While Nagin’s radio interview is being played up as critical of the President (and it is), it’s really an equal opportunity rant towards everyone who was fucking up–with the President just being the top of the food chain. The Governor doesn’t do much better though he doesn’t single her out because of the questions.
Watching Nagin operate in the media since Monday night has been pretty amazing. As I said before, he kept one step ahead of what the next problem was going to be and would specifically lay out a course of action. and there simply was no response to his pleas.
He saw some hope even in this interview when he talks about General Honore:
RN: I said I need everything. I will tell you this, I’ll give the President some credit on this: he sent one John Wayne dude that can get some stuff done, and his name is [Lieutenant] General [Russel] Honore. And he came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving. And he’s getting some stuff done. They ought to give that guy — if they don’t want to give it to me, give him full authority, to get the job done and we can save some people.
May I suggest Honore as the next head of FEMA.