A Fair Criticism of Bush

You can't blame President Bush for everything, but you can blame him for helping to take the usefulness out of government.

"...what we really should be asking is whether FEMA's decline and fall is unique, or part of a larger pattern. What other government functions have been crippled by politicization, cronyism and/or the departure of experienced professionals? How many FEMA's are there?
Unfortunately, it's easy to find other agencies suffering from some version of the FEMA syndrome."

Read on. (From the New York Times).