Why everyone is mad this time

Memo to President Bush: You can't escape blame for one catastrophic event by declaring the nation was unprepared and then expect to get away with doing that again in your second term. When everything you've done for the last four years has been ostensibly to make the "homeland" secure, it looks pretty bad when that security evaporates. The Post says this:

If Hurricane Katrina represented a real-life rehearsal of sorts, the response suggested to many that the nation is not ready to handle a terrorist attack of similar dimensions.

As you said before, "You can't get fooled again."