I don’t blame Brown. FEMA is nothing but another tax sucking entitlement anyway. Better to have local civil defense volunteers on scene as disasters happen so they can act within minutes rather than hours or days.
I see the W administration, including W, as more and more inept every day.
I actually believe that Brown was in a no-win situation during Katrina. Chertoff was/is a hack, TSA was/is more concerned about its procedures than employing common sense, and the state and local first response was indeed pitifully incompetent. And Bush and Rove refused to fight back against Blanco and Nagin’s media finger pointing.