However, as in all such events, evacuation is left primarily to the
local authorities. Thinking about this for more than 5 seconds will
show why. The locals know where the school busses to be used for evac
are parked, the feds do not. In spite of the mandatory evac ordert
from the mayor, he never used his own authority as head of the evac
effort under his own hurricane plan to use such busses. Even a half
assed evac would have saved many lives.

Playing eh blame game for Katrina never occurred to me until I saw
people Like Krause do so but I will not allow such crap. The Dems know
they are really exposed here as it was their officials who had the
primary authority to do things but didnt. Furhtermore, just like all
municipalities, contracts are awarded on the basis of political
patronage but in this case the Dems controlled the awarding og local
levee contracts. When people find that their loved ones died for
political patronage, democratic heads will roll.
Bush saved lived by begging the incompetent governor and mayor to issue
a mandatory evac order. Bush is the hero here whereas people will find
the democratic mayor and governor to be culpable in mass murder.
It is too late for Dems to ask for us not to play the blame game, they
started it and now they will lose big time.