Posted on 09/05/2005 11:08:26 AM PDT by schu
Tensions color Bush, Blanco meeting
Gov. Kathleen Blanco canceled a scheduled trip Monday to visit Louisiana evacuees in Houston shelters to stay in Baton Rouge to meet with President Bush. Blanco Communications Director Bob Mann said the governor did not learn about the Bush visit until early Monday morning. “We had no idea the president was coming,” Mann said.
Tension between the Blanco and Bush administrations has surfaced in recent days as state and federal officials try to coordinate recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The Blanco administration clearly wanted to express their irritation with the communication about the president's trip. Blanco officials said they had heard that the president might make a visit and had been trying to get details.
As of late Sunday night, FEMA officials told Blanco that the president was not planning a visit, Mann said. One key point of coordination is the military effort to restore order and begin rebuilding infrastructure.
As of Monday morning, the National Guard from Louisiana and other states had deployed 13,268 troops in the 13 parish area affected by the storm, Louisiana National Guard spokesman Pete Schneider said. In route are 7,845 more National Guardsmen, so that by Tuesday morning 21,113 guardsmen will be in Louisiana.
Parallel to that effort, the regular Army 82nd Airborne and 1st Cavalry divisions are sending in 7,000 troops to Louisiana to arrive in the next couple of days.
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This statement doesnt surpise me at all..
Good. If anyone needs an a**-kicking, it's the state and local officials - they have the first responsibility, not the feds.
Really? Fox News has been reporting it since Saturday. She must be an even bigger boob than she appears to be on TV.
This woman should be impeached. And...NOLA should stop printing lies. The entire country knew from Friday on that GW Bush was going back to the south east on Monday. If Governor Blanco did not know that the President was coming back to Louisiana on Monday, she was either asleep at the wheel or sniffing glue!!!
It's still about color to the lamestream media.
“We had no idea the president was coming,” Mann said.
They can cover their butts, and moreover, they can lie, too. When is Governor Blanco going to declare a Federal emergency?
Frankly, if the Governor's biggest priority at this point in time is not being told about the President's visit, then her priorities are up her ass. So a meeting and photo-op with Bush supercedes what needs to be done across the state to alleviate the effects of Katrina. This woman needs to go home and stay there.
The more the Pres. can keep Blanco out of the loop, the better it will be for us down here. Hurricane Katrina was the worst thing to ever happen to Louisiana... Blanco is the second worst.
What in the world is she going to Houston for? The crisis is in her state, and she going where the people are safe and being taken care of. SHE IS COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT.
Come and punch me, Landrieu you equally incompetant moran.
hmmmm. I think I recall hearing that President Bush would be visiting LA and MS about mid-day on Sunday. Doesn't anyone on the Governor's staff monitor the news outlets? I wonder if this story is just more RAT spin?
I note that last week she had time to attend Jesse Jackson's presser. What asses these people are. Your Democrat politicians at work.
Even I knew he was going to be there today. She has NO excuse!
Working as I do from home, I have watched TV for a week solid.
NOT ONCE did I see Blanco or Nagin addressing the country or the people of Louisiana.
Buck up Blanco, they're not all out to 'GET YOU!'
This is a disaster and plans aren't cast in granit, able to be conveyed early on.
One aspect of Pres. Bush I'm beginning to admire, is that the mentality seems to be, if George shows up unannounced, you're in BIG, BIG, BIG trouble. I imagine many people have left closed door meetings with him shaken and white-faced.
Unlike Clinton, who'd just talk at you and smile for the cameras (while his toadies stabbed you in the back), Pres. Bush commands respect still, even with the constant harping - him coming back, making statements like "This is unacceptable" made me think of when i was a kid, and my mom would threaten us with "Just wait until your FATHER gets home!" Even in the midia, there seemed to be a palpable sense of "finally an adult is in charge" when Pres. Bush stepped in and took matters into his hands.
I'm not trying to belittle the situation, but more and more it seems our President is another "Talk softly, but carry a BIG stick" kind of guy, which I really respect. I hate namby pamby wishy washy EMOTIONAL creeps like clinton, who'd cry with you while feeling your wife up. His wife scares the living sh*t out of me in situations like this, I don't even want to speculate how her and her toadies would react.
I wonder how many people would have lived if the idiots running NO and LA had let him help early on, or how many MORE if Hill and/or Bill were in office.
**shudder**
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