Gallup's poll on the Katrina/New Orleans catastrophe finds this statistic:

When asked to identify who was most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane, 38% of Americans said no one was really to blame, while 13% cited Bush, 18% the federal agencies, and 25% state and local officials.

So while certain, media hotheads, and others, may be focusing on the finger of blame, a plurality of Americans simply aren't. They're springing into action, collecting donations, giving money or saying prayers. Because that's what Americans do.

Michele Catalano sums what Gallup seems to put into numbers:

I'm not saying blame shouldn't be placed and people should not be held accountable for what went wrong. But to use this whole tragedy for political gain, to take up the mantle as cheerleader for your party in the wake of thousands of deaths, to have this attitude that this must be drawn along party lines, this must be an us v. them issue, that this is a call to arms, to gather your weapon of words and stand blindly and loyally behind your R or D and get ready to sling the bows and arrows until one of you is declared the winner by virtue of being blamed the least - that's just reprehensible.

Expect the finger-pointers to have some fingers pointed at them for their behavior as the days, weeks and months move on.

MORE: The New York Times' editorial is headlined, "It's Not a 'Blame Game,'" and then concludes:

President Bush blithely announced at a photo-op cabinet meeting that he, personally, was going to "find out what went right and what went wrong." We can't imagine a worse idea.

No administration could credibly investigate such an immense failure on its own watch.

And for good measure, the piece throws in a reference to Abu Ghraib.