An Air India plane is seen at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday during a snowstorm that caused thousands of flights to be canceled in the Northeast.

NEW YORK – With many streets still unplowed, New Yorkers are griping that their billionaire mayor is out of touch and has failed at the basic task of keeping the city running, while New Jersey's governor is taking heat for vacationing at Disney World during the crisis.

The fallout against two politicians who style themselves as take-charge guys is building in the aftermath of the Christmas-weekend blizzard that clobbered the Northeast, with at least one New Jersey newspaperman noting Gov. Chris Christie's absence in a column headlined: "Is Sunday's storm Christie's Katrina?" Full story.

Is it fair to blame politicans for the aftermath of snow storms and other acts of God?

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