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Maybe I'm still naive.... I'm not yet cynical enough to believe the Governor planned it all to make Bush look bad or even to see him impeached.... I do believe Blanco was on a petty power trip of thinking she had to do everything her way, and her pitiful 'Rat ego helped her to blunder all over the place not deciding much of anything. I think it was more ego, inflexibility, panic and incompetence by the Governor than any conspiracy, but I'm certainly willing to be proved wrong! :^)

If Paul Begala, James Carville, and/or Howard Dean were pulling strings behind the scenes, they should be taken out and strung up like Mussolini...... btw, Carville IS the "ragin' Cajun" isn't he?? He probably has a pretty tight line to the Governor unless for any reason they don't get along.... you'd think Carville would take a strong interest in the politics of his home state....

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I've been slamming some of the "rumors and propaganda" (what we called it in the Air Force) by the news media (sad to say, Fox too) on a number of other threads for a few days now. Earlier I saw a report saying that FEMA (you know, Brown, Chertoff and Bush) stopped the relief from going in for the same reason we now "know" it was state officials.

My money is still on the delay being caused by the reluctance of officials to send in relief troops in a rising flood and to send in Red Cross workers to be shot at or robbed. I think that is what I would do.

Notice that the photo showing the flooded buses, as well as the flooded and not-flooded parts of New Orleans is dated 31 August, the Wednesday after Katrina hit. I wonder when they first learned they could go in without being drowned.