I think many folks, including my very dear friend Peter T, are missing the point. Bush is not responsible for the ecological damage in New Orleans, other than broadly with his moves to weaken the Environmental Protections. It is not his fault that we have chosen to try and control Mother Nature, and in doing so have built a city on silt and without the annual floods that used to build it up. Hence the silt is packing down and that is why the city is sinking.

The key point has to do with the changes, made in the interest of granting a $600.00 tax cut when you are setting out to make war, done to the structure of FEMA. He moved it from a cabinet level post. In placing it within Homeland Security without proper oversight, the communication and command chain was muddied up. That is why these folks are still arguing as to who is in charge of what. In this action he and his henchman took one of the stellar performers in terms of their mission statement, and turned it into another frickin bureaucratic mess with a bunch of mid level managers arguing about who is in charge of what while folks are dying. For this alone he deserves to be rebuked by the country. Homeland Security was his pride and joy, his shining example of private industry management tactics making government more efficient. And they failed miserably. And folks died.

Mick