I have been mad at him since he started the handwringing and criticism of President Bush over Katrina. You are right, he is disgusting. Pfui.
Oh, the governors are not happy at all. They don't want the President to have that right.
Yet, they will be the first to blast the President in the event of another disaster.
You're both right, Newt is an opportunist and his unprincipled factless backstabbing of the President during Katerina was a sad display on his part, as are his attacks on Condi.
What bothers me most about the governors is that they seem to be falling in behind Blanco on this, as if they constituted some sort of union, when she's basically saying the President should have "shown decisiveness" by breaking the law rather than stand for her own incompetence.