From the brilliant minds of Michael Chertoff and Ray Nagin:

New Orleans disaster plan: Get out of town
Hurricane strategy stresses evacuation, not shelters
Tuesday, May 2, 2006; Posted: 9:22 p.m. EDT (01:22 GMT)

If this weren't so downright stupid it might be funny. You know that teams of brilliant minds working in a think tank day and night for months on end came up with this ingenious plan. It probably cost the tax payers millions of dollars to develop this amazing strategy. The US Printing Office is still printing the volumes of data to support this theory. But read on my dear friends. "Amtrak trains will also be used for evacuation purposes, which we're really excited about," Nagin said. This is the man who let hundreds of buses sit idle while he moved everyone to the LOWEST point in the flood prone city. So now he is excited about using an Amtrak train to evacuate the city (which might actually work because there are only about 150 people now living there). But here is the really amusing part, guess where the Amtrak station is? Next to the Superdome, a mile from the Mississippi River. So instead of getting people to move to the higher parts of the city and having fleets of buses (metro, private, and school) at the ready the plan is to again get everyone to move to the lowest spot and wait for a train. And this is somehow exciting for Nagin?

President Bush, enough is enough. It is time to take the position of leadership that you have been given. First, you need to fire Michael Chertoff. If this was indeed his best plan he needs to be fired immediately. Don't ask for his resignation, fire him. If this was not his best plan then he needs to be fired for being so incompetent in dealing with the press that he didn't get his message out. Second, draft someone to take control of this situation and take a loud public stance on whatever you are doing. Let's get Rudy down there for a few months. Since the good mayor wants to have New Orleans a "chocolate only" city, then find some great black leaders who want to turn this around. But please, take control of this. Your total abandonment of this situation has become an embarrassment. When you allow imbeciles to announce a plan such as this you show your total unwillingness to lead. Don't show up for a weekend for a photo op on trying to help clean up or rebuild a house, take charge and start moving down there every weekend until it is fixed. And don't do it for a photo op, just do it because it is the right thing to do.

Its what Rudy would do!