Nagin starts butt covering
I found this article, Mayor Nagin: Gov. Blanco Delayed Rescue and I wanted to pass it along.
It talks about how New Orleans Mayor Nagin met with President Bush and the President said, "Mr. Mayor, I offered two options to the governor. I said . . . I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision."
So it was Governor Blanco who needed time to make a decision to ask for help in the wake of the biggest disaster to hit Louisiana. Decisions that should have been made before Katrina made landfall.
The reason why FEMA and DHS were "so slow" in getting help in is that the state must ask for help first. If the state doesn't ask, then the Feds can't move in. So those quick to blame Bush for not getting in their quicker should look to Governor Blanco instead.
But then again, and this point is getting tiresome, Mayor Nagin has a lot to answer for as well, as his own hurricane evacuation plan was not followed.
Sheesh.