What do you do when your Administration is incompetent? Arrest the compentent, of course.

The sheriff of Forrest Co. MS, which is where I grew up, is being hauled up on federal charges of interference in a federal operation for commandeering two ice trucks that were sitting idly by while FEMA officials sat around completely impotent with their thumbs up their collective asses.

[update: it has been pointed out that FEMA sat around with their thumbs up their collective ASS, not assES. Point well-taken. -ed.]

I've met Mr. McGee on several occasions. He's a friend of my father, and a good man. In the days following Katrina, the federal response was so abysmal that he really had no choice in the matter. What boggles my mind is that this adminstration, which prides itself on taking decisive action (despite the fact that their actions are rarely decisive and almost always wrong), is pursuing this matter even though Sheriff McGee's response was clearly appropriate and timely. He clearly attempted to pursue the matter through the proper channels, futile though that was, and finally had no choice but to take the action he did.

This is yet another example of the incompetence of this administration. How much of this are we as a country going to take before we say enough is enough?