Posted on 09/07/2005 3:35:54 PM PDT by NickatNite2003
Just heard on FOX that Blanco refused to allow supplies to be brought to the stadium, "Because they wanted all those people to leave, and they didn't want to create a magnet to bring others there, by bringing in food and water!"""
"Deliberate, calculated" so truly in keeping with the permanent Machiavellian ops plan of Hillary & Co.
It did not take much longer than the eye to pass by than for anyone plugged in to realize that Louisiana Democrats had already screwed up on a national scale -- no evac order until too late, no state or local reliance on any kind of a disaster plan, buses under water, you name it.
National Dems immediately assessed no positive defenses available to give a tearful Blanco any excuse, and instead went for the tried-and-true out of the DNC/Hill/MSM playbook -- Flood The Zone. (Pun unintended, although the irony is not wasted.)
The DNC/Hill/MSM unleashed a co-ordinated fax/talking points finger-pointing campaign at Bush at about the same moment Blanco was ordering her state people to turn away the Red Cross from the Superdome.
And yet again, the DNC/Hill/MSM failed, and yet again their failure is fully encapsulated on FreeRepublic. But this time, their inherent lead-time advantage for making accusations could not even carry their rancid lies one full news cycle. I think that's remarkable.
Even in the epic scope of a natural disaster, people in pajamas trumped billion-dollar media organizations and their cohorts in the Democrat Party.
Thanks for the ping.
Thank you! Somebody gets it.
I'm going to make a guess that Landreneau is a decent man and is not going to take the blame for Blanco.
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Mary Landrieu is going to end up punching a lot of people before this is over.
Thanks, I've been bookmarking all these threads. There is a 'volume' of information about Blanco and Nagin!
I heard that she was objecting to rescuers "toting bibles" and otherwise proselytizing, this even of the NG. If true, I withdraw my claim that she should be impeached. She should be tarred and feathered, and then thrown into the nearest swamp. Only problem is that good crocs would probably spit this useless POS out onto the shoreline, and she'll crawl back into politics once again. Looks like she is LA's equivalent of the Beast from Chappaqua.
Bingo! Blanco is just a flunkey, used by the DNC as a monkey wrench in the federal machine. They used her as a tool to sabotage federal efforts, in order to get Bush. Those who call Bush "Hitler" have shown themselves to be the ones deserving that title... but then, the Left ALWAYS accuses the Right of being exactly what it itself is.
Lies... slander... calumnies... Now add mass murder to the methods of the DNC. They must be stopped, or else it'll become their SOP.
Nagin doesn't have the "right stuff" to be mayor of a Crack House.
I've got a suspicion you are right. I hope you are right. I'd hate to think that Mary M. could be in love with, and married to someone who wasn't basically a good guy, even if he is misguided politically. There comes a time though, that folks who are basically good have to have their eyes opened and can no longer stomach political shenanigans (regardless of party affiliation) especially at the expense of human lives. Maybe he's waiting to learn the facts, or maybe he's just staying out of it because he can't bring himself to "stoop that low", as you said.
LA politics is a cesspool, but I don't think they can ever get this genie back into the bottle. They might have had a chance if the national 'Rats hadn't started up their smear campaigns before Katrina had even passed north, but now the Republicans will truly be INSANE if they do not insist upon the most thorough investigation possible. No more 9/11 Omission Commission whitewashes, either -- if the Republicans do not recognize and fully counter the political war-to-the-death that the 'Rats have launched now then I will have to swear off paying any attention to politics forever.
Yeah, I've been wondering a lot about his silence, 'cause usually he can't shut up and after all he is the "Ragin' Cajun" -- I suspect he's just been gathering info and waiting for the right time to pile on -- if he knows that the 'Rats are heading for a catastrophe of their own then he'd be doing everything possible to shut them up, and he's so well wired into the party that I would think he could have headed this off if he'd tried. So, I suspect he was waiting for the right moment to try to take down Bush with the "final blow" but now he will have to start desperately spinning to save his own 'Rats in LA..... not to mention the national party -- that clip that Fox played of Patrick Leahy shamelessly denouncing the failure to send truckloads of food and water to the Superdome and Convention Center can be used against the 'Rats for years to come.
First: Nagin (failure to implement the evac plan).
Second: Blanco (failure to bring in the National Guard)
Third: Blanco (failure to coordinate with the Feds)
Fourth: Blanco (failure to obtain financing for levee upgrades)
fifth+: Blanco (failure to etc.)
You are absolutely correct. The Governor has the primary responsibility. Hopefully, despite President Bush's good graces, this truth will come out for all to see.
I love it when they get that 'deer in the headlights' look.
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