FEMA Chief REMOVED!!

edub69 · Sep 9, 2005

AP - 19 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role in managing the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and is returning to Washington. Brown, who has been under fire for the federal government's slow response to the storm that devastated much of the Gulf Coast region, will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, who was overseeing New Orleans relief and rescue efforts.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms

RobFunk · Sep 9, 2005

arty:

It's on CNN with the infamous "Brownie you're doing a heck of a job quote" being played. .lmao good stuff

JudgeWapner · Sep 9, 2005

Needed to be done.

Jointpleasure · Sep 9, 2005

Dancing on the graves. SAD

JudgeWapner · Sep 9, 2005

Not at all, had to be done, period.

Jointpleasure · Sep 9, 2005

Come on judge. I see the mustache on your avatar just a wee bit more turned upward on the left.

JudgeWapner · Sep 9, 2005

JP, I know, it's hard to believe, but I take no pleasure from the whole scenerio. Would have prefered things to have been handled well. I don't look at this as a political situation, just one of humanity.

Jointpleasure · Sep 9, 2005

Judge Wapner said:
JP, I know, it's hard to believe, but I take no pleasure from the whole scenerio. Would have prefered things to have been handled well. I don't look at this as a political situation, just one of humanity.

You cover well judge, guess that's why they call you the judge.

JudgeWapner · Sep 9, 2005

Actually JP, I am pissed of the whole thing has been reduced to politics. The majority of the blame in that lies with the Dems.

D2bets · Sep 9, 2005

So he's being left in place to f*** up the response to the next disaster? :icon_conf

SamOdom · Sep 9, 2005

When will Gov Blanco resign? She was the one who stopped the food and water going to dome.

bulldog77 · Sep 9, 2005

This is a first! Bush actually fired one of his long line of bumbling jackasses!

That's quite a feat to be fired from the most corrupt and incompetent administration in American History. Way to go, