AMEN!This Idiot was not going to Evacuate the City until President Bush ordered him to do it!!!! He was too concerned about disturbing the conventioneers and partygoers and their money to care about his citizens!
Like all pols, this guy wanted to move up eventually - governor, congressman, senator. What this guy realizes is that not only has his incompetence resulted in the deaths of thousands (consequences to follow in DC on a national stage) but his chance to have shined - ala Guliani - is long gone. He now will have to deal with the fact that instead of skyrocketing political advancement with a successful evacuation and a quelling of looters he now will have the blood of thousands on his hands that will essentially end his political career. I am not asking for this to happen but would not be surprised if in the long run Nagin literally bites a bullet.
Many NO and some LA leaders will be convicted legally and, even more so, publicly once a federal review of NO and LA has been completed. The tragic good that will come out of this is that the corrupt gov't that is NO will be cleaned out and the successors will have a certain level of federal review for a long time.