor asked for the region to be declared a disaster area. History now shows how valuable the the Chiles delay in requesting federal help was to the democrat party. Did history repeat itself?
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