Irony

In an ABC News poll:

One reason for the poor rating is the broad view that the rise in prices is unjustified: In a rare example of bipartisanship, just 16 percent of Americans think higher gas prices can be explained by the drop in oil production caused by the hurricane; 72 percent, instead, think oil companies and gas dealers are taking unfair advantage of the situation. Three-quarters of Democrats and independents think so, and in this case, so do two-thirds of Republicans.

Half of Americans think they'll be driving less in the weeks ahead, but the vast majority of them say it's not conservation that'll be motivating them — but the price.

Michael Brown should resign

I think that much of the immediate reaction of placing blame in the aftermath of Katrina has been cheap and unfounded. I also think that, if any blame is to be placed, much of it rests at the local level, for not doing enough to be prepared for this situation, and not reacting to it quickly enough. But Michael Brown, director of FEMA has proven himself clueless by his public statements. Via InstaPundit, here are posts by Brendan Loy and Michelle Malkin explaining just how unaware Brown is and was of widely-accepted facts regarding New Orleans's vulnerability to a direct hit by a hurricane, and how poorly his public comments reflected facts about the situation that everyone following it seemed to be well-aware of. Not the least of which was his admission that he didn't know about the refugees at the New Orleans convention center until a full day after it was widely reported in the news media.