"This can't be downplayed forever."
Well, what did he do wrong except call for an evacuation a day earlier? He's to blame for police leaving?
Nagin is the target of the Dems. It's about controlling the reconstruction money and protecting Blanco's involvement.
She immediately curried the Clintonites protection by hiring Witt. "Conservatives" unwitting partners in the Nagin/Bush blame game.
It is critical for the Dems and Hillary's chances for the presidency that the American public not be left with the image of failed female leadership in a time of crisis. Pinning this on Bush wasn't working so it is time for the you know what to flow downstream. Notice how often the Democrat Party sells out the loyal African-American.
Get a life, you are writing like a NO city official, or maybe someone on a Parrish levee board?