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Sep. 9th, 2005 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athelindA recent report from TIME Magazine begins:
In this time of acrimony and recriminations, however, I, for one, would like to state for the record that I believe that Mr. Allbaugh's assertion is absolutely correct.
George W. Bush simply could not have chosen a better man than Brown, a man whose few unfalsified accomplishments are riddled with incompetence and disaster. It was beyond his capabilities to do so. Brown was the best the man currently occupying the White House could manage.
That, more than anything, is the lesson we are learning from the aftermath of Katrina. That is the summation of the past five years:
He could do no better.
Quote of the Day: "To give you an idea of what he did there, he spent a year investigating whether a breeder performed liposuction on a horse's rear end." -- Judd Legum
Such experience with horses' asses does make him ideally suited to a position with this administration.
When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown's boss at the time, Joe Allbaugh, declared, "the President couldn't have chosen a better man to help...prepare and protect the nation."The article then proceeds to deconstruct Browns' qualifications.
In this time of acrimony and recriminations, however, I, for one, would like to state for the record that I believe that Mr. Allbaugh's assertion is absolutely correct.
George W. Bush simply could not have chosen a better man than Brown, a man whose few unfalsified accomplishments are riddled with incompetence and disaster. It was beyond his capabilities to do so. Brown was the best the man currently occupying the White House could manage.
That, more than anything, is the lesson we are learning from the aftermath of Katrina. That is the summation of the past five years:
He could do no better.
Quote of the Day: "To give you an idea of what he did there, he spent a year investigating whether a breeder performed liposuction on a horse's rear end." -- Judd Legum
Such experience with horses' asses does make him ideally suited to a position with this administration.
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Date: 2005-09-09 05:00 pm (UTC)THIS IS DROWNING GOVERNMENT IN THE BATHTUB.
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Date: 2005-09-09 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-09 05:22 pm (UTC)I wouldn't mind the prospect of "corporate government" quite as much if the zaibatsus actually showed any indication that they planned to govern.
But that would cut into their profits, now, wouldn't it?
This is why the whole "We should run government like a business!" idea is such patent nonsense. The function of business and the function of government are entirely different.
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Date: 2005-09-09 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-09 06:07 pm (UTC)Whatever.
Personally, if I want to see my money 'wasted', I'd rather see it go to a good dental plan for a low rung employeis or just keeping people employed, then some executive getting 20 extra bedrooms on his house.
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Date: 2005-09-09 05:22 pm (UTC)http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/nhentoff.htm
We used to have a constitution didn't we?
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Date: 2005-09-09 05:26 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar is pretty good, too.
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Date: 2005-09-09 05:48 pm (UTC)And Brown's down!
Date: 2005-09-09 06:04 pm (UTC)anyone planning to shed a tear.......
Re: And Brown's down!
Date: 2005-09-09 07:05 pm (UTC)Vice-Admiral Allen has been around since long before the current regime started Drowning Government In The Bathtub. You don't advance in the USCG unless you've got the chops, and "the chops" in this case are all about rescue coordination and disaster planning. I hope, however, that he doesn't get hamstrung from up above -- the USCG has been under the auspices of the
Ministry of Fatherland SecurityDepartment of Homeland Security since it was instated back in '01.Semper Paratus.
Re: And Brown's down!
Date: 2005-09-10 01:52 am (UTC)I guess he'll get to be commandant next. Oh, btw .. http://financialtimes.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=FT.com+%2F+In+depth+%2F+Hurricane+Katrina+-+Oil+spillages+threaten+Gulf+of+Mexico&expire=&urlID=15470560&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2Fc1c6698e-20ab-11da-81ef-00000e2511c8%2Cft_acl%3D%2Cs01%3D1.html&partnerID=1744
We'll be BUSY long after the New Orleans diaspora has settled down and things return to a near-state of normalcy.
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Date: 2005-09-11 01:10 am (UTC)You know, like everyhing else in this administration.
Brown was pleasant enough, if a bit opportunistic, Jones said, but he did not put enough time and energy into his job. "He would have been better suited to be a small city or county lawyer," he said. Jones was surprised Brown was being considered for job at FEMA but figured it wasn't impossible he could have risen high enough in local and state government to be considered for a job directing FEMA operations in Oklahoma.
The agents quickly corrected him. This was a national post in Washington, deputy director of FEMA, the arm of the federal government that prepares for and responds to disasters around the United States.
Jones looked at the agents, "You're surely kidding?"
Today, Brown is the director of FEMA.