The Return Of FEMA

Before Bush, FEMA was a "model of efficiency and effectiveness". Then Bush and his ownership neocon buddies gutted such agencies, stripped its leadership of cabinet-level status and put unqualified horse trainers in charge. It was their heartless and calculated attempt at trying to shrink the Government, as conservative tax-meister Grover Norquist would say, so it "was small enough to drown in a bathtub". Thanks, guys. You won, the Gulf States didn't.

Good news is that the national joke that is FEMA is getting an overhaul with Barack Oabma in charge

"First off, the likely plan is to break off the agency from the Department of Homeland Security, a move that by itself would help restore the pride that folks at FEMA felt when it was an independent agency.

Second, there's increasing talk that former director James Lee Witt, who took over the then-troubled agency at the start of the Clinton administration and left it eight years later with a much-enhanced reputation, is coming back from retirement to run FEMA for six months to a year, to whip it into shape."

Next step would be to get the Department of Homeland Security an overhaul.

Just think how different Katrina would have been with anyone but Bush in charge?

Source: WaPo