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"Harry Hope" |
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03 Oct 2005 11:43:01 AM |
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Republicans hired a new FEMA consultant named...um...Michael Brown |
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina the Bush administration insisted
that it wasn't time to play the "blame game."
But last week Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA, appeared at a
Congressional hearing last week to give his version what happened
during the disaster - and the blame game officially commenced.
Yes, according to Brownie, he did a heck of a job - it was everyone
else who screwed things up.
"My biggest regret is not getting the governor [of Louisiana] and the
mayor of New Orleans to sit down and iron out their differences," said
he.
Fortunately several members of the committee weren't buying it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Katrina%20Brown%20Quotes
"What part of the FEMA plan," asked Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), "envisioned
that the first responders in Hancock County and much of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast would have to loot the local grocery store and
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to feed themselves, would have to
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to have a change of clothes?"
When blaming local officials didn't pan out quite as he anticipated,
Brownie turned his guns on the Department of Homeland Security, the
White House, and the media.
He said that FEMA suffered "emaciation" because of DHS budget cuts,
and claimed that he was in direct communication with the White House
for days before the goverment hit.
"I guess you want me to be the superhero that is going to step in
there and suddenly take everybody out of New Orleans," he whined.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/28/ex_fema_chief_spreads_the_blame/?page=2
Prompted by Rep. Steve Buyer (R-In.), Brown also managed to lie under
oath.
Check out this exchange:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/national/nationalspecial/27text-brown.html?pagewanted=print
BUYER: ...I was listening to my colleague, Mr. Jefferson's, questions
about when they talked about, you know, they asked for this assistance
for three days and then president responded the very next day, not the
day that it was made - the request - but the governor of Louisiana
actually excluded New Orleans from the president's federal emergency
assistance declaration?
BROWN: Again, Congressman, we looked at the request. The governors
make the request by...
BUYER: Let me ask this. Since you went through the exercise in Pam,
was that not shocking to you that the governor would excluded New
Orleans from the declaration?
BROWN: Yes.
BUYER: When that request came in excluding these three parishes, did
you question it?
BROWN: We questioned it. But I made the decision that we were going to
go ahead and move assets in regardless because we have the ability to
add those parishes...
Just one problem:
Gov. Blanco didn't exclude Orleans Parish from the emergency
assistance declaration.
The White House, however, excluded it from their response.
In Blanco's original August 27 request, she wrote:
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=976
Dear Mr. President:
Under the provisions of Section 501 (a) of the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121-5206
(Stafford Act), and implemented by 44 CFR § 206.35, I request that you
declare an emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane
Katrina for the time period beginning August 26, 2005, and continuing.
THE AFFECTED AREAS ARE ALL THE SOUTHEASTERN PARISHES INCLUDING THE NEW
ORLEANS METROPOLITAN AREA and the mid state Interstate I-49 corridor
and northern parishes along the I-20 corridor that are accepting the
thousands of citizens evacuating from the areas expecting to be
flooded as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
Emphasis mine.
And here's the White House's response:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html
The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security,
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster
relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and
suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to
provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures,
authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect
property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the
threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Allen, Avoyelles,
Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula,
Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana,
Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston,
Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides,
Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union,
Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.
Strange that they would leave out Orleans Parish, don't you think?
Still, there's some good news - FEMA has hired a special consultant to
investigate what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/27/brown.fema/
A special consultant who happens to go by the name of... Michael
Brown.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans hired a new FEMA consultant named...um...Michael Brown |
03 Oct 2005 04:46:57 PM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:isn2k1lsf01dd4lhlqme94d18lc2ha04bt@4ax.com...
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina the Bush administration insisted
that it wasn't time to play the "blame game."
But last week Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA, appeared at a
Congressional hearing last week to give his version what happened
during the disaster - and the blame game officially commenced.
Yes, according to Brownie, he did a heck of a job - it was everyone
else who screwed things up.
"My biggest regret is not getting the governor [of Louisiana] and the
mayor of New Orleans to sit down and iron out their differences," said
he.
Fortunately several members of the committee weren't buying it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Katrina%20Brown%20Quotes
"What part of the FEMA plan," asked Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), "envisioned
that the first responders in Hancock County and much of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast would have to loot the local grocery store and
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to feed themselves, would have to
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to have a change of clothes?"
I hope he told that dumb ***** Senator that FEMA is not a first responder.
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| User: "Server 13" |
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03 Oct 2005 04:57:00 PM |
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Billy wrote:
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:isn2k1lsf01dd4lhlqme94d18lc2ha04bt@4ax.com...
