Posted on 10/18/2005 3:55:57 PM PDT by curiosity
Sorry, it don't rhyme! Grade: D-
It wasn't specified. From the "reintroduction" of Harriet Miers on Monday (as if we forgot over the weekend that she hasn't much of a clue on Constitutional law.)
"You know, she's a very gracious and funny person," said Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the Office of Management and Budget whom Ms. Miers succeeded as deputy White House chief of staff in 2003. "I was racking my brain trying to think of something specific."
In the next breath, Mr. Bolten recalled relaxing with her at Camp David. "She is a very good bowler," he said. "For someone her size, she actually gets a lot of action out of the pins."
Because hate don't learn.
Hate goes on forever, and
special interest groups
pay trolls to put out
endless crap throughout the net.
If you take the bait
all your waking hours
will be spent in pointless flames
while trolls are laughing.
".... why don't you guys try dealing with the substance of the article?"
- Because in terms of substance, there's no there, there.
Anybody who tries to make the case that Presidents should appoint people they don't know or people they can't trust to positions where they can do them more harm than good hasn't been paying attention to the way this government has operated since around about 1776.
Yeah, he was learning on the job. Prior to those 2004 hurricanes, he had zero experience with disaster relief. Thankfully, there were competent state officials in Florida, so it didn't matter much in 2004. We weren't so lucky in New Orleans.
Nagin and Blanco were negligent in their first response duties
No argument there. IMHO, they bear the bulk of the responsibility. It doesn't excuse the Brown appointment, though.
Ten pin then. Good to know that. Thanks for the cite.
Nothing on earth can explain Norman Mineta.
Aw, Google screwed me.
If you image search "Chaney,"
you get lots of hits!
Why don't you try reading the article before criticizing it?
Senate hearings are a charade for public consumption by the politically barely aware.
Miers is still Miers. There will be no revelations. She won't miraculously discover a track record of sound originalist interpretation in the next two weeks.
The Senators who are going to vote against her will rephrase the same stupid questions again and again, and pretend to think about it.
The Senators who are going to vote for her will do the same thing.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
How did Brown come to work with FEMA?
"Mike Brown, Harriet Meiers [sic]."
This juxtaposition is extremely unfair. I certainly hope it is not an intentional distortion.
It was wrong when Clinton did it, and it is wrong when Bush does it.
Absolute nonsense. He was second-in-command to Joe Allbaugh. That's where he got his experience with the other 161 disasters.
Thankfully, there were competent state officials in Florida, so it didn't matter much in 2004
There were competent state and local officials for ALL of the other 164 disasters.
Then we get to Louisiana, and the local officials look like Ned in the third reader, and actually HINDER the FEMA response.
But, Brown takes the bullet.
If the writer were a dog, he would chew his own tail.
Who cares? He proved himself competent in 164 disasters prior to Katrina. He gets fired because Kathleen Babineaux Blanco doesn't want to turn loose of her National Guard and Ray Nagin's cops are lootin' and shootin' right alongside the thugs.
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