in katerina, the bush administration ultimately did figure that out way too late, after they fired the arabian horse association guy, heck of a job and all the rest. ultimately they brought in u.s. army general, general russell honore, just on with chris the last hour, they brought him in to actually take charge and start to clean up what had been a failed, feckless, federal mess. but by the time the general cain and started to get things in shape, for the 2,000 americans who died in that disaster, it was too late. no, that wasn't the only reason we got president obama as the successor to republican president george walker bush. george w. bush was a bad president and his presidency was full of very terrible things. in katrina, that course and desperate technical failure to take federal responsibility for a national disaster was just a different kind of bad. you know how people say you had one job. well, i mean, it's a president's job to declare a national disaster, a national emergency. but then by definition it is the president's job to get the federal government to run the response t