This just confirms the fact that all state and local Democrats in Louisiana were helpless to save additional lives and that they themselves are above criticism.

Bush Faces Rising Complaints About Handling of Disaster

"Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, a Democrat, said today that she was so angry about federal failures and second-guessing that if she heard any more criticism of local efforts, even from the president, she might "punch" him."

Needless to say, the Senator will be on 60 Minutes tonight to blame the President for everything that went wrong.

How can there be any criticism after the heroic efforts of the New Orleans police?

Law Officers, Overwhelmed, Are Quitting the Force

The officer said he had also heard of an incident in which two men in a New Orleans police cruiser were stopped in Baton Rouge on suspicion of driving a stolen squad car. The men were, in fact, New Orleans officers who had ditched their uniforms and were trying to reach a town in north Louisiana, the officer said.

"They were doing everything to get out of New Orleans," he said. "They didn't have the resources to do the job, or a plan, so they left."

I don't even know what to make of this report:

NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans Police Superintendent Edwin Compass said Saturday, " No police department in the history of the world was ever asked to do " what his department did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And, his officers fought bravely doing it.

Compass said his officers have endured firefights, slept on the streets, run low on water and ammunition, and lacked radio communications during the ordeal.

Compass told CNN that 1,300 of his 1,700 officers are accounted for, and not a single officer was lost in what he termed battle or combat.

The superintendent also said most of the people holed-up in the Superdome and the convention center were "great people." He said there was a "very small criminal element," not much different from what his force deals with daily.