Finally.

For a week now, all we've been hearing is that the Bush Administration failed the disaster victims.

It's a legitimate point. The federal government DID fail the disaster victims.

But they weren't the only ones. The state and local governments failed them too.

For some reason, the media has given them a pass.

But that may be changing.

In the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin did not use hundreds of buses that were sitting in bus yards, some less than a mile from the Superdome, to evacuate citizens who were too poor to make their way out of the city. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco commented, "The buses could have saved an estimated 20,000 people if they had been used for emergency evacuations which President Bush had declared two days before Katrina hit."

Before Katrina hit, Nagin said he had the authority to commandeer private vehicles. Why didn't he do it? Why did he leave all those poor people in the city?