Posted on 03/03/2006 6:05:19 AM PST by poisonivy27
What Dubya can be criticized for is appoint this whiner in the first place.
This headline is misleading, if Brown's words on Tony Snow's radio show are to be believed...he said the PRESIDENT was giving him what he needed, but the DHS officials were the ones giving him difficulties.
Brown: You were in charge Idiot! Why did you not do your job? Scum!!!!
Anybody who has ever worked for an elected official knows, or should know, that being a scapegoat is part of the job description.
I think Brown's right. The WH and DHS hung him out to dry. I think he was willing to take one for the team, but they wouldn't even give him protection from prosecution.
We can't be intellectually honest if be heap blame on Nagin and Blanco (deservedly so) on one hand, then call Mike Brown incompetent on the other.
History won't judge Mike Brown a hero, but it should certainly show him not to be the incomptetent boob he's been made out to be.
The WH blew it badly on this one by not going on the offensive and holding the NO and LA authorities accountable. Staying "above the fray" is the President's favorite tactic, but it only works about half the time.
Guess he forgot about the "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie" comment
Blah, Blah, Blah...........if this incompetent moron had done his job in the first place, instead of just sitting on his high horse, basking in the sunlight of his newfound "power", he would still have his job. GWB is fiercely loyal, and his firing ( ok, he resigned ) was due to nothing short of incompetence.
What I remember is the governor and the mayor--if they needed a scapegoat, why not use the real goats?
"The WH blew it badly on this one by not going on the offensive and holding the NO and LA authorities accountable. Staying "above the fray" is the President's favorite tactic, but it only works about half the time."
Correction. It only works about 1% of the time and the White House seems resigned to try it over and over again. That's why they sit at 30-40% approval.
I was trying to be kind...but you're right.
Brown, Blanco & Nagin frowned, people drowned.
Even here, for instance, he says he was ordered to stay in Baton Rouge. What if he said, "Hey, Mike. This is a crisis. You can reach me at the Super Dome." Would he have been fired? What happened to him anyway? At least he'd look like a hero instead of a crybaby.
Frankly, I suspect Brown wouldn't have been fired. Especially if he confronted some N.O cops on TV and said open this f'n bridge or move those f'n supplies. I think the WH would have said "Yeah, that's what we want."
I still think that the problem was more in the coverage than in the response. The assumption tht one can carefuly plan and execute a perfect response to an unpredictable event is false, to begin with. Then, if the reporters had actually covered what people were doing to get to people and rescue them instead of planting themselves in one spot and demanding to know why help was slow in coming we would have a better understanding of just how heroic the responders really were. Scapegoating shortchanges the tens of thousands of people it took to help out.
No one is going to disagree that the coveraged was extremely slanted...
...but...
The WH has had five years to figure out that the press is not going to give them an inch. If they have in fact figured it out, why waste so many cycles in a doomed attempt to get positive coverage from the MSM?
Brown: his name say it all, he is full of it!
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