What they should have done

This here was intended to be part three of the five-part Katrina post (the last two parts of which are coming tomorrow), but, after pondering it much of the day at work and trying a couple different angles, I came to a single, obvious conclusion: there are already too many armchair quarterbacks. So-and-so should have done this; so-and-so should have done that. Well, So-and-so should shut up and get to work cleaning up the city and helping people get on with their lives. That's that.

I hate to sound like the President's stoolpigeon on this, because of course since he's taking a lot of flack he's simply saying, ad nauseum, that "we're not going to play the blame game." To get an idea of how stupid the White House sounds saying this over and over, read this amusing transcript on Wonkette of Scott McClellan trying to stick to the party line in today's press briefing.

I don't know what they should have done. Frankly, neither do Shepard Smith or Bill O'Reilly, though you'll note simple ignorance rarely prevents such people from making suggestions anyway. I won't bother.