Helloooo--FEMA has NEVER been a model agency. Not under Clinton, not under Bush. I will agree that creating the Dept of Homeland Security and putting FEMA in it was a bad idea that possibly made matters worse at FEMA. But to say it was a "model agency" under Clinton is just plain wrong.

Don't let your partisanship blind you to what is going on. Democrats fuck up federal agencies just as well and often as the Republicans do. In fact, considering the history of who has held power in the federal government for the past 50 or so years, I think there is plenty of blame to go around.

But the buck stops with Bush. It was his administration that implemented the changes post-9/11. But they didn't do it alone: guess whose idea it was to create a cabinet level Dept of Homeland Security?

Democrat Joe Lieberman.