It’s been suggested that Jimmy Carter should be put in charge of rebuilding New Orleans. I’ll never understand the love affair some people have with that man. He must have a great PR team that hasn’t gotten to me yet, because I despise that man. But why do I hate him?
I’ll take a look at an event from recent history, the North Korea nuke deal. I never liked Bill Clinton, but he was the President at the time and therefore ultimately the one person to make a deal on behalf of America. But Jimmy Carter thought differently. He took it upon himself to fly over to North Korea and start working out a deal to stop North Korea from building nuclear weapons. This put Clinton in a corner. He couldn’t come out against Carter. Democrats, liberals and everyone else in love with Carter wouldn’t appreciate Clinton telling Carter to butt out. So we end up with a deal that stunk. It stunk when it was first created and years later when it was discovered that North Korea never stopped building nukes, we found out just how much it stunk. The stink didn’t stick to Carter though. I have no idea why. It was his deal. He basically smiled and then paid North Korea a bribe for something they never intended to do. No accountability, no follow-through.
That’s the idiot some want rebuilding New Orleans. They already have two idiots down there, Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin, they don’t need another. I’m waiting for the Louisiana legislature to get off their heels and remove Blanco from office. I have no idea how well the Lt. Governor will handle things, but it would be difficult to handle things worse than Blanco has so far.