You say, "The United States Coast Guard started rescues on day one and had Homestead and FEMA actly as swiftly, there would be no problem. The "permission" allibi is legalese lawyer BS because they dropped the ball - The Coast Guard didn't wait for no stinkin permission"
There would be no Problem????? Come on - the MSM must be affecting how you see things. Believe me, there were lots of problems and the response time of the Feds had very little to do with it!
According to Ted Kennedy, Homeland Security should have protected us from the Hurricane, and if Bush had been competent millions of people wouldn't have been effected.
(He actually said that millions of people were now effected by the hurricane when we were promised that Homeland Security would protect us -- but now I can't find the transcript, I think it was a floor speech in the Senate).