Posted on 09/04/2005 8:38:30 AM PDT by wildwood
MEMO TO BUSH: FIRE MICHAEL BROWN
By Michelle Malkin · September 04, 2005 08:17 AM During his visit to Mobile, Ala., on Friday, President Bush singled out Michael D. Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for praise:
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Really? "Brownie's" job is to direct the federal response to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Let's review his public statements during the past week:
- He admitted that he didn't act more aggressively because as late as last Sunday he expected Katrina to be a "standard hurricane" even though the National Weather Service in New Orleans was already predicting "human suffering incredible by modern standards."
- He proved himself utterly clueless about the disaster unfolding in New Orleans. He claimed that the federal relief effort was "going relatively well" and that the security situation in New Orleans was "pretty darn good."
- He blamed the flood victims in New Orleans for failing to evacuate on time, even though local authorities failed to make municipal vehicles available to residents who could not drive or did not own their own cars.
READ MORE!!
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
I know what you mean. I'm surprised more liberals don't just fall down from heart attacks...they're always so angry.
Rational, logical conservatives sometimes ain't.
FGS
Sometimes, when you don't really know what you're talking about, you just shouldn't post anything, but I see you just couldn't stop yourself.
Now you've proven to anybody who has been reading about Hurricane Katrina two things: 1) how ill-informed you are and 2) how disengenous you are.
There is NOBODY on this forum who is better informed and who SCREAMED LOUDER about the dangers of this storm than Diddle E. Squat.
Nobody.
I smell a stealth troll.
Once again "dane" does not read the article or supporting links. Just shoots its mouth off.
What is it with all this crying on national TV and threatening to punch a sitting POTUS?
All it shows me is two things: 1) the authorities in LA are in complete and utter disarray and 2) that they are i complete CYA mode. They came out of the gate blaming anybody except themselves.
hi, bert.
competant is spelled competent.
speaking of.
Based on what exactly? They didn't speak as eloquently as a glib liberal in a time of crisis? Get a grip Mike.
FGS
I'm getting ready to leave for the afternoon, but I think the article was a drudge link sometime at the beginning of this weekend.
America's twenty-five thousand or so private and corporate employers get to hand-line, net, seine, trawl, long-line and even to deep-dynamite the world's deepest and most creative, innovative, productive and industrious talent pool before the feral gummint gets to dredge the bottom for what's left.
The gummint then gets to mix those dredgings with the sleazy and corrupt bottom-feeding parasites and serpents that attach themselves to every oportunity to syphon the public trough and with the quota hired.
We then put the resulting mix in charge of anything and everything likely at times of crisis, atrocity and disaster to be of any darned importance at all to any and/or to all of us.
And then we every darned time wonder that nothing ever gets done and who the Hell ever hired these creeps and pukes and crapheads -- and how come, say, Foggy Bottom's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs' delusional, inept and corrupt "Air Wing Director," John McLaughlin -- or George Tenet or Norm Mineta or Janet Rhino -- stay out of prison.
We did. We hired them, with our ignorance, our naivety, with the projection of our inherent goodness on to even that evil in our midst and right under our noses -- and with our indifference.
And we always will.
Right. I'll review your entire posting history everytime you make a post, just to give it context......sheesh, get a damn clue.
If after a thorough investigation, Michael Brown is deemed incompetent, fine.....fire him. My issue is with 'piling on', especially before the flood waters have even receded and the facts are not all in. You must be living in a cave to not understand that this President is under unprecedented siege. We are at war, not only against Al Queda, but with the enemies within. Under normal circumstances (no war, etc.), conservatives leveling quick criticism at the administration would be appropriate. At this time, however, it has an undermining effect and is strategically disastrous. It adds fuel to the fire.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.response/index.html
CNN is playing up some Brown statements on the situation in New Orleans.
Yea,
Michelle needs to quit getting the 'Bee Sting' treatment in her lips and check this out a little further.
By firing a man who has done the best he can do under the circumstances?
Never mind the fact that she's parroting inaccurate statements coming from the left.
You "Instant Gratification" people really suck.
FGS
Better informed than who, you?
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