WASHINGTON – A Senate inquiry into the government’s Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration a new one Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation’s disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if any of their proposals could become reality in time. [Link]

OK, I messed with that just a little, just one word. I can’t help it. I don’t make this stuff up, you know. And you can’t let your deal go down.