Americans aren’t buying the blame spin

A Gallup poll[*1] shows that the American public is again more temperate and rational than media reporters or bloggers:

When asked to identify who was most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane, 38% of Americans said no one was really to blame, while 13% cited Bush, 18% the federal agencies, and 25% state and local officials.

The 13% who blaming Bush are the Loony Bush-hating left and can be dismissed as irrational, knee-jerk partisans. If you think of the 38-18-25 division as being an approximate estimate of where the responsibility lies, I think that would be just about right.