FIRE MICHAEL BROWN

I generally save my politics for New Patriot, but I need to put my Google juice behind this one. Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, must be fired. Now. Why? Jeff Jarvis, the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, and (egads) even über right-winger Michelle Malkin explain why the myriad depths of this man's incompetence must immediately lead to the unemployment line. Considering the untold number of lives lost, perhaps he should be dropped onto a random flooded rooftop, or locked in his own private "mini-Superdome" with rats, corpses and thugs. Let's see if he can "convey a positive image" in those conditions.

Of course, the responsibility for this pathetic failure of government doesn't end there. Andrew Sullivan summarizes President Bush's tumbling series of failures.

Our neoconservative blog neighbors at Power Line, astonishingly, fail to see any evidence that FEMA performed poorly in the current crisis. It's truly sad to see such smart people follow their ideology to the frail tip of the limb from which they hang, alone and blind to human tragedy and incompetent leadership. No, instead they continue their tired tirade against the MSM, apparently in collusion with the far-left... and the far-right... and everyone inbetween... just out to make Bush look bad. Hey guys - this isn't about Dan Rather. This is about the biggest disaster to ever hit American soil, and your boys in Washington vacationed through it.

I invite them to pull their heads out of their koolaid-filled asses and watch this video of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard on Meet the Press.

"MR. RUSSERT: Hold on. Hold on, sir. Shouldn't the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of New Orleans bear some responsibility? Couldn't they have been much more forceful, much more effective and much more organized in evacuating the area?

MR. BROUSSARD: . . . Let me give you just three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn't need them. This was a week ago. FEMA--we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. The Coast Guard said, "Come get the fuel right away." When we got there with our trucks, they got a word. "FEMA says don't give you the fuel." Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, "No one is getting near these lines." Sheriff Harry Lee said that if America--American government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn't be in this crisis." - from yesterday's "Meet The Press."