FEMA Director Michael Brown “is being removed
By on Sep 9th, 2005 at 1:36 pm
FEMA Director Michael Brown “is being removed
from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts,” AP reports. Don’t worry he hasn’t been fired and you’ll continue to pay his salary.
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In other words, nothing at all has changed.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:38 pmExactly.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:43 pmWell, actually, that does mean we don’t have to look at him anymore.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:43 pm“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job,” take the rest of this cataclysm off, full pay off course…
September 9th, 2005 at 1:46 pmI’m sure the same thing will happen to Rove in a couple of weeks when it is discovered that he did in fact leak Valerie Plame’s name, on purpose to threaten journalists investigating the lack of WMD’s. It’s funny how all these people around Bush take the fall when really it is Dubya who is steering the ship.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:46 pmDoes W steer with his feet?
September 9th, 2005 at 1:48 pm*Phew* I’m glad I’m paying his salary. It’d be a shame to add to our country’s unemployment rate. I like having useless officials creating problems. Besides, he did do an excellent job of one thing: I haven’t heard of any Arabian horses dying. And, um, maybe he’ll do better in the next disaster. Yeah, let’s keep him around!
September 9th, 2005 at 1:48 pmYeah we need to free up the FEMA director’s time so that he can attend to the real disaster that just broke the news… didn’t you hear? A group of terrorist horses in Montana are stampeding…
September 9th, 2005 at 1:49 pmThis is just shuffling the cards for a fresh deal.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:51 pmAnd if, on the long shot, Rove is found culpable in the leak investigtion, we will all take comfort when he is simply “reassigned” to another project.
In final insult, we will continue to pay everyone’s salary.
I think this sounds like a vast improvement:
September 9th, 2005 at 1:52 pmCoast Guard Vice Adm. Thad w. Allen
Go get ‘em Vice Adm.!
BTW,
September 9th, 2005 at 1:56 pmAs with all of our services I have a great deal
of respect for the Coast Guard.
People I have met are top-notch as best as
I could tell.
Great at rescue.
Tell ya what Dubya, that’s a heckuva flip-flop.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:57 pmWhat the heck else could W do? He is in desparate need of a scapegoat!
September 9th, 2005 at 2:03 pmDumbya is pulling him aside so he can pin Medals on his chest and slap him with a HUGE raise.
It’s the bushco way….
September 9th, 2005 at 2:06 pmI’m happy to know he’s heading back so he can prepare to screw up the next disaster scene.
September 9th, 2005 at 2:11 pmMaybe commrade Cheney didn’t like the verbal abuse yesterday and called der leader to whine. The outcome is that Brownie gets banished which in turn removes some of the spotlight. Its a start.
September 9th, 2005 at 2:17 pmBREAKING: The White House took Jon Stewart’s suggestion seriously, and plans to dip Mike Brown in Bronze, so that he can BECOME a medal…
September 9th, 2005 at 2:25 pmI must be working for the wrong folks – I would love to get fired and keep my salary and benefits!
September 9th, 2005 at 2:26 pmI say the next step is a civil suit. If he’s bad enough to remove, he’s guilty enough to prosecute.
Or, we can just drop in in Lake George – if he floats he’s a witch, if the gators eat him, he’s guilty! Fun.
So now Brownie goes back to Washington and does what? Nothing?
September 9th, 2005 at 2:32 pmStick a broom in his hands and get some use out of him!
So he lied on his resume, he’s been shown to be incompetent at doing his job, and he’s going to continue to retain his job and salary? Yep, he’s a republican. This is like bush running his three separate companies into bankruptcy and the press calling him a successful businessman. This CEO politics of protect the wealthy cronies during failure, but try to trash anyone who’s good who isn’t in your political party or wealthy is indicative of the sort of meltdown that is modern CONservatism. It’s irrational, insane and ridiculously incompetent. It also explains why the feel the need to ‘rig’ the election. Their subconscious must know they’re failure so therefore they must ’steal’ the election to ensure their success (at least in their minds). How sad is that?…
September 9th, 2005 at 2:36 pmIn the Bush administration, if you lie, cheat,
September 9th, 2005 at 2:59 pmleak, torture, bully, or fail, you will be rewarded.
