Louisiana's Senator Mary Landrieu is lashing out at the Bush Administration for failing to go down to New Orleans and stop Hurricane Katrina.

"Let me be the first to take any blame," the Louisiana Democrat [Sen. Mary Landrieu] told a hushed Senate chamber on her first day back from the devastated Gulf Coast.

She then blasted the Federal Emergency Management Agency for its "incompetent and insulting" response and chided President Bush for saying soon after the storm that no one anticipated the levies that protect New Orleans from flood waters would have broken.

"Everybody anticipated the breach, including computer simulations in which this administration participated," she said...

But she said the federal government, by consistently underfunding flood control projects in Louisiana, "gambled that the predictions of countless experts" that the levies would break in a major hurricane wouldn't come true.

The government, she said, "rolled the dice and Louisiana lost."

Wouldn't it be nice if Louisiana had a voice in Congress that could propose legislation to prevent these types of shortcomings?