Republican threatens to go medieval on FEMA Director's butt

I don't foresee a happy ending to FEMA Director Michael Brown's career:
U.S. Sen. Trent Lott , a Republican from Mississippi who lost his coastal home in the storm, said Director Michael Brown's job is in jeopardy. "If he doesn't solve a couple of problems that we've got right now he ain't going to be able to hold the job, because what I'm going to do to him ain't going to be pretty," Lott said on CBS. (Reuters, Egan/Simao - 9/6/05)

Louisiana's largest newspaper also called for others in the administration to commit hari-kari:
Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially. In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day." Lies don’t get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President. Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, "You’re doing a heck of a job." That’s unbelievable. (Times-Picayune, open letter, 9/6/05)

It should be noted that the New Orleans Times-Picayune did not endorse Pres. Bush or Sen. Kerry during the 2004 elections although it had done so for the former during the 2000 campaign.