Quite true, but the LA governor and NO mayor didn't offer their citizens the same sense of "I've got it under control," that Giuliani and Pataki did. And for Ray Nagin to start bad-mouting NY's "hole in the ground" was just stupid, IMO.

As for the federal response, or lack thereof, I don't care what anyone says, the victims of Katrina were, by and large, poor and black. I wonder what FEMA's response would have been if the hurricane had hit Newport or Nantucket.