In regard to your comment about Bush not taking charge earlier. . . .
One thing we need to consider is that I am sure it took Bush a while to realize how INCOMPETENT as well as UNCOOPERATIVE Blank-O was.
I mean who would think a governor would order the Red Cross away from the Superdome? Who would think that a governor would resist the federalizing of her national guard units? Who would think that a mayor would turn his buses into submarines? Who would think that a governor and mayor would play such petty politics when the lives of their citizens were at stake?
Drudge also mentions today that Bush was considering invoking the Insurrection Act but was talked out of it by his lawyers.
I'm certain that our president was just as dazed and flummoxed by the LA Dims/politicos as most of the rest of the country, and it took him a few extra hours to find ways to circumvent their idiocy and obstinacy.
Bush is an amazingly competent and compassionate president. For the life of me, I don't see how he can be so gracious in the face of all the vile and vitriolic venom thrown his way. He is a way better man than I, and God bless him.
I completely agree. But I think the Democratic leadership will gripe no matter what. They insult their electorate by saying if somebody didn't understand how to vote in Florida they must have been trying to vote for Gore, so they can find a way to gripe about this.
The only thing I could see doing in the future would be a sort of profiling of governors and mayors of large cities to deteremine which ones are likely to not know what they are doing and/or not be cooperative in case of a huge catastrophe. Then the federal government has to be ready to move when something happens and not even worry about them. I don't see that plan as a good one, the real solution is to have good governors who do their job, but if incompetenets like Blanco are going to be elected what's a president to do?