Blanco: Body Recovery Taking Too Long

Associated Press ^ | Sep 13 2:41 PM US/Eastern | Associated Press

[Tulsa Ramjet]

NEW ORLEANS

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco lashed out at FEMA on Tuesday, complaining the agency is moving too slowly in recovering the bodies of those killed by Hurricane Katrina.

The dead "deserve more respect than they have received," she said at state police headquarters in Baton Rouge.

She said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency still has not signed a contract with the company hired to handle the removal of the bodies, Houston-based Kenyon International Emergency Services.

Calls to a FEMA spokesman in New Orleans and the Homeland Security Department in Washington were not immediately returned.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Can somebody please tell me what is the role of the state governor when there is a bunch of dead bodies in her state? Is she for real? She needs to give Nagin a call in Dallas and see if he can manage by email.

Can she not open a phone book and start calling all the mortuaries to start helping out? Oh yeah, all their hearses are parked next to the buses. My bad.

Her re-election campaign speech: "Elect Blanco. Tan, rested, and clueless."

[xcamel]

She should "Bunny Up", and go into the stinking mass and get them herself.

[Americanwolf]

Were all asking what her role is....

She has done nothing but been a whinning mouth piece.

[jdm]

"Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco lashed out at FEMA on Tuesday"

[johniegrad]

The dead "deserve more respect than they have received," she said

The governor is the ultimate "straight man" for any aspiring comedian.

[ncountylee]

Fitting as she is responsible for some of the dead.

[hlmencken3]

Duplicate from a few hours ago.

[Callahan]

This sow blabs just to give her something to do. She's useless.

[pipecorp]

Remember: Blanco means rich affluent whitey.

[Americanwolf]

I would say that both her and nagins inactions prior to the storm and following are responsible for the deaths and not FEMA's response.

[digger48]

I thought we were supposes to be mad that the feds were signing contracts.

any relationship between Blanco and Kenyon Enterprises?

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Truly my bad.

[SERKIT]

Can she not open a phone book and start calling all the mortuaries to start helping out?

There are resources via EMAC (the state-to-state mutual aid method) for something called D-MORT which is Disaster Mortuary Services. It's a phone call away. It is very apparent that a governor can't take 24 hours to make each and every decision. Rapid thinking and fall-back to the written plan is what makes it or breaks it. Case in point Mississippi vs. Louisiana.

[hsalaw]

To Blanco, the dead are more important than the living. Or perhaps, since they don't have to have water, food, security from the military, etc., they're easier to deal with.

[radar101]

Governor Bitch&Moan

[johniegrad]

Leave it up. A lot of people probably didn't see the other one.

[EagleUSA]

She has done nothing but been a whinning mouth piece.
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Probably receiving daily talking point lists from Nazi Pelosi and Barbara Boxer...all about at the same intellect level...

[andyk]

The dead "deserve more respect than they have received," she said at state police headquarters in Baton Rouge.

She said...not sensing the irony of her pathetic statement.

[cricket]

Incredible! typical lib rant; without any connection to reality. Did we not just read, yesterday. . .that the Marines were frustrated if not furious, that Blanco would not allow them to 'enter' homes; but rather . .only look through windows/doors to find victims; dead OR alive.

Guess that did not look too good in print. . .and so this is her crafted response. . .

. . .another lying attack on the Bush Feds - for the purpose of her saving the impossible; her face.

[Americanwolf]

I would not doubt that she is getting her marching orders form Comrades Polosi, Boxer, and lets not forget Hitlery Clintoon... OOOOH HOW I HATE THE CLINTONS.....