Rally 'round Riley, Boys and Girls

Although reports within the state indicate that Alabamians believe that Governor Riley handled Hurricane Katrina pretty well, it appears that one of his party colleagues in Congress is painting a different picture.

CNN reports that at a congressional hearing regarding the response of government to that hurricane

[c]ommittee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Virginia, cautioned against too narrowly assigning blame.

"At the end of the day, I suspect that we'll find that government at all levels failed the people of Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama and the Gulf Coast," said Davis.

While there probably were mistakes in Alabama's response to the storm (nobody's pefect, you know), we have not heard the same kinds of criticisms of Riley and Alabama's Emergency Management Agency that we have heard from people in our sister states.

Perhaps Alabamians need to let Congressman Davis know how we feel about his dumping Alabama into the cauldron of failure that was stirred up to the west of us. You can contact Mr. Davis here and here