Well Bush and his cronyism has totally destroyed a federal agency and that is messed up:

The nation’s disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.

Crippled by years of poor leadership and inadequate funding, the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot be fixed, a bipartisan investigation says in recommendations to be released Thursday.

Though short on specifics, such as funding levels, the 86 proposed reforms suggest the United States is still woefully unprepared for a disaster of Katrina’s magnitude.

The recommendations, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, are the product of a seven-month investigation to be detailed in a Senate report to released next week. It follows similar inquiries by the House and White House and comes in an election year in which Democrats have seized on Katrina to attack the Bush administration.

With just a little over a month away we now find out that FEMA is considered broken beyond repair. Sadly I almost have to agree with this report but it is lacking a couple major recommendations.

First FEMA should be rebuilt and placed back at a cabinet level agency eliminating the added red tape created by Bush. If that is not followed then we need to instantly replace Michael Chertoff with someone more capable of handling the new “super agency”.

Second. A strict set of guidelines need to be developed as to who heads FEMA. It is no longer a position for cronies, but rather a position for the most qualified. I have been trained and dealt with emergency situations and if you do not know what they involve then you are screwed.

If these changes are not made then we will be setting ourselves up for another Katrina in the future and going through this all over again.