"It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces -- the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment's notice." - George W - speaking in New Orleans Thursday evening.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050915-8.html
bottom of the 7th paragraph from the end..

One way a bureaucratic agency gets more power is to purposely allow a situation to get very bad and then propose legislation giving more power to the agency. GW is, in the opinion of many of us, going for tyranny. The slow response was deliberate and calculated. The bastards are using the disaster to simply gain more power for themselves.

Not much reported is Bush suspended wage controls for disaster area - allowing Halliburton to pay very low wages to those folks for work to rebuild. His friends now benefit from disaster - and the locals make less per hour than they did before Katrina. Conservatives applaud this.