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Out of touch Dems continue to exploit natural disaster for political purposes

Washington Times:

Congressional Democrats yesterday laid the blame for the flawed response to Hurricane Katrina squarely on President Bush, saying he was "oblivious" to the crisis immediately after the storm hit.
The Senate's top Democrat asked whether Mr. Bush prepared properly for the disaster while "on vacation," but a Gallup Poll finds that only 13 percent of Americans blame the president.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Mr. Bush, with Mrs. Pelosi taking the unusual action of recounting her private conversation with the president. The California Democrat said she urged Mr. Bush to fire Michael D. Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
"He said, 'Why would I do that?' and I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last week. And he said, 'What didn't go right?'
"Oblivious, in denial, dangerous," she said of Mr. Bush.
Mr. Reid, in a letter to the chairman of the Senate committee that will hold hearings on what went wrong in the hurricane response, asked: "How much time did the president spend dealing with this emerging crisis while he was on vacation?" and "Why didn't President Bush immediately return to Washington from his vacation?"
The White House, which has said repeatedly that it would not engage in what it calls the "blame game" over how and why the delivery of food and supplies was delayed for days after the hurricane struck Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and left most of New Orleans under water, fired back at Democratic critics yesterday, particularly Mr. Reid.

It is alsready becoming clear that much of the delay was caused by local officals. The Democrats are going to be embarrassed before this is over. When you look at Nagins waiting until 24 hours before landfall to order an evacuation, then failing to follow the city's own plan along with the state's refusal to allow Red Cross relief efforts into the city, it is clearly wrong to put all the responsibility for failures on FEMA. Most of FEMA's failings came from the cascading effect of the state and local failures and the misperceptions of what it could and could not do.