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04 Sep 2005 12:22:48 PM |
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FEMA Was Gutted By Bush Administration |
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509030220sep03,1,5525666.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
The person running FEMA has no training in
handling emergency situations. He formerly
worked for the International Arabian Horse
Association and is obviously a Bush flunky. Add
to this the fact that FEMA no longer has the
authority to order supplies in advance of expected
emergencies and isn't allowed to send needed
people directly to where they are most needed,
and you can see why the delays lasted so long.
This is inexcuseable. FEMA was an efficient, well-
run agency until Bush gutted it.
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| User: "Dale" |
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| Title: Re: FEMA Was Gutted By Bush Administration |
04 Sep 2005 04:31:46 PM |
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"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:hOudnVJef_P6sIbeRVn-pw@comcast.com...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509030220sep03,1,5525666.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
The person running FEMA has no training in
handling emergency situations. He formerly
worked for the International Arabian Horse
Association and is obviously a Bush flunky. Add
to this the fact that FEMA no longer has the
authority to order supplies in advance of expected
emergencies and isn't allowed to send needed
people directly to where they are most needed,
and you can see why the delays lasted so long.
This is inexcuseable. FEMA was an efficient, well-
run agency until Bush gutted it.
It seems the aim of modern day Republicans is to gut and hamstring
government agencies at all levels so that the people will see the ultimate
futility of community effort. How they expect to get power after they've
destroyed the government, I'm not sure. I expect they've allowed themselves
to be hoodwinked by the oligarchists.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: FEMA Was Gutted By Bush Administration |
05 Sep 2005 02:32:18 AM |
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In article <hOudnVJef_P6sIbeRVn-pw@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509030220sep03,1,5525666.s
tory?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
The person running FEMA has no training in
handling emergency situations. He formerly
worked for the International Arabian Horse
Association and is obviously a Bush flunky. Add
to this the fact that FEMA no longer has the
authority to order supplies in advance of expected
emergencies and isn't allowed to send needed
people directly to where they are most needed,
and you can see why the delays lasted so long.
This is inexcuseable. FEMA was an efficient, well-
run agency until Bush gutted it.
He was fired from his job with the IAHA because he couldn't organize a
horse show properly. Great qualifications for head of an important
government agency like FEMA.
See also:
http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=100857
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: FEMA Was Gutted By Bush Administration |
08 Sep 2005 09:26:41 PM |
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On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:32:18 -0700, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:
In article <hOudnVJef_P6sIbeRVn-pw@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509030220sep03,1,5525666.s
tory?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
The person running FEMA has no training in
handling emergency situations. He formerly
worked for the International Arabian Horse
Association and is obviously a Bush flunky. Add
to this the fact that FEMA no longer has the
authority to order supplies in advance of expected
emergencies and isn't allowed to send needed
people directly to where they are most needed,
and you can see why the delays lasted so long.
This is inexcuseable. FEMA was an efficient, well-
run agency until Bush gutted it.
He was fired from his job with the IAHA because he couldn't organize a
horse show properly. Great qualifications for head of an important
government agency like FEMA.
See also:
http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=100857
Brown pushed from last job: Horse group: FEMA chief had to be `asked
to resign'
By Brett Arends
Saturday, September 3, 2005 - Updated: 02:01 PM EST
The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was
fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.
And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a
deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant
experience that would have qualified him for the position.
The Oklahoman got the job through an old college friend who at
the time was heading up FEMA.
The agency, run by Brown since 2003, is now at the center of a
growing fury over the handling of the New Orleans disaster.
``I look at FEMA and I shake my head,'' said a furious Gov. Mitt
Romney yesterday, calling the response ``an embarrassment.''
President Bush, after touring the Big Easy, said he was ``not
satisfied'' with the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina's
devastation.
And U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch predicted there would be hearings on
Capitol Hill over the mishandled operation.
Brown - formerly an estates and family lawyer - this week has has
made several shocking public admissions, including interviews where he
suggested FEMA was unaware of the misery and desperation of refugees
stranded at the New Orleans convention center.
Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, Brown spent 11
years as the commissioner of judges and stewards for the International
Arabian Horse Association, a breeders' and horse-show organization
based in Colorado.
``We do disciplinary actions, certification of (show trial)
judges. We hold classes to train people to become judges and stewards.
And we keep records,'' explained a spokeswoman for the IAHA
commissioner's office. ``This was his full-time job . . . for 11
years,'' she added.
Brown was forced out of the position after a spate of lawsuits
over alleged supervision failures.
``He was asked to resign,'' Bill Pennington, president of the
IAHA at the time, confirmed last night.
