No, Thank You.

That's apparently what the Bush administration said when offered Katrina-related help-

Just $40 million of $854 million offered to the United States to help the Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Katrina has been used so far, and most of the offered aid was never collected, the Washington Post reported in Sunday's editions.

Key supplies and services such as mobile telephone systems, medicines and cruise ships to house victims were delayed or refused because the U.S. government could not handle them, the newspaper said...

..."Tell them we blew it," one official wrote, according to the newspaper. But then she added: "The flip side is just to dispose of it and not come clean. I could be persuaded."...

I think it was Arianna Huffington who originally said it, but New Orleans is truly the domestic version of Iraq for this President. And neither is likely to see real help until 2009. I wonder if the President even remembers that he gave this speech 19 months ago? Maybe someone should ask him.