Michael Chertoff: The More You Hear From Him, the Less You Want Him in Charge of Homeland Security

[See Dedalus' post at Blah3 for other remarks]

So today, (Rich White) Homeland Security Chief, also in charge of depts like FEMA, Michael Chertoff, makes this HUGE point of telling us that even though the big bad media is forcing a wonderful guy like Michael Brown out of being in charge of killing even more people in Katrina-struck areas back to Washington to continue drawing his large salary without getting his endangered species loafers wet. Chertoff gets kind of nasty about it too, telling the media that they can't understand plain English.

This isn't the first time Chertoff has fallen over himself contragulating the FEMA guy either.

Neither Chertoff nor Brown deserve a pat on the back; a good swift kick is more like it, and doing hard time in the putrid waters of New Orleans (no manicures allowed) seems appropriate penance.