On CSPAN-2 today, Carafano stated that the Heritage Foundation was “a non-profit, non-partisan foundation.”. Yeah, right. And I’m really George Bush writing this blog.

With that statement you can discount just about everything he says. Before Katrina’s wrath, we have an article he wrote titled “Broken Security Department” on May 30, 2005. He slammed the DHS for being a political and incompetent (Carafano’s own words):

“Chertoff at least has his priorities right. The department, created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, was the product of political compromise and best guesses. Watching it in action has shown that many of the compromises were bad and the guesses wrong.”

In the next breath he is defending the response of FEMA, a subsidiary of the DHS, to hurricane Katrina. According to the Billings Gazetter on September 5, 2005, Carafano said it is “beyond the ridiculous” to think that FEMA has been weakened since being put under the DHS. He also said on CSPAN-2 today that “news reports should not be used to evaluate the leadership of FEMA during this event”.

I can’t decide which lie is worse: the one about FEMA not being weak or the one about the non-partisanship of the Heritage Foundation. Perhaps Phyllis cracked the whip on him a bit.