[jackieaxe]

Fiddling while New Orleans floods! Gee, ya think Einstein would want in on that conversation if he were alive today. Also, I say to those Democrats like Hillary and Harry "the Mean Moron" Reid; BRING (pregnant pause) IT (pregnant pause)ON!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now we find out President Bush offered to federalize the relief effort a day or two before the Hurricane, but the La gov said she needed 24 hours to make a decision, then never called back. Today we learned from the American Red Cross president that they were prevented from delivering food and water to the Superdome because the state wanted the people to leave New Orleans and this was viewed (feeding starving and thirsty people) as providing an incentive to stay. Talk about "compassion"! The mayor is a stupid moron. Apparently, he can't read the evacuation plan that directed city buses be used for an evacuation, nor can he read the law that puts the Gov in charge of the LNG.

Looking at the paragraph above, you'd think I was making this stuff up.

[Cboldt]

find out President Bush offered to federalize the relief effort a day or two before the Hurricane ...

Negative. That would be a very presumptuous power grab. The offer to organize the relief under Federal umbrella was made on Friday, Sept 2nd. A wwek before that, there was no disaster, and no certainty that Louisiana would suffer any more damage than it had handled before.

The languge in the WaPo article also indicates (but does not recite) Friday, September 2nd.