My point is that they have been hollering all along about Bush not getting help there in time, and now it turns out that they had squandered funds earmarked for disaster preparedness. It is not so much as a shift the blame as it is an effort to go on offense so that no one sees that you have a crappy defense.
Exactly.
And this story begins to refute the cry that the Feds were slow off the mark.
The screaming from the "other side" is merely them preaching to the choir. It is what you would expect them to do and therefore, it is irrelevant. Ducks quack, cows moo, democrats squeal like banshees about irrelevancies and idocies. Life goes on.
What counts is that we begin to realize that Homeland Security has rapidly become a huge boondoggle with people building private empires and squandering public funds. It needs to be investigated, the perpetrators need to be sentenced and the public needs to know that's being rectified RIGHT NOW. That is not a political consideration it is a matter of accountability.
I would say the same thing if a republican governor and mayor were in charge. Party is irrelevant when it comes to disasters. Only results count.