There are now signs that not only was Mayor Nagin of New Orleans unbelievably clueless during the evacuation and immediate post-hurricane period, but now there are doubts about his declarations that a large portion of the city is ready to be re-populated.

Big doubts in the Big Easy
Head of federal relief effort questions timetable for repopulating city

The mayor of New Orleans has set up an "extremely problematic" timeline for allowing residents to return to the evacuated city, which is still threatened by a weakened levee system, a lack of drinkable water and heavily polluted floodwaters, the head of the federal relief effort said Saturday.

Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen said federal officials have worked with Mayor Ray Nagin and support his vision for repopulating the city, but he called Nagin's idea to return up to 180,000 people to New Orleans in the next week both "extremely ambitious" and "extremely problematic."

As opposed to the mayor's claim of 10,000 dead and ordering of 25,000 body bags, I hope he's judging on the right side of crazy now.