If you didn't get up early enough this morning to watch Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu look like a complete and total idiot on "Fox News Sunday," then head over here and check it out. Even if you showed me a CAT scan of this woman's skull and it showed a brain, I wouldn't believe it, because there's no evidence that it's ever been used.

Chris Wallace: Sen. Landrieu, I want to ask you -- and I'll ask you both -- but let me start with you about the local response. Was it incompetent and insulting [words Landrieu used last week on the Senate floor to describe the federal response to the disaster] for Mayor Ray Nagin to order a mandatory evacuation, but then to leave buses and we have a picture of them, hundreds of buses idle so they could be flooded instead of using them to get people out?

Sen. Landrieu: Well Chris, I was there, as you know, through the whole ordeal with state and local officials. And was right there with Louisiana Democrats and Republicans, city councilmembers, police chiefs, mayors, the governors, and I could watch what Haley Barbour was doing and Gov. Riley in Alabama. I am not going to level criticism at the local level. These ...

Chris Wallace: I'd like you to answer, if you will, this one simple question ...

Sen. Landrieu: I will answer it. I am not going to level criticism at local and state officials. Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day. Less alone getting them out of the city in front of a hurricane, and it's because this administration, and administrations before them, do not understand the difficulties that mayors, whether they're in Orlando, Miami or New Orleans, face. In other words, this administration does not...

Chris Wallace: But senator, senator, there were ...

Sen. Landrieu: This administration does not believe in mass transit. [No, I'm not making this up.] They won't even get people to work on a sunny day, less alone getting them out...

Chris Wallace: But senator, there were hundreds of buses sitting in that parking lot.

Sen. Landrieu: and I'll tell you what.

Chris Wallace: Can I just ask the question?

Sen. Landrieu: You can, but let me finish...

Chris Wallace: If I might...

Sen. Landrieu: If I could please, also the communication

Chris Wallace: There were hundreds of buses, we're looking at the picture. There are hundred of buses in the parking lot, the city and the state...

Sen. Landrieu: That's under water.

Chris Wallace: It wasn't under water before the ...

Sen. Landrieu: Those buses were under water...

Chris Wallace: They weren't under water on Saturday. They weren't under water on Sunday.

Sen. Landrieu: We had two catastrophes. We had a hurricane and then we had a levee break. When the levee broke, not only did New Orleans go under water, but St. Bernard went under water, and St. Tamany Parish went under water...

Chris Wallace: But they weren't under water on Sunday...

Sen. Landrieu: And Clackman went under water. And because the mayor evacuated the city. We had the best evacuation between Haley Barbour and Kathleen Blanco of any evacation I've seen. I'm 50 years old and I've never seen any better.

Chris Wallace: But there were 100,000 people left in the city.

Sen. Landrieu: They did 100,000 people left in the city because this federal government won't support cities to evacuate people, whether it's from earthquakes, tornados or hurricanes. And that's the truth, and that will come out in the hearings.

As you can see, there's no intelligence required to actually be a senator. I've criticized politicians before for willfully ignoring reality and sticking blindly to talking points, but Sen. Landrieu's performance is a new high -- or low. The real kicker is later in the same interview, Landrieu makes the following statement: "Now is not the time for fingerpointing." It's like real-life "Memento."

Over at Junkyard blog, they have the answer to this intriguing question for Sen. Landrieu:

Q: Sen. Landrieu, do you know what the difference is between a hurricane and election day?

The answer won't surprise you.