Soon after, Brown was invited to join the administration by his
old Oklahoma college roommate Joseph Allbaugh, the previous head of
FEMA until he quit in 2003 to work for the president's re-election
campaign.
The White House last night defended Brown's appointment. A spokesman
noted Brown served as FEMA deputy director and general counsel before
taking the top job, and that he has now overseen the response to
``more than 164 declared disasters and emergencies,'' including last
year's record-setting hurricane season.
/end
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "maf1029 ©2001-2008" |
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| Title: Re: FEMA Was Gutted By Bush Administration |
08 Sep 2005 10:26:24 PM |
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On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:26:41 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
``I look at FEMA and I shake my head,'' said a furious Gov. Mitt
Romney yesterday, calling the response ``an embarrassment.''
Ok, if Mitt-mitt-full-of-***** is saying that Brown fucked up, it
really is worse than we thought.
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| User: "Carl Kaufmann" |
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| Title: Re: FEMA Was Gutted By Bush Administration |
05 Sep 2005 10:16:03 AM |
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Michelle Malkin wrote:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509030220sep03,1,5525666.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
The person running FEMA has no training in
handling emergency situations. He formerly
worked for the International Arabian Horse
Association and is obviously a Bush flunky. Add
to this the fact that FEMA no longer has the
authority to order supplies in advance of expected
emergencies and isn't allowed to send needed
people directly to where they are most needed,
and you can see why the delays lasted so long.
This is inexcuseable. FEMA was an efficient, well-
run agency until Bush gutted it.
Not to mention the mass flight of experienced people when it became
part of DHS. I have a friend who was a GS-13 whose entire office
pretty much transfered to other agencies.
Carl
a.a. 1966
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: FEMA Was Gutted By Bush Administration |
08 Sep 2005 09:23:50 PM |
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On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:22:48 -0400, "Michelle Malkin"
<hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509030220sep03,1,5525666.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
The person running FEMA has no training in
handling emergency situations. He formerly
worked for the International Arabian Horse
Association and is obviously a Bush flunky. Add
to this the fact that FEMA no longer has the
authority to order supplies in advance of expected
emergencies and isn't allowed to send needed
people directly to where they are most needed,
and you can see why the delays lasted so long.
This is inexcuseable. FEMA was an efficient, well-
run agency until Bush gutted it.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/
September 08, 2005
Looking closer at Brown's background, it's worse than we thought
Posted 3:55 pm
Yes, FEMA's Mike Brown is under fire and yes, it's tempting to stop
piling on, but this isn't just some random person filling a low-level
job on the third floor of the OEOB. As recent events have shown all
too well, the nation needs and depends on a skilled and capable FEMA
chief — and the president needs to choose one — and this has clearly
not happened.
University of Colorado law prof Paul Campos fleshes out the details of
what he calls Brown's "padded resume" in a stunning new article for
The New Republic. We all knew Brown's background was limited, but in
this case, it's worse than we thought.
For example, Brown's official bio explains that he practiced law for
20 years prior to his 2001 appointment as FEMA. But that's not the
case at all.
For one thing, Brown's legal career began by studying at a
semi-accredited law school no one's ever heard of. In 1981, he joined
a local firm, but didn't last and he was gone 18 months later. He
tired to put together a private practice, but that too failed. By
1987, Brown had "more or less abandoned his nascent legal career."
He moved to Colorado, but his legal career consisted primarily of
grading answers to bar exam questions. There's no evidence of him
practicing law in any other capacity.
Then came the horse gig.
Brown's job was to make sure that horse show judges followed the
rules, and his enthusiasm for their strict enforcement won him the
nickname of "the czar," as well as the enmity of contestants, some of
whom sued the Association, as well as Brown himself. According to a
September 6 Denver Post article, Brown became embroiled in controversy
when allegations were made that, to help pay his legal fees, Brown
solicited a nearly $50,000 contribution from an IAHA member whose
conduct he was supposed to regulate.
Failed lawyer, failed congressional candidate, failed horse-rule
enforcer. Then Bush becomes president and, all of a sudden, Brown is
the general counsel for a major federal agency. Two years later, he's
the director.
Brown will probably lose his job soon, but the truth is, serious
questions have to be answered about how this man was chosen in the
first place. Indeed, who is more deserving of blame — Brown, for
taking a critically important job for which he was not qualified, or
Bush, for hiring him?
Campos describes hiring Brown to run FEMA as an "act of gross
recklessness." After what we've seen on the Gulf Coast, I'd say it's
borderline criminal.
/end
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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