I still think the Democrats mangled the local response to Katrina purposefully to smear Bush.
I am personally worried about what they will do to Louisiana and Alaska to make the republican parties 2 brightest up and comers look bad.
I have always thought that the democrats got together and planned to attack the President after another terrorist attack. If you look back at the year leading up to the 2004 campaign, you see lots of stuff from the democrats, particularly John Kerry, warning that we weren't doing enough about container shipping. It struck me as odd at the time, because it didn't seem to be an area they would particularly concern themselves with.
I will always think that there was some sort of danger in container shipping that surfaced in reports to the Intelligence Committee, and they were using that information for political purposes. When the danger was stopped by whatever agencies or military actions, they had a plan they couldn't use against the President. Katrina came along and they decided to put it into action.
Blanco's refusal to aactivate the national guard, Nagin's foot-dragging on evacuation, the media wailing on air about the slow response time, all were pre-planned. They simply used it about a hurricane instead of a terrorist attack.
I used to see people saying that we wouldn't have national unity until we had another attack. All you have to do is look at Katrina to know that would not have happened.