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September 09, 2005
Scapegoat + incompetent
Brown is both: he's a scapegoat, and he's incompetent. So taking him off Katrina duty is a start. Getting him out of FEMA altogether is another step yet to be taken. Getting FEMA out of Homeland Security = yet another step, and Hillary's taking it. Getting U.S. budgeting priorities actually focused on the security of its citizens (which apparently isn't the same thing as "homeland security"): now, that would be a very fine step, indeed. So yes, I'm glad to see Brown the Bungler taken off the Katrina job. And yes, I'm hoping that isn't going to be the Regime's PR fix for this fiasco. I'm hoping they'll be held to account by a public whose indignation doesn't abate.
P.S. Brown has announced the end of the debit card program, and even the Dallas Morning News acknowledges that the program privileged B***'s home state.
The Sydney Morning Herald provides gloves-off commentary: "None of the men entrusted with preparing for or responding to such a disaster had even a moment's experience in emergency service. The three agency leaders had no qualification other than blind loyalty to the Republican Party." Kinda takes your breath away, doesn't it? And then, in the coup de grace, the Morning Herald concludes, "In the other decisive political action of the week, Bush declared Friday, September 16, a national day of prayer and remembrance for the hurricane victims."
9/10 p.s. The Bungler's former boss says he's just average.
9/11 p.s., from the LA Times:
At first, there was a hint of swagger in the attitude of Brown, the FEMA director, toward Hurricane Katrina. The day the storm tore into the Gulf Coast, Brown told a television interviewer: "We were so ready for this…. We've planned for this kind of disaster for many years because we've always known about New Orleans and the situation. We actually did catastrophic disaster planning for this two years ago."
Posted by senioritis at September 9, 2005 07:55 PM