Several interesting points / arguments made in the comments to the previous post outlining Blanco’s series of indecisions after Nagin’s initial failures with regard to positioning buses and supplies.  With regard to the Stafford Act and my earlier contention that jurisdictional takeover requires active assent from the NO government, Dorkafork notes that the Act “is mainly about financial assistance and coordination of aid agencies.  The references to jurisdiction I see

The reflexively anti-Bush headline aside (about which John Cole has more), this is an important article in that some of the behind-the-scenes machinations between the local and federal governments in the wake of the levee breaks are beginning to come to light: Tens of thousands of people spent a fifth day awaiting evacuation from this ruined city, as Bush administration officials blamed state and local authorities for what leaders at

…Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia at the age of 80. My thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family. Quick political thoughts:  The Democrats are now in a bind:  do they take a stand against the confirmation of the eminently qualified John Roberts (who doesn’t have the kind of paper trail that will sink him) and save their ammunition

Rethuglican bastard.