The guy was trying to lay blame at everybody's feet but his own.
Yet at the same time he acknowledges that NO was a city on the edge before the hurricane.
Talks about drugs flowing freely through the city, high murder rate, etc. and says now that they're understaffed, things are out of control.
He almost sounds empathetic to the drug users that are now "on the edge" as he says because they haven't had a fix.
I just turned to -- then away from -- CNN. Sanjay Gupta is at one of the hospitals pitching in (as he usually does - in addition to his reporting job with CNN, he is a surgeon with Emory Healthcare here in Atlanta; he takes his Hippocratic Oath seriously, if he can help, he will); he was talking to Soledad O'Brian about the snipers who are shooting at doctors and others near the hospital.
She was whining (seems like that's all she can do once she opens her mouth), "If you could get in, why can't the National Guard?" [click!]
I should have known better after Jack Cafferty's foaming-at-the-mouth commentary yesterday afternoon.