"His wife scares the living sh*t out of me in situations like this, I don't even want to speculate how her and her toadies would react."
His [Clinton's]wife is already firmly in control:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/5/100013.shtml
In an indication that Mrs. Clinton intends to make the Katrina disaster her cause celeb, she announced plans to travel to New Orleans today - ostensibly to be on hand while her husband unveils a new effort to raise relief funds for city flood victims.
The former first lady said she plans to introduce legislation to make the Federal Emergency Management Agency an independent Cabinet-level agency - the same status FEMA had during her husband's administration before it was subsumed into the Department of Homeland Security.
I think this establishes that fema is exactly where it should be.
When the governors and mayors fail, the feds had to step in. It makes 100% logistical sense to keep them with homeland security.