"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"

I would love to use that line in a tv spot, played over and over as the video is overhead shots of New Orleans flooded, and people floating on coolers.

Maybe you alternate it with Joe Allbaugh's assertion that "the President couldn't have chosen a better man to help...prepare and protect the nation," said when Bush first nominated Brown on Allbaugh's departure to go war profiteer.

Here's the Onion's take on the Brown mess:

Before joining FEMA, his only previous stint in emergency management, according to his bio posted on FEMA's website, was "serving as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight." The White House press release from 2001 stated that Brown worked for the city of Edmond, Okla., from 1975 to 1978 "overseeing the emergency services division." In fact, according to Claudia Deakins, head of public relations for the city of Edmond, Brown was an "assistant to the city manager" from 1977 to 1980, not a manager himself, and had no authority over other employees. "The assistant is more like an intern," she told TIME. "Department heads did not report to him." Brown did do a good job at his humble position, however, according to his boss. "Yes. Mike Brown worked for me. He was my administrative assistant. He was a student at Central State University," recalls former city manager Bill Dashner. "Mike used to handle a lot of details. Every now and again I'd ask him to write me a speech. He was very loyal. He was always on time. He always had on a suit and a starched white shirt."

Ha ha, no that's actually Time magazine.