Michael J. Fox talks about campaign/Rush

>>One guy went as far to say that Blanco coudlnt have done anything to help the problem out better, I then realized he was letting his biases dictate the facts. I mean at the college I go too you have a lot of liberals that tell you the best version of their truth according to them and then leave out the rest becuase it may bring some doubt to their argument their trying to tell you.

While I disagree with her, make no mistake that she took some orchestrated heat (though much of it deserved). I think an honest review of the facts would show that Bush, Nagin and Blanco (in that order) deserve the appropriate blame. I'm not a huge fan of the governor, and did not support her in 2003. But the state did what it could initially. Arm-chair quarterbacking, maybe they could have turned the National Guard over to the feds, and a lot of people say that. But what good might that have done as the feds weren't prepared anyway outside of the Coast Guard (the heroes) and first responders and citizens who went door to door and rooftop to rooftop.

Bush has to take the most blame because he is in charge of the federal response (initially inept, no one can possibly argue that) and also the Army Corps of Engineers who are under him. The magnitude of the compounded problems of a hurricane aftermath and a city being flooded was a learning experience.

Nagin goes second for failing to get more of the poor segment of the population out of town. In my mind, he's almost been derelict in his second term. I haven't seen anything worth a damn coming out of City Hall. The streets are now sub-3rd world, there is no plan, and I just don't see him as any kind of leader that we need right now.

Blanco gets third blame. The state did a pretty good job with the contraflow. Two complaints I had were some podunk towns who refused to adjust their 1 or 2 traffic lights to account for unbalanced (tens of thousands) traffic patterns while local police just sat there in their cars watching. I thought many of them should have been arrested by state troopers, so that is a failure. They also did a good job (despite some of the parishes, e.g. Jefferson - the 2nd largest in the state) in getting 85% of the people out of the metro area in 48 hours when we always knew it was going to require 72. But they failed to get needed supplies in to suffering Louisianians. So they were inept too.

JMHO.

TPS