Aside from starving black people for five days, what's the problem?

So The Astute Blogger seems to argue:

In fact, if you subtract the horrifying images of the Superdome and Convention Center from the "newsreels" (and your memories) there was next-to-nothing wrong with the federal response (or the federal, state and local responses in Mississippi and Alabama, whose coasts were savaged more completely by Katrina than was the city of New Orleans). And when considers the FACT that the Superdome and Convention Center debacles were strictly the result of local and state government incompetence, it means that there was absolutely NOTHING wrong with the federal response. PERIOD.

Clearly the "incompetence" he refers to is relying on the federal government to actual pay attention to what goes on in a city run by a Democratic Mayor in a state run by a Democratic Governor that isn't somehow related to him.

Argue what you want, but there was a poor federal response to this disaster. And to argue that more people died in such and such, so this wasn't as bad is kinda ludicrous. It's tragic for every single person who lost their life needlessly, and it's tragic for every relative of someone who died needlessly. To argue otherwise is just to apologize for the feds poor response.