Mike Brown, FEMA director, incompetent

If you haven't seen this incredible diary, FEMA director Mike Brown is an incompetent fool forced to resign from his last job as "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" for the International Arabian Horses Association because of mounting litigation and financial disarray. That performance seemed a perfect fit for an administration that thumbs its nose at effective administrators.

Given his performance this disaster, we can bet he'll be getting a presidential medal of freedom and a nice promotion by Bush.

Meanwhile, Condi Rice has been shamed back to work (but Cheney is still on vacation), and Dennis Hastert was for flood emergency funding before he was against it.

Oh, and welcome to Bush's new America, where the third world is our world: