"Despite the sheer magnitude of the disaster, homeland security expert Daniel Prieto said the federal government has to be prepared to pick up the slack when the private sector and state and local officials can't.

"The federal government is the protector of last resort. Dispassionately, that is where responsibility lies," said Prieto, research director for the homeland security partnership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

"I think this really points out how far we have to go, even after 9/11, even though there was knowledge of this storm coming," Prieto said."

Do you think Bush acted well in all this, PDQ? Did he act the way you think he should have?

I do not always 'bash' Bush as you put it. But then, I know you don't always support him, right?