This is America, part 2

And these are Americans

Lucrece Phillips’ sleepless nights are filled with the images of dead babies and women, and young and old men with tattered T-shirts or graying temples, all of whom she saw floating along the streets of the Lower 9th Ward.

The deaths of many of her neighbors who chose to brave the hurricane from behind the walls of their Painter Street homes shook tears from Phillips’ bloodshot eyes Tuesday, as a harrowing tale of death and survival tumbled from her lips.

"The rescuers in the boats that picked us up had to push the bodies back with sticks," Phillips said sobbing. "And there was this little baby. She looked so perfect and so beautiful. I just wanted to scoop her up and breathe life back into her little lungs. She wasn’t bloated or anything, just perfect."

Meanwhile, Mike Brown, who must have been hired to be the director of FEMA with the thought that he would never have to do interviews, or anything I guess; has been caught lying repeatedly about the condition of events at the New Orleans Civic Center -- so baldly apparently that even Brian Kilmeade on FoxNews has called him on it.