FEMA Political Hacks

Today's Washington Post has a great article on the way Bush filled FEMA with his buddies leaving the defense of our citizens in the case of disaster up to folks as smart as he is. This, as it turns out, was a bad decision. Something we've come to expect from this President.

The article can be found here.

You'll need to subscribe to get the whole article. The opening paragraph gives you a good general idea though...

Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters and now lead an agency whose ranks of seasoned crisis managers have thinned dramatically since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.