Well, you can be disgusted all you want. Maybe I've just been hardened by my own experiences in these situations, but I still think that at the end of the day, you have to get up off yer behind and make an effort to get to safety instead of waiting around.
It's obvious that three factors are in play here in New Orleans. The first is that the city government failed utterly in every sense of the word. The evacuation plan, which was unveiled mere months before this disaster struck. The mayor and city officials never even attempted to implement the plan. A significant portion of the police force walked off, failed to show, or joined in the chaos. This tells me they seriously underestimated or misunderstood the threat in the beginning and then lost control along the way. In any case, they were derelict at least, criminally negligent at worst.
The second factor is the state response. The governor is apparently another Democratically-protected class of person (i.e. fat, stupid feminazi). The more I see and hear of what she did or did not do whent he crisis was upon her, the more it seems as if she was determined to ride this pony herself, garnering glory the whole way. When it all hit the fan, she issued conflicting orders and then sat on the fence, making the situation worse. She should be shot.
Finally, the citizens of New Orleans themselves covered themselves in glory (not)with the looting and shooting. A good number of those complaining about not having been aided seem to have nothing to say at all about the repeated cases of rescue workers being shot at or about how they arrived at the decision to steal and riot rather than leave town or prepare better.
And we're sitting here talking about a man who took the decision to keep his citizens, the people who pay his salary, safe? Especially after what we've seen on television or read in the papers? Would you want a hungry, rampaging, armed mob running roughshod through your town? I doubt it.
I am now pissed at the plantation owners (aka Democrats).