From Bryan Preston of Junkyard Blog over at Michelle Malkin:
Instead of acknowledging the faults that lie at city level and stepping in to organize relief efforts, Louisiana and New Orleans officials spent most of last week lashing out at the Bush administration, though its response was three times faster than the response to hurricane Andrew just 13 years ago. Government actually got quicker at doing something, in spite of the massive increase in the number of lawyers on the public dime in the intervening years. The locals blamed the feds even though the administration, whatever its faults, was ahead of all local officials when it came to declaring a state of emergency and requesting a mandatory evacuation. A massive butt-covering exercise is underway in Louisiana as I write, so massive it is second only to the actual relief and law and order efforts going on in the vast Katrina destruction zone.
The butt-covering extends to Washington, as Lefties band together to further protect Landrieu and also to try to further villify Bush while painting Clinton as some sort of domestic god.
Of course, the response was faster....I BLAME BUSH...
