Not only that, but nobody is blaming anybody for anything -- that makes it a double snoozer. Even good ol' Tony Snow was asking some Fed if there weren't any jurisdictional issues in the traffic jams on the way out, and the guy was like we just wanted to do whatever we could do to get the people on their way.
You're right. If they can't find controversy then that makes the whole LA debacle look worse by comparison, and it shines the light squarely upon where the biggest LA problems were. They're probably hoping something else comes along soon to take the spotlight off of it.