My guess on has/will happen in New Orleans:
1) Local officials messed up by not using public transport to evac more people.
2) FEMA messed up big time. Just gross mismanagement.
3) Bush/Rove realized that FEMA messed up badly on, say, Thursday.
4) Bush/Rove try to strong arm the locals into giving up any control over the situation so they can place the blame entirely on the local by saying "The federal govt. has assumed control of the situation in new Orleans." And then showing up in force. They drug their heels waiting 24 hours for Blanco to decide.
5) It failed. Blanco told them to stuff it and started applying the media pressure.
6) The pressure got bad enough that FEMA had to get off it's ass anyway.
7) Now both the locals and feds are trying to spin it so it looks like the other guy is completely at fault.
8) In the end, I it may come out that Bush/Rove tried to play politics with this one.
9) If it does, it will get bad for them.
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One of the things that's funny about this is that I've head some say (I think it was on Fox but I dont have the exact reference) that one of the reasons why things were so bad is that Bush/Chertoff/Brown were saddled with two incompetent governors. Hmm. so *ALL* the locals *EXCEPT JEB BUSH* were incompetent? Yeah, right.
1) Local officials messed up by not using public transport to evac more people.
2) FEMA messed up big time. Just gross mismanagement.
3) Bush/Rove realized that FEMA messed up badly on, say, Thursday.
4) Bush/Rove try to strong arm the locals into giving up any control over the situation so they can place the blame entirely on the local by saying "The federal govt. has assumed control of the situation in new Orleans." And then showing up in force. They drug their heels waiting 24 hours for Blanco to decide.
5) It failed. Blanco told them to stuff it and started applying the media pressure.
6) The pressure got bad enough that FEMA had to get off it's ass anyway.
7) Now both the locals and feds are trying to spin it so it looks like the other guy is completely at fault.
8) In the end, I it may come out that Bush/Rove tried to play politics with this one.
9) If it does, it will get bad for them.
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One of the things that's funny about this is that I've head some say (I think it was on Fox but I dont have the exact reference) that one of the reasons why things were so bad is that Bush/Chertoff/Brown were saddled with two incompetent governors. Hmm. so *ALL* the locals *EXCEPT JEB BUSH* were incompetent? Yeah, right.