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Maybe Bush should have acted 10 days earlier. Would that have been early enough for you?

He opened the door for the locals to do their job AND to have immediate access to the full support of the federal government.

The locals did neither.

It is NOT the President's place to usurp authority from the Governors.

FEMA is not designed to be onsite within 24-48 hours and to expect that with devastaion as widespread as Katrina is sheer lunacy.

Yes, you may cling to your opinions no matter how silly they are.

Yep. You are absolutely right. Bush acted perfectly...no problem. The feds have no responsibility to save lives if the state structure fails....Do I have the latitude to denigrate your opinion?...Go stuff it. We will see how this sorts out but thank goodness it won't be sorted by folks who are so wrapped up in Bush worship they can't see the truth. It would have been enough for me if he had acted to send in the MPs two days before he did on Thursday. That means Tuesday PM when it was clear things were seriously broken and the Governor was not going to get it together. They would have been in the city Wednesday and the debacle at the Superdome, Convention Center and other places in the city would not have happened. It would have been enough for me if Tuesday FEMA had used Chinooks to airlift food and water in the massive amounts that had been prepositioned to the Superdome. That would have been enough for me..for starters...The fact that the LANG was not prepared to assume security is a MAJOR deficiency that was visible very early on and that is where the support from the feds was truly lacking. I don't blame Bush for anything in this whole mess except that last point. The FEMA thing has the hand prints of Congress all over it. But not putting down the insurrection is something Bush should have moved on fast. It inhibited all other necessary activity. Period. If that seems "silly" to you, too d@mn bad. At least now he is fully engaged and performing well.