Blanco Passes Buck Back to Nagin
On Monday, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien conducted an interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (I blogged about that here). In the interview, Nagin seemed to have calmed down a bit from his "blame Bush for the slow response" rhetoric from a few days prior and moved to passing the buck onto someone else: La. Governor Blanco:
Money Flowed to Questionable Projects
As the rush by the usual suspects to blame Bush for the levee breaks and "slow federal response" marches on, this piece from the Washington Post provides yet another glimpse into the funding surrounding the levees that broke, causing the massive flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
Media groups say “show us the bodies”
I don’t know what it is about coffins and bodies but the some in the media seem to have an unhealthy obsession with them. First, there was the push for showing pictures of our soldiers returning home in flag-drapped coffins, now this: