Joe Scarborough does the right thing.

...the bottom line is that despite the fact the president was strapped with two governors who bungled this crisis badly, in the end it is the president who sends in the National Guard and FEMA relief.

The president's suggestion that the size of this storm caught all by surprise just doesn't get it. His administration was 48 hours late sending in the National Guard and poor Americans got raped and killed because of those mistakes.

A painful assessment from a supporter of the president, but also true.



Comment: I NEVER thought I'd see this, but he is actually blaming those who are wrong, EVEN the republicans. Any objective observer can tell that BOTH the local and federal responders to this did a bad job. BUT the reason these folks waited 4 days for water is purely a federal screw up. The local government should have been better prepared, but once the hurricane hit and destroyed VERYTHING, the federal government failed to do their jobs. He actually criticizes Bush. I never thought I'd live to see any republican criticize him. O'Lielly did at first, but now he seems to have gotten the memo about Rove taking his show away and is now ONLY criticizing the local government.




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6330851/