This is expected! Yet the Legacy MediaTM writes as though it's the very definition of corruption. ...as though no Democrat president would ever consider hiring friends to work with him. ...as though the whole Clinton warmed-over-hippie whitehouse had never happened.
A Bill Clinton appointed hack is sorta OK if he performs. Did the GW Bush appointed hacks in FEMA perform? I can't sort it all out yet but it seems they didn't.
Of course the governess of LA and the NO mayor have primary responsibility