Posted on 08/29/2006 8:56:20 AM PDT by seanmerc
Can't post the article but if you want to read an article that'll make you want to hurl, go to http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_BROWNS_REGRETS?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-08-29-08-17-01
Having a little trouble getting a job, Brownie? Try for a book deal, it worked for everyone else.
Note to Brown; If your going to blame someone else, at least get that correct. I still say Nagin and mostly Blanco were to blame from the get go.
M. Brown was the fall guy. All he is stating is the problems he encountered. Seems like he is talking straight.
Brown blamed Blanco and Nagin earlier, but realized that the MSM wouldn't give him a pass unless he blamed Bush.
Exactly correct. The scumbags of the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms went to work immediately to smear Republicans by editorially morphing FEMA into a "first responder" while at the same time asserting that FEMA, Bush, and the Republican Congress reacted poorly (and even subliminally suggested that maybe the Republicans caused the hurricane by their environmental policies).
Naturally, most of these same Democrat newsrooms also went into full spin cycle to protect the Democrat mayor and the Democrat governor from responsibility. And no way would these Democrat newsrooms examine the welfare-state's role in the New Orleans circus as neighborhoods full of government-dependent illiterates flailed their arms in helplessness while harder-hit Mississippians simply rolled up their sleeves.
Brown is justified to be irked by the apparent unwillingness of Republicans to defend him, and the Republicans failed to defend him against the scumbag liberal newsrooms because, as usual, far too many Republicans cowered like scared bunny rabbits even as they gave away billions of Republican taxpayer dollars to pay for booze and lap dances.
I don't think there's any percentage in his public flogging of the POTUS. None.
Unless he's got a book offer or some other potential offer of employment, he should have kept his piehole shut.
One word for him: sellout. OTOH, that's what scapegoats do.
President Bush was blamed for allowing the hurricane to happen in the first place...
He was blamed for flying over without touching down, of course, he would have been blamed for 'creating a photo op" IF he had touched down...
He was blamed because he didn't go into 'Norleans in Jan. 2001 and change that poor "chocolate city" from a Hershey bar into a Godiva truffle...
He was blamed for vacationing in Crawford when Katrina hit, he should have been down there personally holding his finger in the dam/dike...
He was blamed for Blanco and Nagin being so damn stupid...
He was blamed for anything and everything "Brownie"...
He was blamed and and blamed and blamed and is still blamed...
I'm sick of this bull! Put blame where it truly belongs. WELFARE! And all of those who stayed behind just waiting for the anarchy to begin.
...but, but, Brownie, you did a heck of a job!
Compare TX, FL, and MS to LA.
This is what should be happening as the MSM does their aniversary hit pieces and FL prepares for a storm.
Let's not get crazy. Where is the evidence that this guy had even minimal competence in this job?
Sometimes, political hacks deserve to be tossed out on their rear end. Bush openly backed this guy and said he was doing a helluva job, and a year later he starts whining? If you were any kind of leader, you'd have either resigned in protest or pounded on tables until the job was done right, so I have NO sympathy for this a-hole. Republicans can't be beat up for not backing this loser when he clearly deserved to lose his job.
How was the job not done right?
Please.... don't tell me that even you, a longtime freeper, got sucked into the scumbag liberal "mainstream" newsroom spin and believe that FEMA was supposed to rescue people or act in any way as a "first responder".
Anyway, if you could specify exactly what, if anything, Brown and FEMA failed to do or did wrong, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Meanwhile, THIS POST may help you.
Regards,
LH
Your argument is with Brown--HE is the one pointing to errors--not me.
"I let the American public down. I am a fighter ... but for some reason, with Katrina crashing in on me, I didn't do it."
I guess Brown is apologizing for doing a perfect job. Kind of a weird tactic.
You are correct. Brown is a weakling. He was left to twist in the wind, but he should have had the guts to stand up for himself despite the fact that nobody else would. Even Bush finally caved to the liberal spin machine and abandoned him. The GOP is still paying the price for that and these days there's still Republicans running around apologizing for Katrina. It's sickening.
By the way, did you ever come up with any specific examples of where FEMA failed? Not yet?
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