No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up

Daily Kos has a number of diaries up talking about this: Intentional withholding of aid? : the evidence [updated with lots of links].
The level of incompetence displayed by governments around Hurricane Katrina is so staggering that people are actually thinking there was some deliberate action here to prevent rescues -- seizing on the opportunity for gentrification by clearing away all those poor people.
I don't know -- even thinking this way seems totally tin-foil. But as Lily Tomlin once said "no matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up". Yesterday, even CNN news people were talking about what a great photo op it was for Bush that the army convoy was heading to the convention centre as he was touring the area -- and I thought, oh come on. Now we hear that the Louisana governor questioned whether all the equipment brought in to repair one of the levee breaks was just backdrop, because the equipment is gone today.
Then again, maybe the repair crew just didn't have their paperwork done yet -- as Hunter notes, the missing requisition excuse seems to be moving to the fore as the reason why no one could get anything done.
After the tsumani, Senate majority leader Frist was touring the area and was heard to say to his photographer "get some devastation in the back".
Is Bush just saying "get some rescue in the back"?