you want some interesting reading?

Here is a blog page on FEMA director Mike Brown and his history...

and here is a link from that page>

It seems the FEMA diretor has a bit of an image problem among those who knew him in earlier incarnations!.....and he was a big contributor to the Republican campaigns a few years ago.

Mike Parker was former head of Army Corps of Engineers who was forced out after questioning OMBs budget cuts. He says categorically that warnings were ignored.

from **Robert Novak's** column!!...even an arch-conservative admits that the deck was stacked!

"- The dismissal of ex-Rep. Mike Parker of Mississippi as assistant secretary of the Army running the Corps of Engineers produced bipartisan, bicameral outrage -- especially among appropriators. Rivers and harbors presided over by the Corps rival highways as a traditional source of pork, and Parker pleased his former colleagues by criticizing the Bush administration's cuts. It cost Parker his job, and the word in the Senate is that no successor will be confirmed without committing to be Corps-friendly."

I suspect that, as various columinsts get away from minute-by-minute disaster coverage, there will be more.