So..
Torie...
Don't hold back, tell us what you really think.
Torie, I'm not convinced that if that mayor had put his foot down on Thursday and demanded that everyone leave, and had provided buses, that more than a small percentage of people who didn't leave would have gotton on a bus.
The people who stayed behind were convinced that they knew better. I saw a number of them interviewed and they owned up to it. "I was sure wrong..."
Do I think the mayor and governor are inept? Yes. Right now people need confidence that things are going to get better. Infighting isn't going to induce hope. With the media we have, any positive aspect of Bush publicly taking over, would be nullified as much as was humanly possible.
I'm just not convinced there's much to be gained by going public, if behind the scenes work is accomplishing the task. In the last day or so, I think the national effort has come up to speed and is changing things for the better across the board.