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina the Bush administration insisted
that it wasn't time to play the "blame game."
But last week Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA, appeared at a
Congressional hearing last week to give his version what happened
during the disaster - and the blame game officially commenced.
Yes, according to Brownie, he did a heck of a job - it was everyone
else who screwed things up.
"My biggest regret is not getting the governor [of Louisiana] and the
mayor of New Orleans to sit down and iron out their differences," said
he.
Fortunately several members of the committee weren't buying it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Katrina%20Brown%20Quotes
"What part of the FEMA plan," asked Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), "envisioned
that the first responders in Hancock County and much of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast would have to loot the local grocery store and
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to feed themselves, would have to
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to have a change of clothes?"
I hope he told that dumb ***** Senator that FEMA is not a first responder.
Sorry, FEMA took over first response responsibility for natural disasters
awhile back. That's why they were able to keep the usual first responders from
entering the area.
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans hired a new FEMA consultant named...um...Michael Brown |
03 Oct 2005 05:32:31 PM |
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"Server 13" <c-bee1@uiuc.edu> wrote in message
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Billy wrote:
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:isn2k1lsf01dd4lhlqme94d18lc2ha04bt@4ax.com...
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina the Bush administration insisted
that it wasn't time to play the "blame game."
But last week Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA, appeared at a
Congressional hearing last week to give his version what happened
during the disaster - and the blame game officially commenced.
Yes, according to Brownie, he did a heck of a job - it was everyone
else who screwed things up.
"My biggest regret is not getting the governor [of Louisiana] and the
mayor of New Orleans to sit down and iron out their differences," said
he.
Fortunately several members of the committee weren't buying it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Katrina%20Brown%20Quotes
"What part of the FEMA plan," asked Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), "envisioned
that the first responders in Hancock County and much of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast would have to loot the local grocery store and
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to feed themselves, would have to
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to have a change of clothes?"
I hope he told that dumb ***** Senator that FEMA is not a first responder.
Sorry, FEMA took over first response responsibility for natural
disasters awhile back. That's why they were able to keep the usual first
responders from entering the area.
Sorry you are wrong and must not watch the news.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05249/566101.stm
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| User: "z" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans hired a new FEMA consultant named...um...Michael Brown |
04 Oct 2005 11:17:49 PM |
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Billy wrote:
"Server 13" <c-bee1@uiuc.edu> wrote in message
news:dhs797$b2t$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
Billy wrote:
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:isn2k1lsf01dd4lhlqme94d18lc2ha04bt@4ax.com...
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina the Bush administration insisted
that it wasn't time to play the "blame game."
But last week Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA, appeared at a
Congressional hearing last week to give his version what happened
during the disaster - and the blame game officially commenced.
Yes, according to Brownie, he did a heck of a job - it was everyone
else who screwed things up.
"My biggest regret is not getting the governor [of Louisiana] and the
mayor of New Orleans to sit down and iron out their differences," said
he.
Fortunately several members of the committee weren't buying it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Katrina%20Brown%20Quotes
"What part of the FEMA plan," asked Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), "envisioned
that the first responders in Hancock County and much of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast would have to loot the local grocery store and
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to feed themselves, would have to
loot the local Wal-Mart in order to have a change of clothes?"
I hope he told that dumb ***** Senator that FEMA is not a first responder.
Sorry, FEMA took over first response responsibility for natural
disasters awhile back. That's why they were able to keep the usual first
responders from entering the area.
Sorry you are wrong and must not watch the news.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05249/566101.stm
First responder? Well, they're not supposed to be last responders, are
they? Not to know that there are people in the Convention Center until
an interviewer on TV happens to mention it? To assume the levees were
not breached because "I saw the headlines 'New Orleans Dodged the
Bullet'" (Chertoff, explaining why he ignored the Weather Service flash
flood warnings reporting levee breaches along the Industrial Canal at
Tenessee Street and predicting 8 feet of water.) What were they waiting
for, a memo entitled "Flooding Determined to Strike within New
Orleans"? Whether or not the mayor did or didn't or could have or
should have coordinated things from the storm cellar in the middle of
the hurricane doesn't matter, because these FEMA bozos didn't have
their ***** together days afterwards. It's hardly like they were waiting
there eagerly to jump into action, if only they were called.
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| User: "z" |
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03 Oct 2005 11:57:43 AM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina the Bush administration insisted
that it wasn't time to play the "blame game."
Uniquely qualified, you gotta say that. Really uniquely.
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