Okay, I am watching Blanco on CSPAN from today; did she really form a group called Family Recovery Group of Louisiana and ask Bush to funnel ALL "relief money" though them?
Is she nuts? Or is she trying to get that money in the hands of her people?
She wants people back, she wants to buy bus tickets home for people. She is approaching this like a social worker rather than a leader of a state. She is a ding bat.
Blanco just wants money to induce "her people" back into the state. She has this nightmare that "her people" might find jobs in Texas, and like the idea of living above sea level, and never come back. Dangling free housing is one way to try to do it.
Blanco has been over-playing a weak hand all week. IMO, this is one reason why Bush has dropped in. Notice his comment to that idiot reporter today, something to the effect: "I'm here to observe the interaction of state and local authorities".