Oh my GOD.  Incompetence killed those people, plain and simple.

Fuck it.  The cocksuckers want to play politics with a tragedy?  Fine.  Let’s play.  I’m tired of taking the high road. 

Argue this one, moonbats.

Date: 9/1/2005

Contact:Denise Bottcher or Roderick Hawkins at 225-342-9037

Governor Blanco Announces Executive Order

Baton Rouge, LA— Governor Blanco today announced the following Executive Order:

Executive Order NO. KBB 2005- 31- provides that pursuant to the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29:721, et seq., grants emergency powers to the governor, where, she has in consultation with school superintendents, utilized public school buses for transportation of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. As you are aware most public school districts will not begin school until Tuesday, September 6th 2005.

Why the FUCK wasn’t this order issued on 8/26?  Or even 8/28 when they goddamned well know Katrina was coming and coming HARD?  How about on 8/29 when it was manda-fucking-tory to evacuate and the entire fleet of buses sat.  There were hundreds of thousands of residents who could have driven the damned buses up until the mandatory evacuation...Go ahead.  Explain that piece of incompetence to me.  I fucking dare someone to come up with a reason.  Find a way to blame Bush for why this order wasn’t issued until the goddamned first of September.

Blanco didn’t even want to order the goddamned evacuation BY THE FUCKING WAY.  Bush asked her to do it.  And she fought the federalization of the relief.  The same fucking assholes who are now using this to play partisan politics and screaming that the feds aren’t doing enough or doing it fast enough were fighting the President taking it over.

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state’s emergency operations center said Saturday.

The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. “Quite frankly, if they’d been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals,” said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

A senior administration official said that Bush has clear legal authority to federalize National Guard units to quell civil disturbances under the Insurrection Act and will continue to try to unify the chains of command that are split among the president, the Louisiana governor and the New Orleans mayor.

Louisiana did not reach out to a multi-state mutual aid compact for assistance until Wednesday, three state and federal officials said.

C’mon, moonbats.  Explain this away.

Posted by JimK at 10:47 PM on September 04, 2005
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