I guess I have to link to this yet again...
What FEMA does and does not do.
A bureaucracy is run by a bureaucrat. What do you think would have really changed if someone else had been Director of FEMA? You would get a rude awakening if you went through all the government positions appointed through history and checked qualifications.
If Brown is fired, I could care less. I barely knew who he was prior to this. I'm a little puzzed at why the hyenas aren't clawing away at Chertoff this hard.
I'm noticing how much this is like the Iraq arguments, which basically boil down to "someone else would have done it better." How? "Somehow."