If you haven't yet read Jim Rittenhouse's 8-part synthesis on the NOLA disaster...

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You can start here.

Jim takes a lot (a lot) of information and pulls it together into a remarkably coherent discourse on the causes, time-lines, and fallout of the many factors that brought New Orleans to disaster. It started well before Katrina, and it's hardly done yet.

Seriously, give it a read. All 8 parts.

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I agree it's too early to assign blame, though clearly there are some dropped balls both locally and federally. I can't see how FEMA didn't blow it, however.

On the race-baiting - well, I suspect if there was any real disregard for the folks in NOLA, it was because of economics and not race, since many of those affected along the coastline where the storm center came through were really 'lower income' rather than any particular ethnic group. The adults in the Dem party are of course those you're not hearing since they're biding their time; or those you're hearing who are asking for answers to specific failings, rather than flailing around pointing fingers.