The Conservative movement should fire Ms Milkan. It is NOT at all helpful for the Conservative movement to HELP the Liberals in their attacks. Conservatives had better wake up. This is an attack on EVREYTHING the Conservative movement has fought for in terms of Limited Govt since 1980. Go read and listen to what the Leftists are saying. They REALLY think they can use this mess to go back to LBJ's Great Society style govt. They really think this "Blame Bush and Feds" and we can justify making the Feds pay for EVERYTHING. So instead of sitting around bitching about Bush, Conservatives had better be asking themselves just what am I doing to preserve and strengthen Ronald Reagan's victory? We SHOULD be making the case why this is a COMPLETE failure of the state and local govt that took MILLION In Homeland Security money and did NOTHING to prepare. So just what did all that money BUY us in N.O?
No, it is you Bushbots who do the conservative movement no favors. Malkin is merely pointing out the blatantly obvious. If we are to learn from our mistakes, we must first be willing to fully admit that we have made mistakes. It's the kind of thing that grown ups do.
YES, the authorities at the State and local had screwed up. FEMA does rely on State and local agencies to do their jobs. They (obviously) did not.Nagin and Blanco were incompetent. But, compounding this tragedy (not comedy) of errors was the fact that Brown simply did not even grasp this critical dimension and instead thought that things were more or less proceeding by the book. So who is the bigger fool MNJ? The fool or the fool who follows him?
That is the point that Malkin is making.
Like I said before, Brown at FEMA is like Ziglar at the INS.