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| The Impeachment of Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco |
| 2005-09-07 |
(First draft. Please feel free to distribute.) Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, governor of the State of Louisiana, chose to disregard repeated warnings of the imminent threat to her State. By her actions, she is therefore directly and indirectly responsible for the death of thousands of people. Unlike the governors of the States of Mississippi and Alabama, by whose actions severe natural disaster was limited almost exclusively to property damage, governor Blanco, for whatever reason, chose inaction and indecision at a critical time. She did not make use of more than adequate resources available in her State for protecting its citizens, nor did she request federal assistance until after the disaster had fully descended upon her State. For these reasons, she should be impeached from the office of governor, and removed from office. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #13 the abuses here at the local level are just over the top. How about strenghtening a rule to have some level of compitency for folks that want to run for office to be at least minimally talented. I'd like to call it the Nagin Noggin rule thought of this one while driving to work this morning, remembering Nagin's outburst on TV. :) |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-09-07 23:53 |
| #12 I agree with everybody on this thread..Lets give money to the charitys we believe in, if we live near LA or MISS we can pitch in. and we can ATTACK the Bastards at the same time. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-09-07 23:45 |
| #11 see the Fox article I posted - will show after 9PM PST/Midnite EST. Red Cross stopped from delivering prepositioned supplies to Superdome and Convention Ctr refugees by La State Gov't Homeland Security. WTF???? From Hugh Hewitt's Show: was watching up on the corner television in my studio, and it's headlined that the Red Cross was blocked from delivering supplies to the Superdome, Major Garrett. Tell us what you found out. MG: Well, the Red Cross, Hugh, had pre-positioned a literal vanguard of trucks with water, food, blankets and hygiene items. They're not really big into medical response items, but those are the three biggies that we saw people at the New Orleans Superdom, and the convention center, needing most accutely. And all of us in America, I think, reasonably asked ourselves, geez. You know, I watch hurricanes all the time. And I see correspondents standing among rubble and refugees and evacuaees. But I always either see that Red Cross or Salvation Army truck nearby. Why don't I see that? HH: And the answer is? MG: The answer is the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, that is the state agency responsible for that state's homeland security, told the Red Cross explicitly, you cannot come. HH: Now Major Garrett, on what day did they block the delivery? Do you know specifically? MG: I am told by the Red Cross, immediately after the storm passed. HH: Okay, so that would be on Monday afternoon. MG: That would have been Monday or Tuesday. *** HH: I also have to conclude from what you're telling me, Major Garrett, is that had they been allowed to deliver when they wanted to deliver, which is at least a little bit prior to the levee, or at least prior to the waters rising, the supplies would have been pre-positioned, and the relief...you know, the people in the Superdome, and possibly at the convention center, I want to come back to that, would have been spared the worst of their misery. MG: They would have been spared the lack of food, water and hygiene. I don't think there's any doubt that they would not have been spared the indignity of having nor workable bathrooms in short order. HH: Now Major Garrett, let's turn to the convention center, because this will be, in the aftermath...did the Red Cross have ready to go into the convention center the supplies that we're talking about as well? MG: Sure. They could have gone to any location, provided that the water wasn't too high, and they got some assistance. The Democrats may need to re-think their calls for an investigation. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-07 23:28 |
| #10 Any chance she can be called before Congress? I would hope that if there is an investigation she would be called. (Not that the limp-dick republicans in congress now would do anything or ask any real questions....). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-09-07 23:19 |
| #9 The Anchoress just highlighted these bumper stickers that the left has already printed. I retract everything I've said in this thread. I was wrong, you are right. Go for it. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-09-07 23:07 |
| #8 DMFD: She will not be impeached or tried for the simple reason that democrats control the legislature. So for all intents and purposes, she will get away with it, unless the people of Louisiana throw her out in 2007. Just plain incompetence isn't enough, it seems. Unless she performed an act of commission that was in violation of federal law, she may be responsible for the deaths of more Americans than Osama bin Laden, and yet she will walk away from it, perhaps to harm her State and its people further. So the only recourse left is for the blame to be firmly, and permanently affixed to her. Now. Not at some later time, when she will deftly try to change the subject. Not in 2007, when the media and the democratic party have done everything in their power to fix the blame on George Bush for two years. Louisianans, wherever they are, must know what she did. They must be told, and told often, and efforts to spin away her fault must be slapped down with the truth. Her name and this hurricane should become synonymous. Katrina and Kathleen. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-07 22:55 |
| #7 Do you REALLY want the LA legislature to convene an impeachment hearing? Now? Why not? Remove her before she can cause any more damage. If you have a dangerous incompetent on the job, you don't wait for their next annual review to get rid of them. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-07 21:42 |
| #6 Anonymoose - Blanco is not a subordinate, Bush can't simply fire her. Do you REALLY want the LA legislature to convene an impeachment hearing? Now? Do you want them spending time and effort on that? Now? Do you think that in a state like LA it will be fair and open? We are where we are - let's not introduce distractions from the primary job at hand. That said - we on the right need not sit back and take the insanity that is pouring forth from the left and the media. Defense - yes, going on the attack - not now. Americans are smart enough to see who's taking action, and who's spouting BS. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-09-07 21:23 |
| #5 DMFD: Actually it *is* the time to point fingers. Far too often, the right holds its tongue under a blistering barrage of insane moonbattery, name calling, and personal and political attacks. Right now, typical Americans don't blame the President for the disaster. However, if he is blistered with a deafening barrage, and nobody either stands up for him or puts blame where blame is due, then they will by default assign him blame. Facts be damned. And there is plenty of blame already. Not just the agitators who talk of "cannibalism" and "racism", but among the politicians who know they failed and are desperate to cast blame elsewhere. There is only one reason that hundreds or thousands of New Orleans died--the governor of their State. She *chose* not to act, to gamble with people's lives, and it doesn't matter if she did it from some base political motive, or by sheer spinelessness, she must be held accountable. And by that I do not mean criminally or civilly liable, but politically liable. She should not hold an office of responsibility and trust if she cannot be trusted to use good judgement in that office. She must be removed for the present and future well-being of the people of her State. Would anyone suggest she be left in office if *another* hurricane menaces New Orleans? Such a thing is not unheard of, thinking of the multiple hurricanes that assaulted Florida last season. As a police officer is obliged to use their gun to protect life, so too is a governor obliged to use the power of their office in the same cause. And if either cannot do this, then they should not be in that position of trust, responsibility and authority. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-07 20:16 |
| #4 Fuck you DMFD, let's point fingers. If they did what they should have, there would be a lot less bodies to stack on the cart. |
| Posted by: Snavith Hupager5206 2005-09-07 19:51 |
| #3 I've been saying this about bloggers on the Left. Applies equally to Bloggers on the Right - THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME FOR POINTING FINGERS AND PLAYING POLITICS. Let's at least finish getting people out and settled, then get the city drained, and the dead buried. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-09-07 19:48 |
| #2 I will repeat my comments about another incompetent boob that used to run California. "Any idiot can be in charge when things are going good. It is when things go bad that you find out if you have an idiot or not as an elected official." I think we all know how Bush can handle a crisis and now we know how Blanco cannot. Can Louisiana recall their governors? Might want to start that recall petition soon while the memory is still fresh. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-09-07 18:57 |
| #1 Can being a useless, weeping bimbette be one of the articles of impeachment? What if we just shoot her and then give her a fair trial later? |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2005-09-07 14:16 |
