I guess you don't have a clue as to how the system works. It is supposed to be a collaboration. The locals tell FEMA how it can help because the locals know their situation better than FEMA ever could.
When the locals are clueless as was in this case, everything else falls apart. Why is it you MSM liberal listening people refuse to see the truth?
Come down here to Florida and stay a year or two. You'll see how it's supposed to be done. Or if you live up north, study how Guiliani handled his situation.
You will see that the only difference between the poor response in New Orleans and the excellent FEMA response in Florida is the professionalism at the local level.
If you think the federal govt should have absolute control in emergency situations, just remember what happens to anything the federal govt controls. Properly working local control with assist from the feds is always best. In this case the democratic locals were not up to the task. They deserve the blame here not Chertoff.
Nagin and Blanco deserve more blame. Of course.
This interview, almost two days after the levee broke, well before President Bush actually interceded and sped up the feds operations, is representative of how Chertoff did not understand the magnitude of what was happening at all.