If he's not well-qualified for his job, and if he screwed up, then I say goodbye and good riddance.
"If he's not well-qualified for his job, and if he screwed up, then I say goodbye and good riddance."
I agree. And he may have been ok for the "standard hurricane" (if there is such a thing). But Katrina and the flooding may have been just way too big a task for him (and probably most other people). Katrina clean-up and rebuilding is going to take a loooong time. If a change is to be made, now is the time.
With that said, Nagin and Blanco should follow his lead. I still place much more blame on them!
MICHAEL BROWN, CONFIRMED BY DEMOCRATS [Byron York]
Amid all the bashing of FEMA director Michael Brown as an incompetent, unqualified, resume-padding political hack, one small factor has been overlooked: His job required Senate confirmation, didn't it? Indeed it did. And not only was Brown confirmed, but he was apparently confirmed by a unanimous voice vote -- when the Senate was controlled by Democrats. An enterprising blogger has found the transcript of Brown's June 19, 2002 confirmation hearing before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, then chaired by Sen. Joseph Lieberman. The whole affair, including tributes from Brown's home-state senators, apparently lasted less then an hour, and ended with Lieberman saying, "Mr. Brown, I thank you very much. I will certainly support your nomination. I will do my best to move it through the committee as soon as possible so we can have you fully and legally at work in your new position." The hearing was for Brown's nomination as deputy director of FEMA; it appears that Brown did not have to be re-confirmed when he became director.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
How about we wait until those two "IF'S" are settled?
How did this guy manage to be SO WELL QUALIFIED and DO SUCH a COMMENDABLE job the past few years with all the Hurricanes that devestated FLORIDA????
Could it be that the LOCAL and STATE level FIRST responders in Florida DID THEIR JOB but that the state and locals in NO were incompetent?
If the FEMA director steps down then I say that Blanco and Nagin MUST step down also.
I won't hold my breath.......the MSM and Dims will love this as it will put a stamp of approval on their protestations about the incompetence of the Fed response.