From The New York Times:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so fundamentally dysfunctional during Hurricane Katrina that Congress should abolish it and create a new disaster response agency from scratch, according to a draft of bipartisan recommendations proposed by a Senate committee.

This is all insider baseball. Bottom line, The Republican-led government failed the American people. You can overhaul and rename, you can fire, you can talk and talk, but at the end of the day, Americans want to be protected and want their tax dollars to be used effectively. It doesn’t matter what you call the department, it matters that there are people working everyday to prepare for natural disasters and if a severe storm, fire, earthquake or tornado hit, the response must be instantaneous.

We have seen the Republican leadership in action over the past six years. It took a disaster like Hurricane Katrina for all of America to really comprehend the emptiness of their governance. (To quote Sen. John Kerry from DoubleSpeak’s inaugural episode)

If anything; Iraq aside, the lagging economy aside, the failure of international leadership aside, the 2006 elections are a referendum on the Republicans and their response to the citizens of the Gulf Coast in their hour of need. For that alone, they ALL deserve to lose their jobs. Vote Democrat in 2006.

NEVER AGAIN