Comments on: You’re still paying Mike Brown’s salary.

By: shirin

shirin — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:24:01 +0000

It is shameful the way things are being handled by this government. Brown had no experience in crisis management and despite his disgraceful performance with regard to Katrina, he is on the payroll of FEMA! Outrageous is all I can say. We should use those huge bucks to support people who have lost everything because of him and the rest of the government machinery. Instead we are supporting the greed of incompetent and inhuman people like Brown through our taxes. Shame!

By: Hank the Hammer

Hank the Hammer — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:34:28 +0000

Does anyone know if Mike Brown a is freemason? At this time, this is the only reason I can think of as to why he is still on the federal payroll. Special club has it’s privileges. As the facts come in, he cannot be trusted or believed.

By: mare

mare — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 06:51:18 +0000

I am glad for this site. Brownie was appointed by Bush so that the administration, while on “VACATION” knew that the country was in good hands.I.E. Drowny. The truth is this government had a plan “PNAC” look it up! Downing Street Minutes! We are not going to take this inhumanity any more! Torture is not America. I am mad at what our government is doing in our name!

By: Ryan Neat

Ryan Neat — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:40:40 +0000

ROY,

Yes, he should be doing ‘real work’, but clearly he didn’t do any of that as FEMA director and he collected a salary – so why should it be any different now?

By: to the right of you

to the right of you — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:56:27 +0000

he should be working for free getting all those ‘papers’ – whatever that means. and working from home? shouldnt he be in the offices, etc. – getting info? our govt is so outta whack

By: RPin

RPin — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:59:07 +0000

I’m a little concerned here. Bahamonde’s testimony was courageous and heroic. But, just like Joseph Wilson, the Bush administration is going to lash back at him some way for standing againt them. I seriously fear something bad happening to him.

By: Ryan Neat

Ryan Neat — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:50:23 +0000

he only FEMA employee to ride out Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans painted a grim portrait Thursday of an agency led by officials who were unprepared for the scope of the disaster and failed to respond to his increasingly desperate pleas for help.

For 16 critical hours, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, including former director Michael Brown, dismissed the employee’s urgent eyewitness accounts that the hurricane had broken the city’s levee system the morning of Aug. 29 and was causing catastrophic flooding, the staff member told a Senate committee Thursday.

Marty Bahamonde’s emotional testimony, backed by e-mails he sent from New Orleans as floodwaters engulfed much of the city, provides the most detailed eyewitness account yet from a FEMA official of the agency’s response to the disaster.

A longtime FEMA public affairs officer, Bahamonde contradicted testimony that former FEMA Director Michael Brown gave a House committee earlier and portrayed him as failing to grasp the enormity of the catastrophe.

snip.. The rest of the article is here.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/21/MNG3OFC26S1.DTL

My favorite part I’ll just include, which is:

“OH MY GOD!!!!!!!” Bahamonde messaged a co-worker. “I just ate an MRE (military rations) and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants.”

Pretty much says it all!

By: Bob Loblaw

Bob Loblaw — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:46:15 +0000

What’s he having for dinner tonight, that’s what I want to know. The man is clearly an epicurean, and since we’re picking up the tab, I at least want to know what the restaurant of his “choise” is.

By: Ablogistan

Ablogistan — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:45:48 +0000

Brownie still on the payroll

Former FEMA Director Mike Brown is still receiving tax-payer dollars as a consultant for FEMA, according to the LA Times. Brown is working from home “pulling all the documentation together” for the investigations into Katrina response, and his origin…

By: LP

LP — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:01:04 +0000

as long as you are loyal and keep your mouth shut, you have a job. it’s that simple.

By: Pablo in Mexico

Pablo in Mexico — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:37:43 +0000

This should not come as a suprise to you all.

DeLay, Rove, Cheney, Bush, Libby, all of them will continue to draw their salaries, even after convictions. Frist too.

There is no guarantee in the Bush administration that if you are a criminal that you canat continue to work and draw a salary, and then live happily ever after with a very generous retirement.

All government employees, political and appointed, from the past are still drawing their very healthy and generous retirement benefits. Whether convicted of a crime, or pleaded guilty of a crime. It makes no difference.

One on the government dole, always on the government dole. THATS AMURIKA FOLKS!

By: Darth Filibustrous

Darth Filibustrous — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:36:06 +0000

Be nice, people! Brownie needs more than 20-30 days to write a report… he has “traffic to encounter to go to and from a location of his choise, followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you.â€

By: ThomNYC

ThomNYC — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:29:53 +0000

Interesting that because there is no passed budget yet, federal positions needing to be filled are “frozen”. But, these failures at their appointed jobs just keep getting tax payers’ money for nothing.

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:27:54 +0000

Let’s see, the guy is totally inept and incompetent, arrogant and criminally negligent, so after he gets fired, he gets a one-month contract, and now a one-month extension on that contract to tie up loose ends? Since when did a fired employee remain on the payroll to tie up loose ends. In addition to his extended wages, he can now deduct from his income tax; his computer, his telephone, his home office, his postage, his utilities and his paper clips!
This ass is a poster child for what’s wrong with this administration.

By: Zookeeper

Zookeeper — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:26:54 +0000

Is Drownie still having a hard time finding time for dinner? Working from home, yah right. F*ck him.

By: hhh

hhh — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:11:24 +0000

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/index.html

Fitz has a website! He ain’t folding his tent!

By: hhh

hhh — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:10:40 +0000

Fitz has a website. Go to Americablog

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:48:23 +0000

this way he gets an extra tax break because that new computer he bought is being used for work reasons. sheeeeesh!!!!

By: OxyConservative

OxyConservative — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:34:22 +0000

I for one am glad that Brownie is still getting paid so he can “pull all the documentation together to aid in the investigations into the governmentâ€™s response to Katrina.”
I mean, if anyone else were to do this, we’d have to worry about them tampering with the evidence.
And now that Brownie gets paid to work out of his home, there won’t be any of those inexcusible disturbances during his dinners from those darn poor, afflicted people demanding help.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:30:28 +0000

Coincides with pork project reduction.
Love that new conservativism!