Alterman States It Succinctly

"Readers of this site will know that we sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration’s ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty. In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore. "

Maybe you have to be a professional to state it this concisely. Here's the skinny on Homeland Security Director, FEMA director Michael Brown, and friends:

"If you're keeping score at home, under this administration, the Federal Emergency Management Administration has been headed by, in order: the president's former campaign bagma...er...manager, and a guy who was fired from his previous job managing a luxury horse federation for being incompetent, and that this last guy's deputy, of whom you will see a lot on TV, qualified for that post by being a campaign advance man and a local TV anchor."