Where's the leadership?

Let's not forget that New Orleans was not the only city effected. Here's a story on small towns that are struggling without aid.

Next, sorry to politicize this for a moment, though frankly I don't care what party the leaders are in. I care how they respond.

Our President: Bush was on vacation when the hurricane hit. Monday night he still wasn't doing much as things got worse on the Gulf. Tuesday he was fundraising and photo-oping out west while things really went to hell in New Orleans. Wednesday he finally got back to Washington. He still seems very detached as he recently stated that "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Umm..... countless people anticipated and warned of a likely breach if such a powerful storm hit New Orleans, Mr. President. Where have you been?

Our Vice-President: Cheney was still vacationing in Wyoming in the days following Katrina's landfall.

Our Secretary of State: Rice took a 3 day vacation to New York City AFTER the hurricane struck. She finally returned to Washington (I think yesterday).

How sad.

It fits with how Mayor Nagin of New Orleans described the overall federal response. It's as though they thought the disaster wasn't all that bad and they've been "thinking small". It's taken them five days to finally start realizing just how bad it is and set things in motion that should have happened long ago.

I hear Ted Koppel really ripped into the director of FEMA last night on Nightline, primarily concerning the Convention Center and how FEMA could possibly not know until Thursday afternoon that people needed help there. The major networks have been talking about the 10,000 plus people there for several days.