I hope you people realize the far greater implications of what happened in New Orleans. This has nothing to do with incompetence. Brown and Chertoff did their jobs perfectly saying stuff is on the way while the SS... er National Guard were extremely effective at making sure no one got in or out except the media. What we have is a fascist government dressed up to look like incompetence with the ready availability of sacrificial lambs for slaughter.
I am going to hope that the political fallout from this marks Hurricane Katrina as a watershed event. In the meantime, be advised that the reverberations of this through the economy will bring on a major recession.