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Wednesday, September 7, 2005

American Genius

Posted by on September 7 at 15:25 PM

The hurricane has rejuvenated what can only be described as American Genius. Read the quote below and be re-amazed by America the beautiful:

A more visceral indictment [of FEMA] came from closer to the calamity. Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans, said the bureaucracy “has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area.”

“Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot,” he told CBS. “Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don’t give me the same idiot.”