[oceanview]

I agree with you - Brown and FEMA did a decent job under the circumstances, having to step into an insurrection and a non-existent command and control structure there.

but this is politics, watch the LA atty general play games. Brown is already the scapegoat, and its the administration that put him there.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I dunno? I see a blood trail that is leading ever closer to Nagin at the moment.

With Dewiit's slower reaction to a much smaller hurricane Floyd and many fewer victims, there are some comparative values to apply. Two weeks after FEMA responded to Floyd, Dewitt had not even began to address housing for the victims. How do we know this, because it was one "Jesse Jackson" (hardly biased) who interviewed him and elicited the answer from him.

The dem mayor, Clinton, and Dewitt let almost one thousand (mostly Black) elderly and disabled die alone in their suffocating apartments without AC. (nor no attempt to remove them to shelters) This during the great 1995 Chicago heat wave, hundreds later died from the effects of the heat. The Chicago mortuary was so flooded with the dead (neighbors complained of stench) when no one claimed the bodies, they buried them in mass graves. This is fact, this is what an independent inquiry later found, but the results were sweep under the rug with help from a complicit MSM which said naught, nor assigned blame.

These an other Clinton disasters will come out in hearings to judge Bush's performance vis-a-vis past false FEMA successes.