Classy.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As Hurricane Katrina ripped into the Gulf Coast, the government's emergency management chief was making flippant remarks about his responsibilities, e-mails show.

"Can I quit now? Can I come home?" former Federal Emergency Management Director Michael Brown wrote to Cindy Taylor, FEMA's deputy director of public affairs, the morning of the hurricane.

A few days later, Brown wrote to an acquaintance, "I'm trapped now, please rescue me."

I don't claim that I wouldn't send silly emails if I were in a crisis, but Michael Brown (and a dozen others) all showed their true colours during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Very nice work, Brownie.

Québec Politics...

Paul wells says it best...

So today André Boisclair broke a month's silence on his "youthful" cocaine use (he used to enjoy the odd snort back when Lucien Bouchard was premier of Quebec) because he needed to rebut jokes that governor-general Michaëlle Jean made about him at the Press Gallery Dinner two weeks ago! ("Mr. Boisclair always follows the party line...")

Note to Parti Québécois: Pleeeeeeeeeeease vote for André Boisclair for leader.