The Blame Game -- Bill Frist Style!

"Things did no go perfectly, we all know that," Frist said. "A lot of the initial criticism was at our federal government ... I think increasingly people see that it was a systemwide failure at the local level, at the state level and at the federal level."

Frist continued: "And let's not forget the breakdown in the many other non-federal levels of government: The sub-local, quasi-state, pseudo-county, and semi-district levels of government all failed massively. And I think increasingly people see that those levels of government failed so completly that it was as if they didn't even exist

"So that's just a lot of systemwide failure we need to look at before we lay blame on the president or federal government, don't you think? Or even on the pre-federal government, which failed as well. As did the pre-pre-federal government."