Reply #15: It'll go nowhere. [View All]

[Igel]

Ultimately, funding isn't the prez's bailiwick.

That's Congress'.

The storm went through 48 hours ago; and the levee breaks happened yesterday, changing circumstances on the ground rather radically.

FEMA has to deal with more than just N.O.

And I agree: now the important thing to do is get all the people organizing things in N.O. and Mississippi and in DC cracking on preparing reports. That should gobble up all of their time for the next couple of weeks. Then we can have hearings for a few weeks, having reporters get long interviews. It'll keep Congress busy. Heck, maybe we can tie up things so much that they don't have time for the upcoming budget fights, or to pass continuing budget resolutions. Then we'll have *real* problems.

And maybe sometime after the heat breaks, in October or November, they can figure out how to help the people affected by Katrina.