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The *only* hope Louisiana has, at this point, is Bobby Jindal in the governor’s mansion and a clean sweep of the State Legislature. Without both, the state will be dead.

With the risk of sounding like a dick, to hell with New Orleans. You’d have to be pretty dumb to live there in the first place.

Darth Executor on March 21, 2007 at 11:00 AM

You don’t sound so much like a dick as like someone who’s substituted a single thing and a single name for an entire region. Metropolitan New Orleans is three-dimensional. Its qualities differ by neighborhood and its neighborhoods differ in elevation. Intelligence or error seems to attach to a decision to live in some particular building in some definite place in the area. Intelligence or error also seems to attach to the ways we generalize and overgeneralize.

Flan City, actually. Tens of thousands of illegal aliens have arrived to help rebuild by lowering wages, filling up our emergency rooms and already weak schools, abetting employers’ OSHA, permit, and employment law violations, driving drunk (my mother and daughter were hit by one in August), and improving our conversational Spanish by their failure to assimilate.

Laura on March 21, 2007 at 8:29 AM

If Americans think they’re being crowded out of their country, the answer seems to be having more children. At first, it may seem odd to relate America’s fallback in the Southwest to Social Security and Medicare, but employees’ and employers’ payroll taxes are going to a dying generation instead of being left at the discretion of people who want to be parents, uncles, and aunts. As for “employers’ OSHA, permit, and employment law violations,” the advocates of free markets said all along that regulation reduces a people’s competitive ability. In all, the Americans are slowly dying in their government’s firm grasp, while the Mexican immigrants are just doing what people do with their freedom.

Vanilla City here we come!

thedecider on March 20, 2007 at 11:24 PM

Flan City, actually. Tens of thousands of illegal aliens have arrived to help rebuild by lowering wages, filling up our emergency rooms and already weak schools, abetting employers’ OSHA, permit, and employment law violations, driving drunk (my mother and daughter were hit by one in August), and improving our conversational Spanish by their failure to assimilate.

And RightWinged, here’s a title for that book…”Katrina and Me”. No, that would be the title of Michael Moore’s next documentary. How about “Stormy Weather”? Hey, that would make a great song title.

Anyway, good riddance. Hope she doesn’t take up driving school busses in her next job.

Didn’t Papa Bush get smeared with a hurricane just before Clinton won the election? Seems familiar.

FEMA works well everywhere else. It would be a shame if people died so the Democrats could gain some votes.

A Blanco aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the people around Bush were trying to maneuver the governor into an unnecessary change intended to make Bush look decisive.

“It was an overwhelming natural disaster. The federal government has an agency that exists for purposes of coming to the rescue of localities in a natural disaster, and that organization did not live up to what it was designed for or promised to,” the aide said. Referring to Bush aides, he said, “It was time to recover from the fiasco, and take a win wherever you could, legitimate or not.”

[Senator David] Vitter[R-LA], in an interview, disagreed but acknowledged the clash.

“In my opinion, they [Blanco aides] were hypersensitive. . . . They seemed to feel there was some power play, which I don’t think there was,” he said. “The fact that it was [Rove] — might that have fueled the governor’s hypersensitivity? It may have, I don’t know.”

… In any event, the conflict delayed the arrival of active-duty troops in New Orleans, where reports of looting and violence prevented rescuers from retrieving stranded residents and evacuating hospitals and the Louisiana Superdome.

… At about the same time, Blanco communications director Bob Mann spoke to an aide to Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.), who said Democrats were eagerly “mobilizing big-time to push back on criticism of the state.”

… But Vitter took another lesson, saying that in catastrophic incidents the legal and practical problems of calling in active-duty military must be straightened out “so people don’t mess around for three days and then come to some understanding, which is what essentially happened here.”

How did they end up straightening out those problems? By weakening posse comitatus and beefing up the Insurrection Act of 1807.

Beyond cases of actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any “other condition.”

I wrote earlier that Bush doesn’t fight back – I meant in the propaganda war. But it seems like he does fight back in other ways.

But think of ways a future president could use this change – think of Hillary! in office with this kind of unchecked power. Worrisome.

Laura on March 20, 2007 at 8:58 PM

Hi Laura, your comments last weekend about the “Cajun Kennedys” were not lost on me. Her retirement was news to me, however. I lived in Tx in the 80′s and early 90′s and enjoyed my visits to NO. Now back to my Ohio roots, I appreciate the opinions of folks who live through these issues locally.

Finally owning up to her designation as one of the nation’s worst governors, the beleaguered governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, bows out. Why’d she go? Seems clear the writing was on the wall: In a poll of 600 likely voters……

I’m with you on that, spazzmomma, but I sure hate to lose him in the House. Still, if he makes Governor, maybe he can bump Mary “bring out your dead” Landreiu out of her Senate seat sometime later.

What do you think Laura from NOLA? I know you’re on your way here.

Buck Turgidson on March 20, 2007 at 4:28 PM

Hey, Buck, I’ve commented on lots of HA posts, just not much recently. If I’d known how much you missed me I’d have dropped by sooner. ;-)

I’m happy it’s official, but it’s not really news. Blanco is an idiot, but not so much that she thought she had a chance of winning. She’ll keep that war chest, thankyouverymuch, and find something advantageous to do with the money. Never doubt it. I wish we could have recalled her – there was a movement to do that, as well as Aaron Broussard. Remember him on Meet the Press? Another bald-faced Democrat liar. He personally caused about 3 billion worth of flooding by sending the pump operators too far away. Hopefully he’ll be the next one to go away quietly. I told you people were finally getting mad around here!