Ezra Klein alerts us to this strategy conservatives will use:

This isn't a private vs. public debate. Contrast Clinton's FEMA with Bush's version to see that. But if the right has its way, that's the direction this'll go in. Democrats should make sure the public understands that Bush took a superb organization and destroyed it by handing control to a politically-connected incompetent. Republicans who demand we let him do it a second time in a less reversible manner should be laughed out of the room. read on