Michael Brown successfully managed over 150 separate disasters including the four simultaneous hurricane-relief efforts in Florida last year.
And we are discovering that many of the "horror" stories put out over FOXNEWS and CNN were fabrications from the office of Ray Nagin and Police Commissioner Compass.
I thought Brown was a wuss until I saw him stand up to that limp-wristed Chris Shays. Brown got shafted.
We might just stay home.
Well, if the Democrats take over Congress, I'll know who to thank.
You won't have a clue who to thank, it will be George W. Bush, that you can be thanking.
"Managed." Well: he was head of the agency at the time. What's unknown is what his personal role was.
Either way, Katrina did as much damage as all of them put together - and that test, at any rate, he surely flunked. Bush certainly thought so.
And we are discovering that many of the "horror" stories put out over FOXNEWS and CNN were fabrications from the office of Ray Nagin and Police Commissioner Compass.
I don't dispute that point. I am not sure what relevance it has.
I still wonder how the fired head of an Arabian horse breeder's association is qualified to head FEMA.
Me: "We might just stay home."
Well, if the Democrats take over Congress, I'll know who to thank.
Actually, the Iguanas always vote.
However - assuming we don't vote third party - we might feel less inclined to ante up when the RNC hits us up.
The immigration debacle was bad enough. The spending spree was worse. But we could always tell ourselves Bush's picks for the federal courts would be far better than Gore's or Kerry's. Maybe she'll vote like Scalia. The problem - again - is that I have to rely entirely on Bush's word for that. Someone like McConnell would have done pretty much the same but wouldn't have faced five weeks of scrutiny about whether he was qualified or not.