Here's a neutral lead in to a story:

"There are more questions about the Bush administration's failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina."

Watch the video, and we learn that 100 countries pledged money and stuff -- sounds like mostly stuff -- and that since this was the first time other countries had really ever offered to help us, we didn't have a mechanism in place to accept the $800-odd million in aid.

Of course, lack of money isn't the problem. It's distribution. More than $110 billion (that's billion with a B - more than 100 times the amount offered by the whole rest of the world) of federal aid is stuck in Washington and Baton Rouge, where the nation's squeaky cleanest state legislature administers much of the relief effort. This story from August of 2006 mentions that $33 billion of federal aid had by then still gone unclaimed by the Louisiana state government. And Charity Navigator asks, where is the $4 billion that private charities gave?

The total of federal aid - the $110 billion figure, represents $200,000 for every resident of New Orleans.

It hardly seems that the piecemeal donations from all over the world would have helped much. But that doesn't fit the Bush Derangement System theme.

"It's slow and it's been frustrating," Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said. "We are grateful at the generosity of Congress, the administration and the American people. $110 billion is a huge amount of money. But it's more than just about the number. It's the quality of the programs, the efficiency that is used in getting it out to the people who need it."

Tell that to ABC, Senator Landrieu.

(Incidentally, notice the story below that video titled "America's Double Standard on Terrorism?" The accuser: Our good friend Fidel Castro.)