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Blame for Blanco
Posted by Bill Time Magazine names Louisiana's Blanco one of America's worst governors: Failures aren't born. They're made. Before Hurricane Katrina, it wasn't the job of Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to plan for the evacuation of the elderly and poor from New Orleans. Afterward, she wasn't in charge of the federal response. But it was her job to give her constituents heart by looking decisive, steadfast and capable. Even if she wasn't. I'd take issue with the characterization that composure was her only unfulfilled responsibility. Even marking her a failure, Time neglects to mention that she was in charge of granting the Federal government authority to coordinate response within her state, and delayed that course of action because of procedural ignorance and political ass-covering: 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. Putting aside that ass-backwards logic (greater responsibility = less blame?), who was making political moves? Those trying to federalize an inadequate and splintered state and local response, or those who refused and delayed because they suspected political maneuvering behind the attempt? In the immediate post-hurricane aftermath, Goldstein covered this failure at great length. Despite Time's inadequate accounting of Blanco's inadequacies, the article's still another long nail in her political coffin. Posted by Bill at November 16, 2005 09:16 AM | TrackBack (0) Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsDo you enjoy Louisiana politics? 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