A well informed friend of mine read, I think in the Wall Street Journal, that Governor Blanco was caught thinking a mic was off during a press conference and was heard telling an aide that she screwed up and should have called for federal aid sooner. That came out and now she's kissing President Bush's rear end. (Did you hear her speech where she lavished praise on him?) She was quick to throw blame at the feds but when she was busted she had to start back peddling and mending fences.

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