Louis,
Apparently he ran his 3 separate companies the same way – and they all went bankrupt or had to be bought because they were almost bankrupt. Too bad the ‘greedy’ republicans who voted for him missed that very important and glaring lesson about his ‘leadership’ abilities. Texas is now 50th in the nation in education (remember leave no child behind is modelled on this ’successful’ program’). And Texas is facing huge budget issues because of his ‘excellent’ skills at making all of the wrong decisions. Bush is prime example of what happens when the Peter Principle is pushed to its ultimate state.
September 9th, 2005 at 3:02 pmIf the democratic party were running the country, it would look pretty much like New Orleans today. That is what you get when you run a government with entitlements to the poor. NO INCENTIVES TO DO ANY BETTER AND WHERE IS MY CHECK. It will take private enterprise years to fix what the local government has been screwing up for years and years. If I were an African American, I would be totally pissed off at the democratic party, because they have kept poverty at bay. They promise and promise better times, but never deliver them. If Blanco and company hadn’t refused the national guard, things could have been better last week. If Nagin had actually followed his city’s emergency plan, things could have been better. If the democrats would stop being the “mommy” party, more people would have evacuated sooner instead of waiting for their checks in the mail. (Like there was going to mail delivered anyway) Anyway, just had to get that off my chest. Have a great weekend everyone!
September 9th, 2005 at 3:20 pmThanks for stopping by Dick.
September 9th, 2005 at 3:28 pmDid you send that local to Gitmo?
Dick,
Private enterprise doesn’t ‘fix’ anything. Private enterprise ran Equador for years, and it turned into a mess. Private enterprise ‘running things’ is called a banana republic. Educated yourself you moron, your ignorance is only surpassed by your arrogance!
As for the New Orleans failures – is that why Brown was ‘recalled’ from washington and removed from managing things? FEMA is incompetent – and you’re an idiot…
As for poor new orleans, they were actually getting richer under Clinton – but every since bush took office the trend has reversed. The republicans are the mismanagers – the facts prove it, only apologists like yourself with your head up your butt are still in denial.
September 9th, 2005 at 3:32 pmHi Ryan,
Dick doesn’t want to fix anything he just wants
September 9th, 2005 at 3:47 pmthe tax money for himself and cronies.
That is what the government is for according to the NEOs.
And while we’re at it, why not reassign Chertoff – to the Superdome – since in his expert opinion, conditions in the dome “weren’t as bad as the media had been reporting.”
September 9th, 2005 at 4:11 pmWell, I have great news everyone. We, here in TN, just got nearly 300 survivors from Nawlins. They are being well fed, as they are starving. My wonderful bosses were able to get Shoney’s to donate a HUGE amount of food that they made especially for them. And best of all – DELTA and TN let them bring their pets with them. I am elated also that we were able to talk local pet stores into matching funds with us and buying an ample supply of dog/cat food. Two ferets and a snake came, but they must be kept at the zoo. The cats don’t find too cool. It’s okay, we have a wonderful zoo. We are gathering new underclothes and, I am most proud of, laptops to use from UT.
Sorry, off topic, but I am very proud of us here in TN. We may not know how to vote but we are good people who love to VOLUNTEER. We feel that these beautiful people should be kept near as possible to their homes. Our climate is not extremely different and most of us have that draaawwwl that they seem to appreciate. We have a lot in common, actually. And, THEY HATE BUSH and what he and his admin has done to/for them. Find a democrat that can speak like Bill and we will go BLUE!!
September 9th, 2005 at 4:12 pmThat’s a nice story P&P.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:16 pmThanks.
Brownie should expect a medal any day now.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:17 pmafterthought,
It’s even worse than that. The right wing hopes to bankrupt the country so badly we can’t afford social programs. It’s part of the ‘public’ agenda of the right wing ‘america for a new century’ crap – that looks way to nazi fascist for my taste. Hitler preferred to use corporations to deliver people to a better life – many of them straight to an oven. The right wing of any culture is inevitably heartless unfortunately. They seem to be the product of poor childhoods… We should make a nanny 911 intervention a requirement in right wing families – that and mandatory lithium..
September 9th, 2005 at 4:40 pm“The right wing of any culture is inevitably heartless unfortunately.”
You know, I hate to be that harsh, but underneath
September 9th, 2005 at 5:30 pmall the “culture of resonsibility” and “self reliance
(N/A for Chimpy and many others)” there does seem to
be real mean-streak, but maybe only some distance
to the right of moderate?
