Posted on 03/05/2006 5:16:49 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Michael Brown, former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; National Weather Service Director David Johnson.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pace; former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., co-chairmen of the Council on Foreign Relations' task force on U.S. policy toward Russia.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; retired Gen. Wesley Clark; comedian Stephen Colbert.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Gen. James Jones, NATO supreme Allied commander; Iraqi Parliament member Adnan Pachachi.
I can't either. Best I can figure, Brown's agency-FEMA- was determined that it will report to Homeland Security once congress invented DHS to appease worried constituents after 9-11.
Congress willy-nilly does this type of thing for political expediency. Giving no thought to how difficult such a change in structure to any business or agency is. A business entity would do re-structures but would clearly understand it will take some time to effect. Not to mention the inner fiefdoms and employee disruption.
Indeed, the creation of the Dept. of Homeland Security was just such a willy-nilly move by congress.
Also, to state the obvious, such huge re-organizational re-structures are even worse with bureaucracies, as one might imagine.
I suspect that the administration, having to deal with the reality of getting done what the congress critters enacted that they may look good, left the reporting structure pretty much the same. IE, FEMA would go on doing the job as it had done with the Admin winking an eye.
Except things didn't go well in Louisiana and there was the ability, heh, to point the fingers by the hysterical congress critters. Who likely knew the story but why bother with the truth when you can lie expediently?
If any group of people could be held responsible for the utter bogging and ineffectiveness of our government, it would be the congress critters.
Not to mention I suspect that Brown absolutely HATES Michael Chertoff.
Just a hunch.
The media/press can't report the truth about what is really going on
Because it would make them wrong and Bush right
NO! He needs an anti psychotic...like Prolixin..preferably in the injectible form.
On second thought, there is no medication for stupidity with a large ego .
Holy cow, Timmy is just beating the "Iraq war is bad" drum to death. He will not let it go.
Then, just like you... the next caller was a "republican" caller,
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Very odd, isn't it. We can't even trust CSPAN to tell us what phone lines they are addressing, nevermind that 2 out of 3 "republican-all-my-life callers" are anti-Bush.
What's Edwards' height? His shoulders look tiny.
Edwards thinks we have too many troops in Iraq. Looks like we're there for "awl". We need to bring others in (France, Germany?).
Edwards answer to what do we do now..."That's hard."
Yeesh.
Good Lord, is Edwards just stupid or what?
Edwards well; what a girlie man. Now this is a real man
I'm going to go with stupid. He just said it should be American companies running our ports. He thinks we should have a tracking system for these containers. He could not sound dumber.
Edwards need to go back home to grow up. He hasn't matured at all.
Not to mention I suspect that Brown absolutely HATES Michael Chertoff.
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They obviously did not get along. However, the media made Brown the scapegoat. Why do they not bash Chertoff for choosing to go to Atlanta for a Bird Flu conference on the day after the flood? Because they have chosen their whack-a-mole and it isn't Chertoff - yet.
I agree with that
Though Brownie needs to shut up a tad because he isn't helping himself the finger pointing
It was the media that made Brownie the escape goat and blamed him from day one
"May be Rove should ask shrink Renana Brooks commission, as she is going to get much higher income this time when those journos back from the trip.
HUH?
YOU NAILED IT!
My father once told me that maturity was accepting blame for your own faults....
Niether of the John- John's will EVER accept any blame for them failing...
MORE Katrina. NO, the media created the negative image of President Bush and his administration.
Nobody will mention Blanco on tape.
No.
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