I think the vote on Thursday re: the Patriot Act was just a vote NOT to have it filibustered.
They are scheduled for a cloture vote on Tuesday..and then a final passage vote after that.
After listening to hearing after hearing about the Katrina response...I got the distinct feeling that all this was, was an EGO STROKE for the Congresscritters, in being able to point fingers at others, BUT, since they are the ones to establish Homeland Security...and include FEMA as a part of HS, instead of its own entity...
THEY need some fingers pointed back at themselves...AND their stubborn intent to make this a FED problem FIRST, rather than a city, county, state problem that failed so completely, that by the time the FEDS could LEGALLY do their jobs...it was past a time of "prevention"...and onto "rescue"...
Chertoff is going to be a "whipping boy" on all of the shows tomorrow, but, he is only the one they are USING to get to Bush, who ISN'T on the shows.