First, let's cherrypick the truly excellent quotation:

In an Aug. 31 e-mail that [Marty Bahamonde, the only FEMA employee to ride out Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans] sent a co-worker, his frustration with Brown burst through.

Bahamonde had just learned, as he huddled in New Orleans' Superdome with evacuees, that Brown's press secretary was fretting about blocking out time for the director to eat dinner at one of Baton Rouge's busy restaurants that night.

"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!" Bahamonde messaged the co-worker. "I just ate an MRE" — military rations — "and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants."

We've said before that the Republicans feel no duty of care toward their fellow citizens; Brownie searching for a decent restaurant while New Orleans drowns is yet another small example of that.

But it gets better (or worse):

Bahamonde had arrived in New Orleans on Saturday, Aug. 27, and started sounding the alarm soon after.

He learned from city officials that Sunday that 40,000 of the 360,000 military rations that FEMA had promised, and five of 15 water trucks, had arrived. A medical team also failed to materialize.

The Superdome, the citydesignated "refuge of last resort" for people with special needs that had opened Sunday morning, was already running short of oxygen tanks for critically ill patients.

As city officials scrambled to collect toilet paper and other supplies from city offices to stock the Superdome, Bahamonde testified, he realized how ill-prepared they were to care for those who had not gotten out ahead of the storm.

Bahamonde began e-mailing senior FEMA officials, warning them of the potential crisis and urging them to send a medical team before the hurricane struck.

Katrina made landfall at 6:10 a.m. Aug. 29. Later Monday morning, he learned that hurricane-propelled water had broken through New Orleans' levees. He sent an e-mail before noon warning that the breach was a catastrophic development.

That night, he phoned Brown to tell him directly of the levee failure. He told the director that much of the city was underwater and that food and water were urgently needed. But he said Brown asked no questions.

"All he said was: 'Thank you. I'm now going to call the White House,' " Bahamonde said.

Senior FEMA officials, he said, repeatedly failed to respond to his reports on the deteriorating situation in the days before and after the hurricane devastated New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast. Bahamonde said he was at a loss to explain their inaction.

Well, there are some people who aren't at a loss. In fact, it's almost enough to make you believe that drowning New Orleans as part of The Plan ("Ethnic Cleansing, Anyone?")