but this might be one of the dumbest ideas in Congress: bring FEMA in for oversight hearings next week? From a Reuters story:

On Capitol Hill, a fellow Republican, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist asked for hearings on the federal response to the hurricane.
Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who heads the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, the panel’s top Democrat, said they would begin an oversight investigation next week into what they called an ”immense failure.” Katrina’s aftermath presents Bush with his greatest emergency since the 2001 hijacked airliner attacks, and comes as he is struggling with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency and rising discontent with the Iraq war.

ME: How about they fix New Orleans now with the reinforcements they’ve got and are getting? Deal with fixing FEMA and do all the blame-gaming after NO, etc. are in some kind of sane condition.

Here’s the Collins-Lieberman press release. Get your airtime later, guys.