NOLA: Someone hasn't done his homework

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Defending the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued Saturday that government planners did not predict such a disaster ever could occur.

But in fact, government officials, scientists and journalists have warned of such a scenario for years.

*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* Shades of Gerald Ford. Good to know the man most wildly ignorant of the situation is in one of the positions of highest authority....