This just in:
"It was everybody's fault but mine" -- Brownie
FROM:
Former FEMA Head Blames Others for Hurricane Response Problems (click) Former FEMA Director Michael Brown today blamed much of what went wrong with the government's response to Hurricane Katrina on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, telling a House committee that the key elected officials were "dysfunctional" as the hurricane bore down on New Orleans.
In stark contrast to his performance.
AND:
FROM:
Brown Shifts Blame for Katrina Response (click) Brown also said that in the days before the storm, he expressed his concerns that ``this is going to be a bad one'' in phone conversations and e-mails with President Bush, White House chief of staff Andy Card and deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin.
And he blamed the Department of Homeland Security - the parent agency for the Federal Emergency Management Agency - for not acquiring better equipment ahead of the storm.
Let's see that's everyone below and everyone above ... think anyone noticed?
"I'm happy you left," said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. "That kind of look in the lights like a deer tells me you weren't capable of doing that job."
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., told Brown: "The disconnect was, people thought there was some federal expertise out there. There wasn't. Not from you."
So, somebody tell me again ... why was this guy hired as a consultant to look into the mistakes in handling these siturations?
Is their thinking really just so incompetent that they don't see it?
btw: Gene Taylor, good man, also lives in Pascagoula (I did shake
his hand when I lived there), but we didn't hear about his house ... perhaps because he lives in a more protected area?
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