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Home Front: Economy
Blanco: Body Recovery Taking Too Long
2005-09-13
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco lashed out at FEMA on Tuesday, complaining the agency is moving too slowly in recovering the bodies of those killed by Hurricane Katrina. The dead "deserve more respect than they have received," she said at state police headquarters in Baton Rouge. She said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency still has not signed a contract with the company hired to handle the removal of the bodies, Houston-based Kenyon International Emergency Services.
"You've got to find more bodies! Thousands of bodies! My career in the Democratic Party depends on it!"
Calls to a FEMA spokesman in New Orleans and the Homeland Security Department in Washington were not immediately returned.
It's not like she returned their calls before Katrina hit.
Posted by:Steve

#18  Trivia: Anderson Cooper is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt.
Posted by: ed   2005-09-13 22:47  

#17  The reporter (Anderson Cooper???) said "absolutely not, we have a court order, here (pulls out a cell phone)...d'ya want to talk to our lawyer in Atlanta?"

I'd have said "sure", accepted the phone, walked into the house, and make sure the reporter got a phone back that made him perfectly aware of what it means to deal with corpses.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-09-13 22:05  

#16  HOW FUCKING DARE SHE?!

That ignorant, bile-filled bitch. That utterly disgusting piece of human slime.

Someone needs to take her aside, and between strikes with a nail-studded baseball bat, tell her of DMORT. How people spend weeks away from their families in order to ensure the dead are treated with respect.

Goddamned bitch. Just watch Democrats rally behind her, intent on scoring any points they can against the President while protecting the incompetents, criminals, and outright traitors in their midst.

Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-09-13 22:02  

#15  Why is it that the donks are sooooo preoccupied with dead bodies?

Someone needs to bitch slap the gov
Posted by: Captain America   2005-09-13 18:53  

#14  Bring in 500 GreyHounds.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-09-13 18:43  

#13  WRT Blanco - body recovery wouldn't take so long IF SHE HAD DONE HER JOB - there wouldn't be as many bodies!
Posted by: DMFD   2005-09-13 18:28  

#12  Next time CNN tries that with the National Guard, the Guardsman should pull out a cross and a string of garlic. That usually works in those circumstances.
Posted by: DMFD   2005-09-13 18:26  

#11  I just wish the NG trooper had asked Mr. Cooper to "put down the microphone and give us a hand. We got two big ones in here. Grab this leg, willya?"

Mr. Cooper, of course, would have fainted, hit the water, aspirated, gotten a nasty intestinal and pulmonary infection and then (as we'd all pray) get sepsis. Heh.
Posted by: Steve White   2005-09-13 17:58  

#10  She'll be thrilled to hear that the death toll in LA has jumped to over 450, according to Fox. I hope she can contain her glee.
Posted by: .com   2005-09-13 17:28  

#9  So is she going to go help with the effort? I have never seen such do nothing whiners in my life. How about you (Gov) and your staff augment the people working the recovery effort? I bet with your assistance this could be wrapped up by next weekend.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-09-13 17:22  

#8  I watched a little CNN last night, which I rarely do, and came to the conclusion that I think Anderson Cooper has gone insane.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-09-13 17:06  

#7  Last night CNN tried to ambush a National Guard unit on body retrieval duty. The camera crew went thru the yellow caution tape near a house. A young Guardsman came over and asked them to leave. The reporter (Anderson Cooper???) said "absolutely not, we have a court order, here (pulls out a cell phone)...d'ya want to talk to our lawyer in Atlanta?"

And I thought my God, what are you DOING threatening to sic Atlanta lawyers on a man with who is up to his armpits in steamy putrid DEATH ?
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-09-13 16:54  

#6  The dead "deserve more respect than they have received," she said ...

So maybe she doesn't want CNN to video the search for the dead either?
Posted by: Bobby   2005-09-13 16:35  

#5  here again she shows just how helpless she really is. Why can't SHE get this done? She is so incompetant she couldn't find her ass if it had a bell stuck up it. Is the State of Louisiana that totally dependant on the Feds?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-09-13 16:29  

#4  I'm still real interested to see how many of these turn out to be homicides.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-09-13 16:25  

#3  Can't the state police and AG just arrest her and Nagin Charge them and let us be done with it?
Their lawyers will tell the to shut up right now.

They really need to shut up. Their lies are totally visible.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom   2005-09-13 16:23  

#2  Couldn't do much of anything all to well to help her people prepare for the inevitable and it's aftermath but boy she sure knows how to complain and point the finger like a natural. A rolemodel for all future pathetic political figures surely. I have no doubt her powers of self delusion will serve her well in living out the rest of her life ignoring her shameful role in what happened to the state and the people she took an oath to protect and serve. Somebody would really be doing her a favor should they break her jaw immediately.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-09-13 16:06  

#1  She just can't seem to shut he yap.
Posted by: Bobby   2005-09-13 16:00  

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