The Senate committee overseeing homeland security has been attempting to investigate the response to hurricane Katrina, but it is running into a wall of obstruction from officials in Louisiana. On October 7th the Senate panel requested that Governor Blanco provide them with assorted documentation covering what disaster plans she had in place in the event of something like Katrina occurred, and what steps were put in place following the "Hurricane Pam" simulated disaster scenario.
On October 25th, Governor Blanco's office asked for an additional ninety days to respond to the request, citing their involvement in recovering from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. So perhaps by early next year, barring any records getting lost or destroyed, or computer hard drives unfortunately crashing, we may finally get some answers as to what decisions Blanco and Mayor Nagin made both before and in the immediate aftermath of Katrina making landfall.
If not, the Republicans can always shut down the Senate in protest.
2 comments:
knucklehead:
I wonder if those are old pictures. I heard that the city is completely drained.
I bet the Blanco people don't even have a plan or paperwork or anything else to give them.
Too incompetent.
The rules are clear and simple.
When the Republicans shut down the Senate, that will be "shutting down the government". That's awful! That just shows how evil they are.
When the Democrats shut down the Senate they are taking a principled stand, speaking "truth to power". That just shows how altruistic they are.
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