The Information Super-Frog

I was thinking about posting something about this, but as louismaistros has done so sooner and better, please go read what he has to say if you haven't already.

So, is Michael D. Brown, former FEMA head, the most incompetent Bush appointee ever, or is the whole administration pretty much of this caliber, but extrodinary circumstances just made it clear in Brownie's case?

Katrina resulted in disaster scenarios that should have been in the contingency plans of officials at levels of government from local to Federal. They all seemed to have gambled "but not on my watch". They lost, and so did we.

That aside, what the hell was the Bush Administration doing putting this clueless narcisist, who was clearly in over his head at his previous job as a commissioner of the Arabian horse breeder's association, as head of FEMA? Surely, they knew SOME sort of natural disaster &/or a terrorist attack was likely to occur sooner or later.

What do folks think was going on here?

Were the Bushies setting themselves up for failure? If so, why? (To teach people not to rely on the government or something? To create a situation where more federal government funding/power will be demanded?) Or did they know that so much was underfunded and disorganized that they knew that Federal responce to whatever disaster came along was bound to be a compounding disaster, and they set Brownie up as a convenient patsy to take the fall for it? Or were they really so delusional as to think that Brownie and FEMA were up for whatever came along?

The BushCo (Cheney, Rove & Rumsfeld, CEOs) administration: Evil conspiracy and astounding incompetence are BOTH in their m.o. and are perfectly plausible explanations for their actions. Sometimes I can't tell which it is in a particular case.