So who'll be the right's designated scapegoat for this?

Gulfport Family, Escaping Katrina, Finds U.S. Aid Is Brick Wall

Destiny Beverly now plays with borrowed toys. The 6-year-old lost her own dolls when Hurricane Katrina ravaged her family's apartment in Gulfport, Mississippi.

With her father serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq, Destiny and her brother, sister and mother fled to a friend's home as the storm raged. A pecan tree blew through the roof, just missing the huddled family....

After four days struggling to find food and water, and avoid roving looters, the family managed to take shelter with relatives in Jackson, the state capital. There, they face a new ordeal: Two weeks after Katrina struck on Aug. 29, federal disaster aid has yet to reach the Beverlys and other evacuees in Jackson....

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, hasn't yet sent representatives to Jackson. At the state fairground, where the American Red Cross and other private and local agencies are attempting to aid evacuees, FEMA hasn't set up a table....

"This takes some time to happen," says James Shebl, a FEMA spokesman for Mississippi. The agency is training 600 personnel in Atlanta to take aid applications in the state and some of them will arrive in Jackson as early as this week, he says....

Oops! Can't blame Governor Haley Barbour -- he's a Republican. Oh, phew -- the mayor of Jackson is black and a Democrat. It must be his fault FEMA's still not there.

(Via DU.)