Bush's Speech last night

"it Is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal auhority and a broader role for the armed forces"

I vehemently disagree with that. In fact what is needed here is competent leadership not patronage. Isn't it interesting that the top positions in this critical agency were filled by political appointees with little, no, or fake experience in disaster/ emergency management. What we need to ask is why this wasn't done. we don't need to just give more authority (power) to the federal government. This is the mistsake that we made post 9-11.