So they’re rushing to help. Aren’t many of the folk in NO still waiting for help? What a shitty shoddy administration.

From CNN.com:

Bush to Americans: ‘Help the folks down here’

AMERICUS, Georgia (CNN) – President Bush assured tornado victims Saturday that help is on the way as he toured towns in Alabama and Georgia that were among the hardest hit by Thursday’s storms.
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Speaking to reporters on Air Force One en route to Alabama, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Paulison said Bush’s visit was indicative of “the new FEMA.”

Before Paulison’s tenure, the agency drew fierce criticism for its handling of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Paulison told reporters that in the past FEMA didn’t intervene in disaster recovery until the state and local community became overwhelmed.

That system doesn’t work, Paulison said. After Thursday’s storms, FEMA immediately sent 14 teams armed with food, water, ice, tarps, plastic sheeting and communications equipment.

“We have to go in as partners, so that’s what we’re going to be doing,” Paulison told reporters.