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The Talk Shows Sunday, August 27th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Donald Powell, federal coordinator for Gulf Coast rebuilding and New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas; Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and FEMA Director David Paulison. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and FEMA Director David Paulison. THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Mike Brown; Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Donald Powell, federal coordinator for Gulf Coast rebuilding;...

Abbreviated analysis this week.  I'm trying to be good (honest) and not use my eyes much in the lead up to seeing my surgeon next weekend. My bet is 80-20 that the corneal transplant surgery (this will make number 4 in 26 years) is before the end of October.  We'll soon see (no pun intended... at least intentionally). Bottom line for this week, everything in the universe that is not perfect is the fault of George W. Bush.  As if we didn't know that already. The big theme this week is "all Katrina, all the time."  The DBM pulls out...

FEMA's cheat sheet for dos and don'ts of aid disbursement By Eric Heyl TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, June 16, 2006 To: All Federal Emergency Management Agency employees From: FEMA Director R. David Paulison Re: Disaster-related expenses Folks, First, I want to assure each and every one of you I have full confidence in your judgment in determining what constitutes a legitimate disaster-related expense. You people are trained professionals, after all. That being said, the Government Accountability Office is in a tizzy because we supposedly handed out more than $1 billion in potentially fraudulent disaster relief last year after those two big hurricanes...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown resigned Monday, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. The White House picked a top FEMA official with three decades of firefighting experience as his replacement. R. David Paulison, head of FEMA's emergency preparedness force, will lead the beleaguered agency, according to two senior administration sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made. Paulison is a career firefighter from Miami who was among emergency workers responding to Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and the crash of ValuJet Flight...