Demagogue

Am I the only one who is shaking his head over calls by a U.S. Senate panel to abolish FEMA? It doesn't seem to me that anyone has yet proven that FEMA's failings during Katrina were agency-wide. Most of what hampered FEMA's efforts can be traced back to the man who was then at the helm: Michael Brown. And he has already been abolished, so to speak.

Even if FEMA has systemic, internal troubles to address, I frankly wonder, as does Slate.com's Eric Umansky, whether the Senate panel's report addresses those problems. Umansky writes:

The report calls for the agency to be replaced with (or is it relabeled as?) the "National Preparedness and Response Authority," whose chief would still work inside DHS but would brief the president personally.