Quote of the Day

"Unbeknownst to me, certain people in the White House were thinking, ‘We had to federalize Louisiana because she’s a white, female Democratic governor, and we have a chance to rub her nose in it. We can’t do it to Haley (Barbour) because Haley’s a white male Republican governor. And we can’t do a thing to him. So we’re just gonna federalize Louisiana.’" – Former FEMA head Michael Brown, alleging that even Katrina relief was filtered through Karl Rove’s partisan calculus.