See?
All that hand wring and calls for prayer and bumbling incompetence is just a facade.
If New Orleans and Louisiana are two of the most corrupt governments in the country, then the competition for the tops jobs there is bloody. Can you imagine a bumbling clown like Blanco rising to the top of the Capone organization in Chicago?
It's a facade.
I was at at a BBQ yesterday and someone there said that even though the NO offcials were at fault and didn't prepare properly for the worst case scenario, that the Fed Govt is ultimately responsible for not ensuring that they did. They said they would have to have been reporting what they were doing up the ladder leading up to it. Hence why folks are blaming Bush. I didn't stay for long.