Yesterday Bush ticked off a list of all the help that was supposedly en route to New Orleans. Today the mayor of New Orleans issued a desperate SOS. Something is clearly going very wrong with the administration’s hurricane response.

With grim televised scenes showing bodies lying in the streets or in the city’s convention center, a meeting place for many refugees, and groups of people throughout the area still waiting desperately for the most basic assistance, Mayor C. Ray Nagin issued a dire cry for help.

“This is a desperate S.O.S.,” he said. “Right now, we are out of resources at the convention center and don’t anticipate enough buses. We need buses. Currently, the convention center is unsanitary and unsafe, and we are running out of supplies for 15 to 20,000 people.”