[ncountylee]

Her performance yesterday cost LA big bucks. IMO

[kentj]

Dam hell dam where are all the Roops, shut up - dam hell dam - we more roops and we need them right now - dam hell dam.

Thank you Mayor for your testimony

[MplsSteve]

If Blanco doesn't retire, I think she has more to fear (electorally) from her fellow Democrats than from the GOP in Louisiana.

[EagleUSA]

It is up to the people of Louisiana to clean house -- if they still want these liberal corrupt maggots (the so-called governor and mayor) to continue to destroy their state, THEN LET THEM PAY THE FREAKIN' BILLS --- not the rest of the U.S. taxpayers!!!!

[F16Fighter]

Blanco and Nagin, both Democrats... shift[ed] blame [of holding the bag] to the federal government.

Their Republican questioners stuck more closely to the committee’s actual purpose, which is to study the development, coordination, and execution by local, state, and federal authorities of emergency response plans and other activities in preparation for Hurricane Katrina; and the local, state, and federal government response to Hurricane Katrina.

Predictably, local (NO) and State (LA) were totally to blame in ALL phases, while the Fed did what it could under the circumstances.

The Committee will no doubt conclude Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco were grossly negligent and derelict in their duty, response, and preparation of the entire Katrina fiasco.

[Leofl]

ping for later

[Goldwater-Reagan Republican]

Ping for later.

[ViLaLuz]

"... Blanco, who looked partisan in accepting the recommendation to push back elections in Orleans Parish (even as they will be held on time in even more-devastated St. Bernard Parish), ..."

Da Parish is holding elections on time? Gosh I wonder why I haven't heard that reported on the news.

[WasDougsLamb]

.....the last thing Blanco needs to be doing is casting critical and misleading stones at her presumed benefactors when she lives in such a thoroughly glass house to begin with. It shows a desire to continue to live in denial, to stay stuck on stupid, and does not exactly build confidence in the state with the rest of the country. Amen I’m afraid it’ll be up to more capable folks outside of the Blanco Administration to provide the leadership to help Louisiana recover. Agreed

[seawolf101]

If the people of New Orleans and Louisiana don't get rid of these two then they have no one else to blame but themselves.

Unfortunately, the rest of the country will simply have to pay for all this stupidity.