Thanks, Mary, for firing back.

5:55 P.M. - Senator Mary Landrieu blasted the Federal Emergency Management Agency for its "incompetent and insulting" response and chided President Bush for saying soon after the storm that no one anticipated the levies that protect New Orleans from flood waters would have broken. "Everybody anticipated the breach, including computer simulations in which this administration participated," she said.

Perhaps Democratic politicians are tiring of being the punching bags of the Bush administration.