FEMA

Under George W. Bush, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was pretty pathetic by all accounts.  Their response to Katrina was really bad, but that wasn't their only failing under Bush.  And what would we expect under Bush?  After all, he would only appoint cronies or big contributors to head up important agencies.  Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown had ZERO emergency response experience when Bush appointed him to head up FEMA in 2003. 

In contrast, President Obama really shored up the agency, appointing William Fugate who had run the Florida Division of Emergency Management.  Now, FEMA is getting kudos, EVEN FROM REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS, most recently from Chris Christie, the corpulent Republican governor of New Jersey, who praised Obama's and FEMA's response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy.

And now we have Mitt Romney on record as saying he would dismantle FEMA and send it to the states.  Republicans hate government so much, they want to take it over and dismantle it, spreading the lucre amongst their own cronies.  Same old story. 

I have faith that the American people will do the right thing and re-elect Obama.  What I do NOT have faith in is all of the electronic voting machines that produce NO paper trail whatsoever.  Most of these companies that produce these unverifiable voting machines are owned by Republicans, and, as above, I do NOT have faith that they will do the right thing.  It's too bad one of our major political parties seems intent on destroying the United States government.

Keep up on the (what ought to be scandals about the) electronic voting machines at The Brad Blog.