Bush should have seized control of the state like his gut was telling him to.
Those damn people had plenty of warning. I am sick to death of hearing about NOLA and their continuous whining and assigning of blame to Bush. Their incompetence is home grown, and so's their corruption.
Haley Barbour didn't encounter all these problems in Mississippi that Nagin and Blanco have been carping about for months on end.
---Bush should have seized control of the state like his gut was telling him to.---
Under what authority?
the only way he could have done this was with the military, and there was no plan for that. But you are right: he should have been willing to step on toes.