"It's going to wake the nation up again"

From CNN:

Mayor Ray Nagin told NBC's "Today" that he did not know how many bodies would be
revealed once the waters recede.

"It's going to be awful, and it's going to wake the nation up again," Nagin said.

Rescuers are still finding stranded residents, as well as people who did not want to leave the devastated city, the mayor said. (See video of restarted pumping station -- 2:14)

"We have to convince them to leave," Nagin said. "It's not safe here."

...
New Orleans Deputy Police Chief Warren Riley said that thousands
of people are insisting on staying in what he called "a hazard."

"We are
working with them to try to convince them that there is no reason -- no jobs, no
food -- no reason for them to stay."

Which can only make you wonder: is this a joke?

''What I intend to do is lead an investigation to find out what went right and what went wrong,'' Bush said. ''We still live in an unsettled world. We want to make sure we can respond properly if there is a WMD (weapons of mass destruction) attack or another major storm.''

But Bush said now is not the time to point fingers and he did not respond to calls for a commission to investigate the response.

''One of the things people want us to do here is play the blame game,'' he said. ''We got to solve problems. There will be ample time to figure out what went right and what went wrong.''

So the President is going to investigate his own Administration? Doesn't he have something better to do? Doesn't this raise so many conflict of interest issues as to make him look like an idiot? And does anyone really believe him when he says "other people" are trying to "make him" play the "blame game"? Has Karl Rove's spin finally become so useless even the President betrays it?

It may be that Mayor Nagin said more than he knew; this may well be the nation's wake up call.