I’m telling you how it was. Before you spring for the narrative with the GOP seal of approval, you might ask yourself what the republican party has done lately for your constitutional rights that they should enjoy your uncritical credulity. You might consider how the power grab game is played — always with a distraction for the suckers and with competing narratives excluded. Katrina provided laboratory perfect conditions for martial law.
Blanco threw her hands in the air and did nothing, refused help from the Feds and then blamed Bush for everything. Blanco put partisan politics before the relief effort. Bashing Republicans was more important to her than saving people. It was under Blanco that firearms were illegally confiscated from law-abiding citizens and never returned. The State government can violate the people’s rights just as easy as the Feds.