[Miss Marple]

Recap of Blalnco with my interpretations:

1. She wants President Bush to "change the rules" so that the complete salaries of police and firemen will be paid by the federal government. She says the parishes are not getting any income so they have run out of money.

COMMENT: First of all, I believe the "rules" she wants the President to change are actually LAWS, and she is either ignorant of this or is trying to make the President the bad guy when he doesn't comply.

2. She doesn't like the vouchers being given to Louisianans in other states. She wants the government to pay for full-service hotels and motels in Louisiana so that people can come home.

COMMENT: The Rats are really afraid that their base has been scattered to the four winds and that they will lose power in the next election.

3. She also said that the priority should be to build New Orleans "safer." By safer she means taller levees, and asked the President to make that a priority.

COMMENT: Until they fill in the flooded areas with about 20 feet of compacted soil and raise the elevation, higher levees aren't going to be doing much to make the city safer. I will vigorously oppose the reconstruction of New Orleans below sea level, and I will campaign to keep money for any reconstruction of levees from those levee boards. Too much money gets siphoned off for non-levee expenditures (such as the Landrieu family's campaign war chest).

Blanco gave me the impression she was reading a script, no doubt written by her newest employee,James Lee Witt.

[Palladin]

Someone please clue in Blanco that we are a nation of LAWS, not RULES.

She is still in Kindergarten mode.

[oceanview]

correct on all counts. she is under control of the DNC - and I continue to assert, she was under orders from the DNC to "go slow" on the immediate aftermath of Katrina, to make the federal response more difficult, so they could blame Bush for it.

[Revel]

"1. She wants President Bush to "change the rules" so that the complete salaries of police and firemen will be paid by the federal government. She says the parishes are not getting any income so they have run out of money."

Well if the federal government has to pay for everything then why do we do the next best thing and federalize NO and move Washington DC right down there.

[gswilder]

Can you imagine what Blanco and the other dems will want to do during the next major LA election. They are going to want everyone who as displaced to be able to vote absentee. Or maybe they will want polling places setup in TX at the Astrodome.