The Bush people STILL don't get it.

 Sure, their response to Hurricane Gustav was better than their response to Hurricane Katrina.  It's hard to imagine it being worse.

What they still don't get, apparently, is how bad Katrina was, three years ago this week.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff told Brian Williams - yesterday - that Katrina came ashore as a Category 2, at the 2:09 mark of this video  http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/video-chertoff-on-missing-the-big-one/11184300/

In Scott McClellan's tell-all "What Happened", released in the spring of 2008, he said it came ashore as a Category 3 storm:   http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1586485563/ref=sib_dp_srch_pop?v=search-inside&keywords=katrina+category+3&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Go%21

Look, fellas, Katrina was a raging Category 5.  It was "downgraded" to a 4 just before the eye made landfall because its massive outer rain bands had run into land long before.  That nominal rating is lowered as the storm's punch is delivered.

Here are a couple of reminders of that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Katrina