Oh course it is the White House shifting blame. See, there is a template that the MSM has for what went wrong, and since the facts don't agree with that template they have to start yelling. And when someone screams all that comes to mind is an old adage: "why am I yelling? Because I am wrong!"
It does not matter that Blanco did everything wrong, the template says that it is all Bush's fault. How dare he work from his ranch for 5 weeks. How dare he not meet with "Mother" Shehan. How dare he breath air that someone more worthy could breath. The MSM will do all they can to try and ruin the President no matter what the truth is.
In addition to beating up on Bush they have to protect the minority leadership and the woman. Wouldn't want people thinking that women who have never been in a leadership position don't know how to act in an emergency.