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?
"a sort of profiling of governors and mayors"
Thanks for your reply libsl. You really cracked me up. We can't profile IslamoFascists, but we may have to resort to profiling idiot governors and mayors.
Here's my profile solution. Maybe President Bush should just take the national guard out of all those Blue states on grounds of near homicidal incompetence and replace them with Greenpeace Greenies.
Then Bush would't have to ask to federalize the guard. He could just send them in when the Dims are on their knees and begging for rescue by the U.S. Cavalry.
Oh yeah, and before he sends them in, govs like BlankO would have to prove what they did with the record federal funds given them by the Bush administration for levee maintenance and construction.