Perhaps, they've done it to save their asses because people would have seen in short time that the companies that were awarded the contacts were MASSIVELY cronyish in nature, and maybe they KNEW outright that they were wasteful in awarding them.... but just the fact that BEFORE, they wouldn't have CARED to rectify the situation... and now THIS.....

It just goes to show that the media scrutiny, the dedicated bloggers unearthing their scummy things up, and people's outrage DOES do something.... even if they're doing this to save their own hides, its better than it was when people threw up their hands in disgust and exasperation and sat complacent..... thanks for posting that... it really made my day.

Sen. Susan Collins (news, bio, voting record), R-Maine, noted that hundreds of thousands of hurricane victims remain in hotel rooms and emergency shelters -- despite more than $2 billion already spent by FEMA for 120,000 temporary trailers and mobile homes. Only 109 Louisiana families have been put in those homes, while tens of thousands of state residents remain in shelters, she said.

Perhaps so that Bush sometime down the road could argue how the poor are "living in hotel rooms" on government money and how we shouldn't be paying folks to live in hotel rooms...

Or it could be the fact that they're all incompetent...