WaPo, showing where Blanco appears to be getting her marching orders. Frankly, we are amazed that the strategy appears so bad and so transparent, and question whether the WaPo has all its facts straight:

Blanco made two moves Saturday that protected her independence from the federal government: She created a philanthropic fund for the state’s victims and hired James Lee Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency director in the Clinton administration, to advise her on the relief effort.

It has appeared obvious for a week now that Blanco is a weak woman, and has little sense of how to make important decisions. She is led around apparently by party officials or similar people. These people, as we read between the lines, have decided that it would yield great fun and profit to rub Bush’s nose in all the problems of New Orleans and Katrina, so they are doing silly and pernicious tricks — a parallel process on reconstruction, a meaningless PR “fund,” and the hiring of a Clinton FEMA guy to feed a willing media anti-Bush propaganda. We hope Karl Rove has reserved his nastiest tricks for those who try to score cheap political points on the backs of people who are truly suffering. Can the WaPo possibly be correct in its assertions? Can Blanco be such a dope?

UPDATE

Ever since Paul Krugman called Enron bigger than 9-11, every crisis or problem has gotten a big reaction from Democrats: this is it! This is how we’re going to get Bush! It appears to us that Governor Blanco is the latest vessel for the wizards of Democratic strategy. Yet another pathetic move. Over the next month or two, evacuees will be dispersed around the country, and the camera lights will dim. Most will get jobs in various cities and towns, as we note elsewhere. Large venues like the Astrodome will be shuttered. And New Orleans, as wounded as it is, will assume again the profile it normally has in America, which is: nobody particularly cares about it except for a day or two before Ash Wednesday. That is not to say that a tremendous amount of money won’t be spent, only that it is hard to see the compelling day-to-day story. There will be other storms, other deaths, other destructions. And there is always Natalee Holloway. Take a stroll over to Jeff Goldstein to see the brain-dead posturing of Blanco and her advisors as they try in vain to deal the latest Big Gotcha to W.

With all the appalling and contradictory bashing of the administration, 55% say it ain’t Bush’s fault — so the latest improvised Democrat strategy is working as well as all of its predecessors.

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