HOLY SHIT

[mburbank]

I think it's gonna be a hunk of time before we get some sort of clear idea of what happened when and who failed whom, but it's all going to come out. Right now it would be pretty hard to tell if the mayor is a hero or just a guy who failed a nearly impossible task.

I'll say this. Howvere many days it took, he's no longer speaking like a politician with one hand covering his ass.

Like someone I won't mention who has said, and this is all today:

He's satisified with the relief effort.
The relief effort is unacaptable.
What he meant by saying it was unnacaptable is that it won't be acceptable until it's all done, which will happen, and we're making excellent progress.

Katrina gave ample warning. There were buckets of reports about what would happen if a category five or stronger hit New Orleans, and in fact FEMA has had their own reports on the subject for years. Instead of being ready to go, our national response is just starting to get there today. No matter how you slice it, that adds up to a lot of dead people who might have had a better shot at living.