I am the lone voice in the wilderness for Nagin. I don't know him but have watched him. And he is good. But in Louisiana, when you cross the dem machine, you have to watch your back forever.
Jindal is careful not to antagonize people here.
And I have to face it, Louisiana is a socialist state and has been since the time of Huey Long, who incidentally fired my father once. For teaching a civics class about how bills were passed in the legislature and for pointing out Long was bypassing the constitution. He was fired the same day. The Long machine was powerful.
IMO, "good" people don't do things like that.
There have been a few of us giving some cautious and limited support. I think there is a lot more to the story than what we're seeing in the MSM and each move by Blank-o exposes her interference. I think he knows he is too dependent on Blank-o to fight back right now but I suspect that when he is free to unload, it will be nuclear. That's not to say he didn't make any mistakes - he did, big time. But I suspect his share of the blame is much smaller that we're being led to believe. As for Blank-o, I give you Article IV, Section 18 of your constitution.
I would not have agreed with you earlier, but as more and more bits and pieces of the puzzle have come to light I have pretty much come to the same conclusion. Don't know if I would classify Nagin as "good", but I now believe he was caught in a trap.
Jindal is careful not to antagonize people here.
I posted this take on that subject earlier: I have spent a lot of time in Louisiana. What we are seeing in Jindal's action is him "closing ranks" with the people of Louisiana against outsiders, i.e. all the rest of us who are pointing out that they were woefully unprepared for this disaster.
This transcends political parties, and is a consequence of what pop psychologists call projection of the collective guilt they are feeling. Regardless of what they say, they know that the state of Louisiana, collectively, screwed-up big-time, but their pride will never allow them to admit it in the face of criticism from outsiders. A corollary of this is that any Louisiana politician who breaks ranks and "betrays" his state by agreeing with those outsiders is dead meat in Louisiana politics.
Jindal knows this, and knows that if he doesn't go along his political aspirations in LA are over.