Kathleen played a political game when people were going to die. She and Mary are not terribly bright. I suspect that when this started to come down, she got advice from some dem people and she was not clever enough to play the game.
And I still say, Blanco/Landrieu were thwarting Nagin because he is on their s@@@ list because he went off the plantation to be elected and he was exposing stuff in NO.
But I won't fight the battle for that point anymore.
Blanco and Landrieu were in way overe their heads, way over. They are dumb and venal. And they know what they did, look at their faces, they know they did wrong. Mary is twitching a mile a minute and her face in repose looks crushed. Blanco can barely keep it together, she is on the verge of tears constantly.
If you ever wanted to see a person who did wrong and knows it, look at those two women.
I think you're right, but I can't say that Nagin is an innocent genius cast wrongly by the evil governor, which I think she is, but he's just not quite Mensa material on his own, now is he?
From my distant vantage point, I'm willing to guess that Blanco and Landrieu didn't just make this one massive screw-up to compensate for a lifetime of superior performance, yes?
Shaking the catsup bottle half an hour before removing the cap is a regular thing, hmm?
Okay, well, then here's an easy way to play it all out, without even dividing the country any worse than it already is.
Give her a couple tens of millions to play with and just sit back and watch.
She'll obey her native leopard spots and hand us a reason for federalization in due time, and the same media that's carrying her now will be the prime movers screaming for her head.
Dunno if you locals can stand living under federal jurisdiction for a while, but we will give Iraq back when it'ssafe to do so and they have a lot more oil than Louisiana does.
Your options are kind of thin otherwise.
New casinoes and Fantasy Island out in the Lake, shiny new levees that fold up like accordions in a 90 mph wind and a five foot surge, and a whole bunch of missing money, red ink and fingerpointing if she stays. You know it, we know it, the media knows it, they just like bashing Bush.
But it pretty much is going to be up to the people who live there.
Nobody is going to stand for federal troops roughing you all up, nightsticking rioters who just want their favorite governor back.
So what's it going to be?
Which does the average New Orleans-ander want more.
Blanco?
Or New Orleans?