Posted on 09/26/2005 4:02:52 PM PDT by RWR8189
6:44 p.m.
(CBS) — CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that Michael Brown, who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has been rehired by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it's response following Hurricane Katrina.
Why?
But we all know the relationship between CBS and truthfulness...
We also know how well the Bush family takes care of its friends. This one could go either way.
Politically it was stupid. But once all of the hearings are done, Brown will be vindicated.
It's a shame that he was made a scapegoat.
Wow! Now that's a strategy for doubling your pay! Plus all expenses paid. Who says gov'ment workers aren't ambitions?
What's the "other" way this could go?
The Art of the Deal.
Leni
And CBS has the forged documents to prove it!
My observation, It's Bush's Fault!
May not be factual but must be true because CBS wants it to be true!
Maybe it was like, "Ok, ok, you're hired as a consultant. Now what's the combination to the office safe?"
The other way could be the administration giving a quid pro quo for Brown to keep silent.
If true, then Brown is being hired by FEMA to evaluate the response to Hurricane Katrina that caused Brown to resign in the first place? Things that make you go hmmm...
That was my take on the situation.
I know this is not on the same scale but we recently had a guy leave the company and was immediately hired as a consultant.
That has happened several times, usually lasts for a couple of months - until, like you said, the new person has picked up all the pieces and is headed in the right direction.
LVM
No..what is stupid is weakkneed sissy folk who griped about FEMA's response.....WHEN THEY WENT BY THE BOOK!
WHEN THEY WERE ACTUALLY IN STAGING AREAS AND NEW ORLEANS WITH SUPPLIES BEFORE THE STORM AND TURNED BACK BY LOCAL OFFICIALS.
Brown did his job. FEMA is not a first responder. FEMA actually responded quicker than before. So having Brown is good.
What is stupid is conservatives who give into pressure and hang their own out to dry.
Brown should be in on this.
Which is about on par with truthfulness from the Bush Administration. (either one)
Don'tcha love it---the old "consultant" titie.
Pay without responsibilities.
Wish I could get me one of those jobs.
It MIGHT be that there were some VERY obstructive actions taken by the La Governor and NOLA Mayor waaaay prior to the hurricane getting to La........things that can now be shown (in due course) to have been conspiratorially against the administration.......and that Brown resigning was the only way for the administration to be able to get on with the job at hand. Plenty of political dirt in the Blanco/Nagin/Landrieu camps that needed to be distracted from, and the dems probably saw it as a double-whammy opportunuty in advance of the hurricane hitting.
You've just described exactly what a consultant is.
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