Fire head of FEMA and Homeland Security now

You can read my posts for all the reasons but I'll add something that I've just mentioned in one comment.

When Democrats delayed the Homeland Security Authorization Act after 9/11 for months Republicans, conservatives, and the main stream media had it as Democrats just protecting unions. No, Democrats objected to the GOP added provisions for political appointments and dismissals. Many voted against their own bill because the GOP insisted on replacing civil service rules for appointments with rules for appointments by political patronage. Political hack appointments were something the federal government had been going away from for over 100 years. Under the new bill every time the White House changed hands a new set of political friends would be brought into important positions. Remember, the White House was originally opposed to the Homeland Security Department and only bought into it for a PR boost and after they tinkered with it to get some plums they liked.

Now with almost half of FEMA's experienced emergency managers let go in the last three years and the replacements chosen on the basis of political favors, including both FEMA and Homeland Security top officers, no wonder disaster management has been the biggest disaster. Originally there were three FEMA emergency response groups, Red White and Blue. They are down to Red and White now and those are sprinkled with no experience political appointees.

Neither Brown at FEMA or Chertoff at Homeland Security, the heads of the agencies, have any emergency management training or experience. Both were political appointments from GOP friends they had made in the anti-Clinton political wars. (Edited for readability)