Blanco's 24 Hours

PunditGuy: Blanco's 24 Hours

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was interviewed on CNN Monday morning by Soledad O'Brien (transcript link at site), where he revealed that Gov. Kathleen Blanco met with President Bush aboard Air Force One to make a decision about the timing of a New Orleans relief/support response by the federal government. Bush told Blanco that he was ready to move with troops and relief immediately, but Blanco requested a delay of 24 hours. Nagin doesn't know why Blanco requested an additional day. All he knows is that more people died as a result of her decision.

Comments

[Isabell]

This is terrible news. How can everybody blame it on Bush with this kind of information? I'm sure they will find a way, they always do.

WTF? Is the Blanco not just her name but a description of her brain.

[TR]

I just read the transcript
what a joke
Why isnt the MSM publicizing this...

[pathenry]

WASHINGTON - The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region _ and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents.

Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims.

[clintcarter]

Flo, you out there? This is just what we were working out. I could't remember what thread it was.
I wanted to slap this woman.

[!]

Read the article. How disgusating !!

BLANCO NEEDS TO FIRED, ARRESTED FOR MURDER AND PUT ON TRIAL, ALONG WITH HER LOVELY MAYOR AS AN ACCESSORY TO MURDER.

You can never ever under estimate the power of mother nature !! Peoples lives first, power stuggle some other time if they just have to be !!

Sorry people. I hope the story about what really went down is know to the world !!

[angelaberdine]

I want to know why all those policemen who left the city were given three months pay and told to find jobs elsewhere (on Saturday).

[calista]

she is the brilliant one (eye roll) who told the msm that the military was "locked and loaded" and would be happy to shoot anyone interfering....yeah that helped things

[*flo*]

thanks Dan, couldn't verify this earlier, its true. Clint the link:

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2005/09/sunday_reading.html#comment-9120059

Dan is gonna kill us!

[angelaberdine]

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has been critical of the Bush administration's response to the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but, according to the mayor of New Orleans, her indecision when President Bush offered help delayed rescue efforts and cost lives. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin told CNN's "American Morning" Monday that he met with Mr. Bush and Mrs. Blanco on Air Force One on Friday and implored the two to "get in sync."

[clintcarter]

Thanks Flo.
Dan mad at us? Why?

[Patti Hyatt]

It's horrible that Gov. Blanco can't even run her own state. The minute they knew that hurricane was coming, she should have ordered the mayor to use school buses and city buses to get those people out of New Orleans before Katrina hit.

[usmcmom]

Governor Blanco as of today, Wednesday, is now saying the National Guard are NOT authorized to enforce the mandatory evacuation, even though Mayor Nagin is requesting them too... So I say... Lt General Honore, Sir... the first forced evacuation you need to make is in Baton Rouge and get Governor Blanco and Lt. Gov Landrieu and all the rest of her inept cronies the hell out of Louisiana. Locked & Loaded... that sorry excuse for a governor doesn't have a clue what she is doing.. and more people are going to die b/c of it.

[Ron]

Its the responsibility of ones self to take care of him are her in a threat of danger.Thats whats wrong with a lot of people now,dependent on goverment.They chose to live in a place thats below sea level and knew it wouldnt stand up.they where told to get out.I live in a tornado region of north La. I took responsibility to build me a storm shelter. They needed Common since, use it.No excuse to use the word can't are couldn't.

[dannyboy]

Isn't this a he said she said thing? This is third person and Nagin can't even remember what options were on the table:

And he said, "Mr. Mayor, I offered two options to the governor." I said -- and I don't remember exactly what. There were two options. I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.

there's no story here

[Ron]

STOP PEOPLE AND THINK!!!!!!Who makes these choices of where you live.Who takes care of you.YOU do, don,t blame the goverment.Thats what most of those there does,depends on the goverment,for most everything they have.As for as myself,I take care of ME.I donot depend on the goverment to build me a storm shelter.I chose to live where i do and i look out after me.I hear a tornado warning,i get in my shelter.I don't say i couldn't.

[Ron]

Now what you say

[anne096]

I know this sounds simple and almost redundant, but Blanco is and always will be an IDIOT! How she got elected is beyond me, but a re-election may not be in her future. This whole thing makes me sick. People in this position should not wait and see, but ACT!! HELLLOOOO, people's lives are at stake here. The time for "wait and see" should be buried with all those lost. Shame on this women.

[usmcmom]

I've been hearing various comments by US Senators/Congressmen, about FEMA and how it should be an autonomous agency... but as I recall...wasn't FEMA an autonomous agency, BEFORE the US Senate and Congress all clamored for it to be wrapped up into the Dept of Homeland Security b/c the all-seeing/all-knowing 9/11 Commission suggested it. Didn't they have to vote on the measure, or was it just talk and bravado back in those days that called for the merger... So now, these folks in Washington that all rallied for the merger..are complaining about the the extra levels of bureaucratic red tape that was placed upon FEMA, by the very merger they supported. What flippin idiots!!!

[Ron]

Your not getting it here,You got to have common since,you where told to get out,well duh.The goverment cannot sleep with you and baby sit.Do you need the goverment to wake you up in the morning and say,hello ,time to get up and go to work.USE common since here.Get the f-----k out.

[Isabell]

Ron- I get it! People need to take responsibility for themselves. If you depend on others for your safety and livelihood there is a good chance you will be left up sh*t creek without a paddle.

[Isabell]

Being a free country means we make our own decisions for bad and good situations. If the decision made turns out to be an extremely bad choice blaming it on the government or anyone else is just ridiculous. What a bunch of blame shifters. I know I wont hold my breath waiting for someone to pick me up and carry me through life and I don't think anyone else should either

[Ron]

Isabell well said, Now if we can get some more on this train of though are country will be great again.

[ParadigmShift]

They needed Common since, use it.No excuse to use the word can't are couldn't.

don,t blame the goverment.Thats what most of those there does,depends on the goverment,for most everything they have.

Your not getting it here,You got to have common since,you where told to get out,well duh.

USE common since here.Get the f-----k out.

Isabell well said, Now if we can get some more on this train of though are country will be great again.

Posted by: Ron | Sep 7, 2005

Ron, perhaps decaf or a few runs through Mavis Beacon may be of help.

[Ron]

paradigmshift are you with me are against me?

[clintcarter]

we're all just watching from a safe distance. ron.

[UseYourCellPhonesPeople]

Here's more proof that Blanco is a dimwit. She obviously doesn't even know the geography of her own state.
(Whisper: Would someone please tell these poor people that their governor forgot them, not the President?)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.forgottentown.ap/index.html

[Ron]

Poor hell, they had the goverment give them everything a lot didnt even want to leave on the busses that where brought there from churches from n louisiana because they had no A/C

[!]

People with nothing to hide, hide nothing. !

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