People need Federal loan guarantees so they can rebuild. The insurance companies need to be investigated, and prosecuted where necessary to get back the Federal money they stole by assigning losses to the Federal Flood Insurance that they should have paid. HUD needs to start building housing, instead of just tearing it down. There are all kinds of things that need doing, that everyone knows needs doing, but no one is leading the effort.

There also need to be some actual, hard, written rules about what FEMA requires, rather than the current system that makes every rule the personal whim of a FEMA official. Lining up and shooting a few FEMA officials would be very popular among local officials on the Florida Gulf Coast who are still trying to figure what in hell they are supposed to do with the debris from the 2004 hurricane season, so they can work on the 2005 debris.

He’s so intent on bomb-bomb-bombing Iran and pretending all is well in Iraq that he hasn’t noticed what’s going on in his own country.