Did you watch Brit Hume's program tonight? They discussed the inability for Bush to have the Feds take over...unless he forced his way into doing so....citing a specific reason (I forget the word they used, but something close in meaning to civil unrest). I think it was Krauthammer who said that the only thing that Bush would have been able to state as cause was looting...and taking the state over by force wouldn't have been something Bush wanted to do...Fred Barnes said his only mistake was being to complicit with the LA Gov., after asking her to allow the Feds to take over and, a day later, she refused.
My access to media is limited, so I've seen very little. I do have radio, so I was able to catch some of the LA officials comments. Before the Katrina's winds even dropped below 60 MPH, some higher end NO libs were yacking out from Chicago to blame Bush for what happened. Hannity just had that itchy scratchy Senator 'toon from NY on, calling for hearings on this. Nonpartisan of course... LOL! No matter what, the libs would get marching orders and talking points. The important part is none of them regard any substantial real failures, just bogus hype.