Feeble FEMA Head Busted
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that they dumped Brown, the incompetent FEMA guy, as the Gulf Coast efforts were entering "a new phase of the recovery operation."
I suppose that would be the phase where actual people receive actual help. Should be easier now; there are a lot fewer of them today than last week, thanks to Brown.
Let me be clear: there are great folks working at FEMA, and a few losers. Turns out the politically appointed boss was one of the losers. And, even Brown may be a nice enough guy (though he apparently padded his resume and didn't have the cojones to ask for help). But he made a bad disaster worse, so he should pay back his salary (probably low six figures), apologize and leave FEMA.
Chertoff said Brown would return to Washington to oversee the government's response to other potential disasters. Maybe Chertoff meant to say, “…to overlook the government’s response while creating more potential disasters.”
Brown said he was going back to address the lies everyone is telling about him. And to get a good stiff drink. Oh, and maybe when he is properly rested, some actual work.
Who is supervising this guy? Or, actually, these guys?
Summary: Loser #2 is fired by Loser #1.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that they dumped Brown, the incompetent FEMA guy, as the Gulf Coast efforts were entering "a new phase of the recovery operation."
I suppose that would be the phase where actual people receive actual help. Should be easier now; there are a lot fewer of them today than last week, thanks to Brown.
Let me be clear: there are great folks working at FEMA, and a few losers. Turns out the politically appointed boss was one of the losers. And, even Brown may be a nice enough guy (though he apparently padded his resume and didn't have the cojones to ask for help). But he made a bad disaster worse, so he should pay back his salary (probably low six figures), apologize and leave FEMA.
Chertoff said Brown would return to Washington to oversee the government's response to other potential disasters. Maybe Chertoff meant to say, “…to overlook the government’s response while creating more potential disasters.”
Brown said he was going back to address the lies everyone is telling about him. And to get a good stiff drink. Oh, and maybe when he is properly rested, some actual work.
Who is supervising this guy? Or, actually, these guys?
Summary: Loser #2 is fired by Loser #1.
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 11:12 AM
4 Comments:
At 9:02 PM,
Unknown said…
Ah ha Greg, you got spammed! It happens to the best of us, I guess.
That Brown guy might not be an effective FEMA leader but boy he sure was good at spin control, wasn't he?
"I suppose that would be the phase where actual people receive actual help." LOL!
At 12:56 AM,
Greg Finnegan said…
You're right, Brenda. At least it was a polite spammer. 'Course that's like saying a genteel mosquito. Don't matter if either one has manners; I still got stung!
-Greg
At 12:18 PM,
kenju said…
Geg: Sigmund, Carl and Alfred say today that no matter how bad he was as the head of FEMA, he was approved by the government after Bush appointed him, so we should complain to them. I don't know....I'm jes' sayin'.
At 5:53 PM,
Greg Finnegan said…
I wonder why Sigmund Freud, Carl Sagan and Alfred E. "What Me Worry?" Neuman are interested in Fema Brown?
I see your point, but did we blame Hitler for appointing Mengle or Hess? Did we blame Bill Clinton for dating Monica? Did we blame Princess Leia for hitchiking with Han Solo? I think not. Nixon proved that guys like Erlichmann and Haldeman can do swell on an interview, but when the chips were down, they totally failed to erase the tapes, to "lose" (Nixon's word) Dean and Woodward and Bernstein, and to get Pat sober.
So, yes, Brown could do fine on the interview and still screw up afterwards.
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