FEMA director Brown resigns

Finally, one of the idiots in this administration does something right. Let this be a lesson to Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove, Chertoff, Bush, aw fuck, the whole lot of them. When you are a miserable failure at your job, you let someone else try it. Not that I expect this to make anything better, after all, his successor will also be a Bush appointee, which is pretty much a guarantee of incompetence.

I also like the way Bush twists things around, like here:

A reporter asked Bush about criticism that a racial component was behind the government's slow response to the people left without help after Katrina hit.

"The storm didn't discriminate, and neither will the recovery effort," Bush said. "When those Coast Guard choppers -- many of whom were first on the scene -- were pulling people off roofs, they didn't check the color of a person's skin, they wanted to save lives.

Well, dickhead, no one said that the rescuers were discriminating or that the people that actually showed up to help were discriminating, they were talking about the overall response and the delay in the response disproportionately affecting blacks. Which is pretty hard to argue with when you see any video from around the convention center and Superdome in the days after the storm. Of course, leave it to you to equate criticism of the administration with criticism of the individuals actually doing the work. And why wouldn't you, it's worked very well for you with the war in Iraq.

Assholes.