Kathleen Blanco, the incompetent Governor of Louisiana, is now giving ultimatums top the President and the rest of the Federal Government – “Do it my way or face my wrath!”

Gov. Kathleen Blanco kicked off a history-making special session of the Legislature Monday evening at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center with a forceful message to the federal government and state lawmakers to support her levee board and housing programs for hurricane recovery.

In what was widely seen as the sharpest speech of her beleaugured political career since Hurricane Katrina, Blanco admonished President Bush for dodging LouisianaÂ’s requests for aid while announcing an ultimatum to the federal government to give Louisiana a larger share of oil and gas royalites from offshore drilling or face a roadblock to future exploration in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

“If no effort is made to guarantee our fair share of royalties, I have warned the federal government that we will be forced to block the August sale of offshore oil and gas leases,” Blanco said. “It’s time to play hardball, as I believe that’s the only game Washington understands.”

The governor has limited administrative ability to stop the leases, but since such an action has never been taken it is unclear how authoritative her blockage might be. The state receives only a fraction of the annual $5 billion in federal royalties.

Go ahead and try, Kathleen – we would love the opportunity to paint the resulting energy crisis as the work of corrupt and greedy Democrats more interested in lining their own pockets (a Louisiana tradition, we all know) rather than the good of the nation. It might, in fact, be sufficient to get the American people to take you and your state off the dole entirely. You can then fix up your trashy state and tacky city with your own dough. And by the way – those of us here in Houston would be more than happy to put your criminals back onto buses and return them to you.

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