New Orleans Mayor Blames Indecisive Governor

Everyone is blaming Bush for the slow response to Katrina, but even New Orleans Mayor Nagin (no friend of Bush) admits that Gov. Blanco needed some 24 hours just to make a decision on responses.

Nagin: I said, ‘Everybody right now, we’re leaving. These two people [Bush and Blanco] need to sit in a room together and make a doggone decision right now.’

He [Bush] called me in that office after that. And he said, “Mr. Mayor, I offered two options to the governor.” I said – and I don’t remember exactly what. There were two options. I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision...

She said that she needed 24 hours to make a decision. It would have been great if we could of left Air Force One, walked outside, and told the world that we had this all worked out. It didn’t happen, and more people died.

So let's place the blame where it belongs - with an indecisive governor who has no clue on how to manage a disaster.