While it is indeed discouraging that a bid to create an independent Katrina Commission failed in the Senate and the House created today a non-bipartisan Bipartisan Select Commission on Katrina, it may help to remember that that it the 9/11 Commission took a long time to get created too. And it was largely through the dogged efforts of the so-called Jersey Girls and other Sept. 11 survivor families that that happened at all. That's one reason why the work that the Louisiana NAACP is doing to organize and give voice to Katrina surivivors is very very important.