Dickhead(s) of the Week - Hurricane Katrina Edition

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Oh, there are so many...

Let's begin with Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. With no experience heading up any kind of emergency management, Bush appointed his friend "Brownie" to head up FEMA. His response to Katrina was criminally negligent. Ultimately, though, even though Bushie said Brownie was doing a heck of a good job, the buck can't stop with Michael "Poop" Brown.

There's also Michael Chertoff. He's been slashing the FEMA budget ever since the Bush administration put the agency within the Department of Homeland Security, thereby eliminating FEMA as its own cabinet-level agency.

Let's not forget "The Shoppers." Shopper 1 was Condi Rice, who was spotted buying shoes in New York a couple of days after Katrina ran ashore. And people have been wondering where the F Dick(head) Cheney has been. Looks like he was Shopper 2, putting a bid on a $2.9 million waterfront estate near Donald Rumsfeld's weekend home.

Hal E. Burton gets a few points as well for being the primary profiteer of the New Orleans clean-up project. Let's hope he does a better job with this than he did with those meals that never got served in Iraq.

Surely Donald "Squinty" Rumsfeld gets some Dickhead points, as the man running the War in Iraq. Ultimately, isn't he the guy that sent all the National Guardsmen overseas so that they weren't around to help with this domestic emergency?

The right-wing media machine should be acknowledged as well. From cheap shots ("Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel") to blaming the mayor of New Orleans, there really are a lot of Dickhead pundits that oughta be ashamed of themselves, but naturally aren't.

And as more details become uncovered (once Bushie bows to the pressure of allowing a real investigation into what went so freakin' wrong), I'm sure we can add their names here.

Finally, there's no question about who the real Dickhead is. I've been reserving the DotW award specifically for the henchmen of the Bush administration, and/or lower-level players in the socio-political make-up of our fine country. But this week's winner is perhaps the most deserving Dickhead of all time. You know who it is. It's our beloved Commander-in-Chief, the man I was unable to confront even in my dreams, the POTUS himself.

George W. Bush. Dubya. Bushie. Dickhead.