"A fish rots from the head"

This is an excerpt from an open letter from the New Orleans Times Picayune [via E&P] to G. W. Bush:

In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he [Brown, Bush-appointed head of FEMA] said his agency hadn't known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "We've provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they've gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day."

Lies don't get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.

Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, "You're doing a heck of a job."

First we get the lie. Then we get Bush, a man who has never done a days' real work in his life, passing judgment on the alleged work that his appointee, Brown, claims he has performed.

The Federal Government - with Bush as its head - is rotten and stinks to high heaven.