Who failed to act in New Orleans?

School Buses under water, which were not used to evacuate people from New Orleans


If there was any doubt, Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco have clearly been shown to have dropped the ball in the early stages of this disaster. Click here, and listen to the audio. And then watch Mary Landrieu get blown out of the water on Fox News, by the facts and her own words being quoted back to her.

What people outside the U.S. often fail to understand... and for that matter, what many inside the U.S. fail to understand is what the "S" in "U.S." stands for. In the United States, the States are sovereign in all areas not otherwise specified by the U.S. Constitution. If France had a natural disaster, people would not blame NATO for failing to act, because NATO cannot act legally in France unless France asked NATO to help.

The Posse Comitatus law prevents the U.S. military from being used inside the United States except under very limited circumstances. Only when the governor of a state has declared a state of emergency and asked for Federal troops, can Federal troops be used in that state.