Katrina - Governor and Mayor Feud

While rescue operations are still underway and while the left continues to try and put blame, any blame, on President Bush, The governor and the mayor are still feuding over how to handle the situation.

Unbelievable.

As floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina (search) began to slowly recede with the ruined city's first pumps returning to operation, Nagin late Tuesday authorized law enforcement officers to force the evacuation of the estimated 10,000 residents who refuse to heed orders to leave.

But in a Wednesday interview with FOX News, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco (search) said she had not signed off on the decision.

"The mayor certainly has ordered that but the governor, and that would be me, would have to enforce it or implement it. We are trying to determine whether there is an absolute justification for that," she told FOX News.

"I think the most important thing driving that decision would be the possibility of disease. If indeed the disease problem is evident, is inevitable, we'll have to move to the next stage," she said.

Are these two even communicating with one another?

Anyone still have doubts who is to blame for this fiasco?

Instapundit notes this:

Of course, there seems to be a lot of dumb decisionmaking at all levels:

The Fox News Channel's Major Garrett was just on my show extending the story he had just reported on Brit Hume's show: The Red Cross is confirming to Garrett that it had prepositioned water, food, blankets and hygiene products for delivery to the Superdome and the Convention Center in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, but were blocked from delivering those supplies by orders of the Louisiana state government, which did not want to attract people to the Superdome and/or Convention Center.

That's consistent with this report. Apparently, they wanted people hungry, thirsty, and anxious to leave.

[They got their wish but they left out the police and national guard]

Video of the Red Cross story here, from Ian Schwartz.

UPDATE

Powerline has much, much more on Louisiana barring the Red Cross from providing aid to the Superdome.

You will never, ever see any of this from main stream media, in the US or UK.
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