Bush was all over the approaching storm, telling people to get out of the way and pleading with the idiot Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to let FEMA in to get pre-positioned.
1. The idiot mayor of New Orleans, Nagin did nothing.
2. Blanco would not permit the Fed Gov in.
The traitorous media tried to hit Bush on this and in large measure succeded.
It was worse than that. The local Democrats, in my opinion, did not act the way they did out just pure incompetence. They purposely used the situation to score political points against a President of the other party. They created the roadblocks that allowed the media to savage our side. The Katrina situation was manufactured ready to order by the Democrat Party.