CBS News | Brown Plucked From Katrina Duty | September 9, 2005?13:24:54

This was breaking news just a couple of hours ago; Michael Brown has been removed from running FEMA (Correction: from running the Katrina rescue/recovery effort. Expect his final departure soon though). The Google link for all the stories is here. Since then, rather a lot has happened.

His replacement: Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, and also in command of Task Force Katrina is General Russell Honore. I saw both in a rather hectic-looking live press conference earlier today – the closed captioning concluded with a slightly garbled and ungrammatical, but spot-on description: THESE ARE THE MEN.

Both look like they’re fully capable of getting the job done – in fact, they’ve been getting the job done for several days now. I’ll go out on a spiritual limb here and add: May God look with favor on their efforts and the efforts of the men and women they command and direct in the next few months.