Phew!!! What a relief!!! With this morning's apology from CloWnie, I was afraid W was going to go back to appointing ignoramus cronies!

In all honesty, i think i'd rather have duct tape man than mr. arabian horses. At least duct tape can fix things.

If the tape is deployed over PsychoKiller's mouth, okay then...

http://www.macliberals.com/wordpress/?p=303

Since he's Duct Tape man, you reckon this time someone will STICK to the job?

...nevermind.

HAHAHA! If you look closely at the video (in the background) when Bush says "I've been working" the guys in the background slowly look to each other like "Working? Motherf*cker, WE'VE been WORKING!"

LOL.

nice observation siggy.

the guy at left of the frame is burning holes into the back of Bush's head.

Olbermann rocks. He elucidates on the new FEMA head in his most recent blog post.

Hey everybody, duct tape is really useful. leaky canoes, duffel bags, air ducts, it's a wonder tool. Seriously, you can use it to fix almost anything, as long as you don't mind that the patch job looks ugly.

More seriously, it may have been dumb to have people stock up on duct tape, but that doesn't mean he can't organize emergency relief and management. At least the guy has a real background in emergency relief.

All in all Bush may indeed be getting less heat for this than he deserves, but when I look back on the last couple weeks I think that Democrats and left haven't been exactly intelligent on all counts either. We're right to say that the administration is incompetent. But I think we embarass ourselves when we bring out all our axes to grind (very legitimate ones, like the war, estate tax repeal, etc.) in a time of emergency. I mean we had the White House press corps hammering McClellan about the estate tax repeal and connecting it to the hurricane relief. If some Fox news reporter were grilling the governor of Louisiana about high property taxes and connecting them to hurricane relief I'd be outraged at the crass attempt to score political points at any time.

dende blogger---

I don't believe it's attempting to "score political points" to point out with justifiable anger that they are cutting taxes for the rich when there is A DEFICIT AND A NATIONAL DIASTER AND WAR!!!

We cannot afford all of it. That's why people are pointing it out.

We shouldn't be the ones to feel "embarrassed".

By the way all this bending over backwards to make sure blame is equally distributed is bullsh#t. Republicans are in power, they get to make the laws and they get to take FULL responsibility for their decisions.

It is ridiculous that he has no idea what is going on in his own administration.

Makes you wonder who is really controlling things; and feeding out limited info to GW on a "need-to-know" basis...

Brownie, Mike Shirt-Off and Duct Tape Man. Sounds like FEMA is being run by The Village People.

Jimmy Cricket is right. You're telling me the leader of the free world doesn't know that one of his cabinet members has resigned? The thing is that you dont just say "I quit". Dont you ask for permission to resign? And if so, who did he ask other than the president? Also, you're telling me that the public knows something before the president does? That doesn't make any sense. He's lying, big suprise. Then, an hour and a half after this he has already chosen a replacement? Bush is a puppet for sure. Who really has the strings?

I think we're overlooking the fact that this cronyism spreads to all areas of government. Under this administration, Treasury, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Defense have all seen a flood of resignations from competent folks after Bush appointed incompetent buddies to high posts, and in many cases, cut critical funding and/or ignored the advice of those departments.

It's the culture of disregard fostered by the administration for the missions of these departments that is at issue here. Michael Brown just provided us with one glaring example of the consequences that, folks who resigned in protest, like Richard Clarke, have been telling us for years, in letters of resignation, in books, and, far too infrequently, on the media.

Don't be fooled by Dubya's apparent mea culpa. I read the whole thing and came to quite the opposite conclusion of the mass media.

So, this is one of the guys that gave the advice about duct tape and plastic sheeting to be used in the event of bio-chemical attacks?!

Does duct tape stick to Teflon?

Jiminy: I'm not saying that everyone should get equal blame. I also don't disagree that the priorities of this government are screwed up. But that said, while I'm totally opposed to the repeal of the estate tax, the fact that congress is going to repeal it now rather than later will have almost no effect on relief and recovery efforts. The government's ability to borrow is enormous, and ill-effects of more borrowing on top of all the other borrowing we've done is long-term, not short-term.

Competence and resources are the real issues. Bush put incompetent people in charge, he is himself incompetent, and he did not budget enough resources for emergency preparedness. Those are the three issues we should be talking about when discussing the hurricane disaster, not all the other things we happened to be concerned about but which are only indirectly related. There is a temptation in times of crisis to say: "If only we'd cut/not cut taxes..." or "if only we'd not had Ellen host the Emmys/not invented Fox News..." or "if only we'd given aid to/bombed people in the Middle East..." then this wouldn't have happened! We should resist that temptation. Our favorite issues may indeed be important but are not the solution to every particular political and social problem.

Isn't it a great time to talk about the estate tax? The People can see where the admin puts their priorities when they can frame it against Katrina - the lack of levee preparation and reconstruction being less important then estate tax reduction/removal for the elite. Instead of being an indirect connection, perhaps it gets to the nip of the jist.

The new FEMA head may have a background in disaster relief, but is it a good record? Someone that suggests plastic sheeting and duct tape may be more dangerous than someone that does nothing. Brown apparently knew nothing about how to perform his job, but new guy seems to have ideas, and well, the duct tape one is counterproductive. Perhaps he thinks busy people are safer people.

In the 1995 Chicago heat wave, over 700 people died. The majority of the deaths were poor & African American. I'm sure there were PLENTY of gut-wrenching images of dead bodies being removed from over-cooked buildings.

Say... how come the media didn't go bonkers over the Chicago heat wave? How come the federal government wasn't responsible? How come Bill Clinton wasn't called upon to apologize? How come the senior senator from Illinois didn't threaten to punch Clinton in the face?

Say... if BUSH was president and the exact same thing happened... would the media reaction be the same?

SURE it would.