FEMA IGNORED OFFERS OF HELP BY INTERIOR DEPT.

My God, was ANYONE at FEMA doing their job?

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Your Bush administration at work. Sure glad he's got his priorities straight.

Hundreds of federal search-and-rescue workers and large numbers of boats, aircraft and bulldozers were offered to FEMA in the hours immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit, but the aid proposals were either ignored or not effectively used, newly released documents show.

The Interior Department, which made the offers, also proposed dispatching as many as 400 of its law enforcement officers to provide security in Gulf Coast cities ravaged by flooding and looting. But nearly a month would pass before the Federal Emergency Management Agency put the officers to work, according to an Interior document obtained by The Washington Post.

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane Katrina, Department of the Interior