And Damn It...

It took three days for Bush to stop napping to attend to the disaster; Cheney's still on vacation, Condi finished her vacation before she returned, and Denny Hastert's only comment was he didn't think it was smart to bother to rebuild it. The mayor of New Orleans leaves the city.

No local, regional, or federal preparedness for what would happen if one of more of these levies failed and they were bound to fail.

To let people go for days without food, medical care, protection, water, and living in extremely squalid conditions, sleeping with the dead....