Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “You talk about the quarterback, and let us continue the football analogy. If you have got the quarterback in the FEMA…”

“You talk about the quarterback, and let us continue the football analogy. If you have got the quarterback in the FEMA Director not having any ability to get things done, let us continue the football analogy and call Secretary Chertoff the coach, and the President the man in the front office. You have got both of those people who we cannot have any confidence in either. And I will take a less than left-leaning example here, an excerpt from Fox News Sunday, because the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Meek) talks about it not being intentional. The gentleman is right. It is not intentional. Their response was not intentional. It was just indifferent. The indifference is what is shocking. And you had Chris Wallace go through this exchange with Secretary Chertoff on Fox News Sunday this past Sunday. Mr. Wallace said, ``But Mr. Secretary, you know there are an awful lot of people around the country that are asking these questions and want to hear answers from you today. During the week, during this past week you seemed to minimize or not to know about a lot of problems on the ground in New Orleans. Let us watch some of those.'' And then he went on to show him some of the clips. And this was Secretary Chertoff's response: ``We are extremely pleased at the response that every element of the Federal Government, all of our Federal partners have made to this terrible tragedy. There have been isolated incidents of criminality.…”