Not exactly shedding tears in Louisiana over Governor Blanco’s coming departure.

“Blanco, a former high-school business teacher-turned-public servant, elected in 2003 as the first woman governor of Louisiana, became one of the many not-so-happy public faces of Katrina, along with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and FEMA‚Äôs Mike ‚ÄúBrownie‚Äù Brown. In the storm‚Äôs immediate aftermath, she appeared so disoriented that one press account of her public appearances went so far as to suggest that she seemed ‚Äúover-medicated.‚Äù Times-Picayune columnist James Gill reported that ‚Äú‚ÄôMe-Maw‚Äôs tanked‚Äô is the word on the street.‚Äù (Blanco is sometimes nicknamed ‚ÄúMe-Maw‚Äù due to her grandmotherly affect.) That general perception was not helped when she was overheard by a CNN producer while still miked, admitting that she hadn‚Äôt known it was the governor‚Äôs responsibility to call out the National Guard. She then engaged in a two-day argument with President Bush over whether the guard troops should be federalized, thus keeping those troops ready to go literally waiting on runways around the nation. (When I returned to the city 10 days after the storm, Oklahoma guard troops told me they had been given the heads up that they‚Äôd be deployed on Wednesday after the storm, and then sat suited up for three more days before finally being given permission to deploy.) In the end, she opted against federalization.”

Nearly two years later they finally get around to telling you what we bloggers told everyone back then, Blanco sucked as a Governor.  Back then the MSM was pinning the Katrina response on Bush and giving Blanco and Nagin a pass.  Yet as time goes by history always has a way of getting things in their right perspective.

Now if the big easy can find a way to get rid of Nagin they might begin to see some significant changes made.