Rita is a tragedy.
I am tired of people all over the blogosphere heaving sighs of relief over rita, or gloating that the left won't have anything to rag the government over because Rita was not another Katrina.
That's like smiling after being mugged because the mugger was no Mike Tyson.
Homes are flooded. People have died. Millions of dollars in damages have been done.
It was handled better, yes. After the Katrina media grinder, any official, local, state, or national, who mucked this up would have been guilty of an impeachable offence. Nobody DARED move too slowly on Rita.
So the hurricane relief effort was handled better. Good. Now please stop saying that Rita was easier on everyone than Katrina. The people trying to find something left of their baby photos can't tell the difference.