Question for Shrub: when's your next visit to NOLA?

[npincus]

Hmmmmmmmm? Weren't you there like, eight times, after the shit hit the fan because of your piss-poor response to Katrina? When is your NEXT visit, Mr. President?

C'mon, Brian Williams! Somebody. Ask.

[Nimrod2005]

1. Very good question....Need a petition going?

[gratuitous]

2. And is Karl Rove doing a heckuva job?

Remember that Karl is the administration's point man on the Katrina recovery. What's Karl doing today about that? This week? This month? Anything scheduled between now and the George's next State of the Whatever speech? No?

I guess everybody's all taken care of, and George is heading down to enjoy a non-alcoholic mint julep on Trent Lott's new porch, huh?

[Al-CIAda]

6. re:Karl Rove-

Documents Highlight Bush-Blanco Standoff

By Spencer S. Hsu, Joby Warrick and Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, December 5, 2005; Page A10

Shortly after noon on Aug. 31, Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (R) delivered a message that stunned aides to Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D), who were frantically managing the catastrophe that began two days earlier when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.

White House senior adviser Karl Rove wanted it conveyed that he understood that Blanco was requesting that President Bush federalize the evacuation of New Orleans. The governor should explore legal options to impose martial law "or as close as we can get," Vitter quoted Rove as saying, according to handwritten notes by Terry Ryder, Blanco's executive counsel.

Thus began what one aide called a "full-court press" to compel the first-term governor to yield control of her state National Guard -- a legal, political and personal campaign by White House staff that failed three days later when Blanco rejected the administration's terms, 10 minutes before Bush was to announce them in a Rose Garden news conference, the governor's aides said.

The standoff, illuminated among more than 100,000 pages of documents released Friday by Blanco in response to requests by Senate and House investigators, marks perhaps the clearest single conflict between U.S. and Louisiana officials in the bungled response to New Orleans's surrender to floodwaters and chaos.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/04/AR2005120400963.html

[gratuitous]

8. 100,000 pages of documents released Friday before last . . .

Gee, I wonder why the mainstream press hasn't been all over this attempted usurpation of a state's sovereign authority by the administration? Did Rove make the same demand on Haley Barbour, Republican governor of Alabama? Or did he have to? Or was it understood that Barbour and Rove would be sympatico on the uses and misuses of the state National Guard? Hmmmm.

[bahrbearian]

3. Does Trent have a new porch allready?

[CottonBear]

4. I predict he never goes back to the gulf coast.

Not as a president or former president. He will be even more hated than he is now and will live in a prison of his own making for the rest of his sorry life.

[long_green]

9. Oh, I'm sure he'll make it to Mississippi

As for New Orleans, no way. Heck, I'd be frightened for him even in a Republican enclave like Lakeview.

[CottonBear]

10. Mr. CB is from NOLA. If I were GWB, I'd never step foot there again.n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Heard someone on one of the talk shows mention that his

last visit to New Orleans was on October 11. He got the photo-ops that he wanted, so now he has washed his hands of it.

[win_in_06]

7. When the streets are clean and they cut a ribbon to open a Corporate HQ