Blanco Gets No Katrina Questions

Jonah Goldberg crapped a brick upon seeing this story, and I can't say that I blame him:

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, [appropriately and long-belatedly] blamed by the former leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin for many of the city's post-hurricane problems, was given no questions about her response to Hurricane Katrina when she appeared before a Senate committee to plead for more federal money.

She asked not to be questioned about it and the senators agreed.

Mrs. Blanco, a Democrat, was invited by the Senate Finance Committee to respond to charges by former FEMA Director Michael D. Brown, who the day before called Louisiana officials "dysfunctional" in handling the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."

"Today, I came really to talk about job creation," she said.

So she was invited to respond to Brownie's setting the record straight and then was excused from any questions? By a Republican-run committee?

Well, of course she was.

Look, I share J-Gold's outrage at rampaging Republican ninny-ism, but not his surprise. To reiterate yet again, President Bush set the "Republicans are to blame for all the post-Katrina foul-ups no matter how many of them Blanco and Nagin committed" theme two weeks ago. The way that the GOP-led House Katrina Committee drilled Mr. Brown the other day is incontrovertible evidence that no elected Pachyderm is going to buck his/her leader's surrender to that detestable left-wing template.

Besides, if Chuck Grassley's 'Pubbies had grilled her, she would just have turned on the tears and the Extreme press would have friccasseed them as "bullies" and "ogres" anyway.