One certainly sees this in the trolls and right-wing
talking heads, well, that and flaming hypocrisy.
The minimum wage in LA for laborers is $9.00 per hour. Your beloved prez has decreed that this is too much, so they will not be paid anymore than the minimum wage in the bushies book.
But look at the savings folks. FEMA can get the job done for four dollars an hour cheaper per working stiff.
I just love our dickless dictator, dont you? Play that guitar boy, and get that goat book out again.
September 9th, 2005 at 5:53 pmafterthought,
It seems to be a natural progression of right wing values unfortunately…
Liberal values have given us a huge middle class, an educated population, a stronger social safety net that involves taking care of our old so they don’t end up homeless they way so many did in the 20s/30s, a welfare system that keeps people from starving to death and living in shanty towns the way so many did in the 50s and 60s, and the very ideas of being able to speak freely (although by all of the rhetoric of shut up your dissent from the trolls here, and how little free press is actually left), you’d almost not know it…
The right wing wants to return us to 1776 where they can search and seize at the will of the government, where the citizenry is treated with disdain and distrust, and where the wealthy run rough shod on the poor and have debtors prison. These aren’t american ideas, they’re 18th century british ideas that this country was founded to escape. So many children raised under the nixon/ford/reagan/bush propaganda are completely clueless that what they want ISN’T american values, and when it did exist it was a miserable thing…
September 9th, 2005 at 5:57 pmPablo,
Thanks for pointing this out. Using an emergency that was created by their own incompetence is always an excuse to make even more incompetent decisions for right wing dictators like bush… Create the disaster, then use the disaster to crack down on opponents. He would have made a recognizable Argentinian dictator…
September 9th, 2005 at 5:58 pmSo… Americans are still paying this useless SOB his full (and exhorbitant) salery, except that now he just sit’s on his ass doing nothing??
And most Americans can’t even afford to buy a decent car! Ya just gotta looooove the great American Way! Yep… The rich get richer, and the poor end up dead!
September 9th, 2005 at 10:51 pmI also heard that the minimum wage requirement will be suspended for work in cleaning up and restoring New Orleans. I also heard Halliburton has landed at least one contract. It did not surprise me.
September 9th, 2005 at 11:12 pmCheney mentioned something yesterday about the feds not doing the job all by themselves. So this massive project will be privatized to a certain degree, and the private corporations will pay less than minimum wage. These displaced residents who could participate in the salvaging of their own city will not even be paid minimum wage. The robber barons are here.
We have gone back one hundred years in labor relations. This adds insult to injury to the nth degree.
Why besmurch this man, his resume reads better than W’s?
September 10th, 2005 at 1:18 amCaio, lights out. This old man will hit the sack.
September 10th, 2005 at 1:26 amIt is a well known fact that bushie damn near bankrupted Texas during his tenure there. He had a lot of help from the current governor and members of congress such as delay.
Now figure this out, a lot of them still love the guy. It must be the incompetence and the impotency.
Like Molly Ivins who quoted bushie as he walked away from Texas. “its your problem now”.
Its going to be the same when he walks out of the WH.
September 10th, 2005 at 4:00 pmPablo,
Lets not forget texas is now rate 50th in education – so much for ‘leave no child behind’, unless you consider the possibility that this phrase plans to leave everyone at the same failure rate so bush doesn’t feel like the only lonely dummy…
September 10th, 2005 at 6:26 pmLet’s not forget some of the wonderful things “Brownie” brought us during his tenure.
1) “FEMA for Kids” – a fully interactive website to proviode entertainment and education about disasters to children. I am sure the kids in the Superdome got countless hours of enjoyment from this.
2) FEMA Flood Map Store – If you were in the Convention Center you couldn’t get food or water from FEMA because Brownie didn’t know you were holed up there. However, if you had just picked up your cell phone and called 1-800-358-9616, you would have been connected with a cheerful customer service rep from FEMA who would have been more than happy to ship you a flood map of New Orleans ($2.00 + s&h).
Both of these sites are accessible from the main FEMA page.
September 12th, 2005 at 4:21 pmDoes anyone know how much the taxpayers are paying Michael Brown to screw things up?
September 27th, 2005 at 11:32 am