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Feds followed SOP while hundreds suffered, and Bush and Brown were not effective leaders. This was a unique situation where we needed leadership and could not find any, local or federal.

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What exactly would this "leadership" have done better? Declare physics and logistics irrelevant and pull all the aid out of their hats? The argument set forth in the OP was that criticism of the government's response should be tempered by the knowledge that the Feds responded as fast as they have for previous disasters.

Now does this absolve government from the mistakes that were made? Of course not, but the left has made a career out of turning molehills into mountains with regards to President Bush.