I guess setting the bar low is OK for performance from the Head of Homeland Security and is acceptable for your standards. Well how about this quote on Thursday by the former commissioner of the Arabian Horse Association, Brown, the head of FEMA - "we just learned today that there were 15,000 people at the convention center."
When one is incompetent they like to surround themselves with incompetents. There is no excuse for Chertoff not to know as members of his staff should have awakened him as it was Tuesday morning and it happened on Monday.
William Hung is to American Idol as Sarah Palin is to the Vice Presidency