You are telling outright lies, Larry K. I suspect they were fed to you by others, and maybe you don't even know they are lies, but lies they are.

1.) Busses - Nagin didn't refuse to use busses. He wanted to use busses, but he couldn't find any people to drive them.

2.) Evacuation - Republican vs Democrat... Nagin and Blanco evacuated a much larger percentage of their populations than the Republican governor of Mississippi evacuated of his. Many people in Mississippi died who wouldn't have died had they been evacuated.

3.) Ordering National Guard troops - Republican vs. Democrat... Blanco had a few thousand National Guard troops on the ground. The Republican governor of Mississippi had a few hundred National Guard troops on the ground.

I'm not blaming the Governor of Mississippi for what happened. He, like his counterpart in Louisiana, knew, quite rightly, that it was the responsibility of the federal government to give assistance where the resources at the state and municipal levels were not adequate to address the magnitude of the disaster. The federal government failed both the Republican governor of Mississippi as well as the Democrat governor and mayor in Louisiana and New Orleans. The Bush administration failed the American people.