"Can I quit now? Can I come home?" [former FEMA director Michael] Brown wrote to Cindy Taylor, FEMA's deputy director of public affairs, the morning of the hurricane. [via CNN]

Fucking cowardly bastard.

Read this PDF. His first response says it all.

"Please roll up the sleeves of your shirt, all shirts. Even the president rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow. In this [crisis] and on TV you just need to look more hard-working."