Did you forget to include a sarcasm tag?
It is truly amazing the foresight that this president has had in planning for disaster preparedness. How many people are aware of the National Response Plan that the president implemented late last fall? Has this even been mentioned by the MSM? (rhetorical question - of course not... catering to the grade-school attention spans of their audiences)
http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NRPbaseplan.pdf
DHS or FEMA didn't have to wait for the local governments requests or lack thereof, and I'm kind of appalled that they let a corrupt governor take over their sphere of authority.
The administration has been way too deferential to corrupt local officials in the name of "bipartisanship" ... and their (let's just say the heads of FEMA and DHS) lack of spine is doing a disservice to the president.