You consider Brown to be bad because the media forced you into thinking he was bad.
Did you know he managed 150 separate disasters for FEMA in his term, including four simultaneous hurricane relief efforts? They all looked like the prelude and postlude to Rita in Texas. IOW, smooth and seamless.
Louisiana is a separate breed when it comes to incompetence. Brown ran smack dab into the Nagin-Blanco maelstrom, and was ground up in it, courtesy of Shep Smith and Anderson Cooper.
Michael Brown was a scapegoat for Louisiana decadence.
No, I arrived at that conclusion myself watching his performance on TV. As someone who was a USG bureaucrat myself for over 36 years, I can recognize incompetent political appointees when I see them.
Did you know he managed 150 separate disasters for FEMA in his term, including four simultaneous hurricane relief efforts? They all looked like the prelude and postlude to Rita in Texas. IOW, smooth and seamless.
I watched the entire 6 hours plus of Brown's testimony and heard him extoll his on-the-job expertise. Rubbish. It is the career personnel who run the show with the political appointee providing some leadership and political saavy. Brown did not have the expertise, experience, and requisite leadership ability to handle the job. He was a lawyer put in charge of a large organization similar to Chertoff. They were more interested in getting Blanco to sign an agreement than taking action. It would be far better to place a retired military flag officer in charge of FEMA and DHS. We needed someone with operational effectiveness and
Louisiana is a separate breed when it comes to incompetence. Brown ran smack dab into the Nagin-Blanco maelstrom, and was ground up in it, courtesy of Shep Smith and Anderson Cooper. Michael Brown was a scapegoat for Louisiana decadence.
I place the lion's share of the blame on Blanco and Nagin. However, Brown should have reacted faster to the situation at the Convention Center and Superdome, for PR purposes if anything else. Bush realized that the federal response was not error free and took responsibility for it. The Anderson Coopers and Shep Smiths should not have been allowed to drive the images and distort the facts. They filled the vacuum left by the Feds.