Thursday, April 27, 2006

FEMA: That's All You Had To Say

A Congressional committee thinks FEMA should be scrapped and rebuild better, stronger and faster. Sounds reasonable in the wake of Katrina.

Of course, for me, this roundup of the FEMA news in the LA Times cuts to the chase:

"FEMA was independent — and highly regarded — until March 2003, after the Department of Homeland Security was created because of the Sept. 11 attacks. Designed to put all domestic security programs under a single umbrella, the new department combined 22 agencies employing more than 170,000 people."
To paraphrase the bumper sticker that's a popular item in the Clinton Library Gift Shop ("I Miss Bill"): I Miss James Lee Witt

Panel Says to Scrap FEMA [LA Times]
Bush Tore Down the FEMA That Clinton Built Up [The Hill]

A Katrina refresher:
TGIF [Jonworld]
Reports of Death Greatly Exagerrated? [Jonworld]
A Can't Do Government [Jonworld]
'Hot and Stinking Superdome' [Jonworld]
When The Levee Breaks [Jonworld]

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can tell you this! Folks that have never missed Bill, ahem, are starting to miss Bill....

Why hell, the Bush Administration is getting so bad.....some of us are even starting to miss Monica!

1:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hell, I even miss Bush Sr.

Inept? Arguably. Uninspiring? Perhaps. But I never thought it was an out-and-out dumbass.

8:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"it" s/b "he" in the previous post. Also, there was always the chance that he would do something competent. I don't think that chance currently exists.

8:26 AM  

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