Conundrum: FEMA management is clearly incompetent.

[speedoo]

And they are lying repeatedly. If there were not such an emergency, they should be removed.

What to do?

[Old and In the Way]

1. Who appointed them and what was their qualification?

The #1 qualification that counts....how much money did they raise for Bush/Republicans in the election cycle.

[edhopper]

2. Remove them immediately

and replace them with long time civil servants who have worked there for years and know what to do.

[Lindsay]

4. This is sounding more and more

like freaking Baghdad by the minute!

[Robert Oak]

3. also reports of them stopping people from getting help n/t

[Lindsay]

6. I've been hearing the stories of FEMA preventing help

from getting through to the people since Monday.

I hope the New Orleans mayor (after the poor man gets some rest) will lay it all out on the line. His city and its people got screwed royally.

[kenny blankenship]

5. They're performing at the limit of their abilities

Staffing an agency that can in theory preempt normal civilian government with your own political cronies who happen to have no emergency management experience places a massive check-n-balance on its overwhelming power. The founding fathers would be proud. It also acts as a boat anchor when the agency must respond to a major disaster quickly.