Blame Game

This is a federal issue. That's who failed all the way through until they were embarassed into acting albeit belatedly.

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal showed how the Bush administration had systematically stripped power and money from FEMA, which had been painfully rebuilt under President Bill Clinton but had long been a target of Republican "small government" ideologues. The Journal said state officials had been warning Washington - as recently as July 27 - that the homeland secretary, Michael Chertoff, was planning further disastrous cuts.

Government's bad as long as we in charge aren't the ones getting the profits is how they seem to think about this matter. Blame us? How dare they.