jimmyt is quite right that putting out the fire and rescuing the people always ought to get first priority. But trying to find out who it is who syphoned off the petrol (gas) from the fire engines and sent them to the wrong address is worth finding out as well.

Anyone who thinks there aren't plenty of decent conservatives clearly isn't living in the real world. I hope that one outcome of Hurricane Katrina and involvement in helping the survivors, will make some of these decent conservatives a lot more aware of the serious failings of the people in politics who have taken advantage of them, to try to impose a political agenda that is in no real sense conservative, and goes clean against the things that have made people admire America.