BLANCO'S FAILING ADMINISTRATION ... NYT TO THE RESCUE!

In Baton Rouge, no one is at the helm of Louisiana state government. Governor Kathy Blanco continues to demonstrate her unsuitability to hold office - and if she ever wins another election - it'll be for an office no higher than DOG CATCHER.

NEW YORK TIMES TO THE RESCUE!

Here's an article they published yesterday to portray her as a tough woman who is just misunderstood by us poor rednecks down here ...

After the Storm, She tries to mend State, and Career ...

Now if you look at this article - some of you will say "What's the problem Verc? Looks like they are just trying to be fair and balanced?"

Would that President Bush receive this kind of balance from the New York Times folks. Bush is blamed for things that NEVER happened and the NYT publishes the accusations in damning vernacular as the God's-honest truth.

Here we have a Governor, who is guilty of incompentance and negligence (case closed) - and the NYT thinks she deserves balance? Give me a break!

Let's recap here ...

Blanco is the Governor of a State with a city that scientists have said for years would be brutally mauled to death if even a CAT 3 hurricane hit it. She knew the forecast and the writing on the wall - YET SHE HAD ZERO PLAN AND WAS CAUGHT COMPLETELY FLAT-FOOTED BY KATRINA.

In order to deflect attention away from her incompetence - she turned to the typical Democratic strategy of first resort - BLAME BUSH! Libs will say that Bush is at fault. Well, I say this - Alabama was hit hard by Katrina - and Mississippi was DEVASTED by the storm - receiving much more damage than even Louisiana. Did their Governors blame Bush? No, they didn't. Their Governors were prepared and did their job. You don't hear anything about MS and AL being in chaos right now do you? You don't hear anything because they aren't. They're rebuilding and cooperating with the Feds and FEMA.

However, in Louisiana - chaos rules the day and folks - it's because of the little school-marm we elected to take the helm in Baton Rouge.

Blanco, facing the "ultimate storm" - the one they all warned us about - balked at ordering a Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans! Result - over a thousand dead. However, when presented with this fact while testifying before Congress - Blanco opted instead to complain about the 52 Louisiana soldiers who have died in Iraq. Proof that she's not only incompetent - but a card-carrying member in good standing with the Terrorist Rights Party (read: Democrats). Seems to me that Blaco has more in common with Cindy Sheehan than she does your average Louisiana voter.

Bush was blamed for not sending the National Guard in soon enough after the storm to maintain order. However, it was actually BLANCO who caused the resulting carnage after the storm when she BALKED ON ALLOWING THE TROOPS IN!

When the people of the State screamed to high heavens for Blanco to support the bill to get rid of the political hacks currently running the levee boards - and consolidate all of the boards into one - with REAL ENGINEERS and SCIENTISTS on it - BLANCO REFUSED TO SUPPORT IT!

I'm sorry, there's no defense for her here. It was the levees that FAILED that caused the death in NOLA - over a thousand folks. You'd think that even a rookie would recognize that the situation should get priority attention for reform. Not Kathy Blanco though - she's not smart enought to figure that out.

When the effort to consolidate the levee boards failed during the special session - Louisianan's were so pissed-off that they demanded Kathy Blanco call another special session of the legislature to approve it.

Kathy Blanco wouldn't do it ....

Until State Rep. Steve Scalise (REPULICAN) started getting on WWL Radio (AM 870) to berate her. Then he went out and started a petition drive to pressure the Governor into calling another special session.

Once Kathy Blanco got wind that Scalise already had 45,000 signatures and was picking up major steam - Kathy Blanco decides FINALLY to call for another special session. She hasn't announced when it will happen - hasn't even released an agenda of what it's going to be for. But she called it to save face anyway.

Folks, this is not the way a REAL GOVERNOR does business!

What is Blanco's response to all this criticism? Well according to the NYTimes she says ....

"Sometimes people think you are falling down when you are the only one standing".

Huh?

Forget that this, literally, is an untrue statement - and assume that its a metaphor of some type.

Is Blanco then saying that the whole world -- EXCEPT HER -- is wrong? Or at fault?

Who is this woman? The Pope?

She doesn't look like the Pope to me but she has a SCARY resemblance to Emelda Marcos in my opinion -- at least in her outrageous attitude and her dictatorial declarations. And speaking of declarations - she also took the right to vote from us by cancelling elections - indefinitely!

And my favorite line out of this NYT article is this one ...

"But she asserted that she was far tougher than her critics allowed, noting that when she used phrases like "locked and loaded," it was because she knew how to handle a gun."

???

First of all - every woman in the South knows how to handle a gun - it's nothing special. It's a little ironic that this statement comes from a woman who is a member of a political party that has, as one of it's top priorities - the elimination of the second amendment but ...

WHAT IN THE SAM HILL PROMPTS BLANCO TO BOAST ABOUT HER FIREARM EXPERTISE WHEN THE ISSUE IS A HURRICANE THAT FLOODED OUT HER BIGGEST AND MOST VALUABLE CITY???

This woman is from Mars folks - call the MIB - I'm deadfire sure of it!

We need to recall this woman folks - she will kill more of us than the storm did.

And oh, by the way - SHE STILL DOESN'T HAVE A PLAN FOR NEXT HURRICANE SEASON!

Yup - it could happen all over again.

Time to pull the school-marm off the field and put a real pitcher on the mound.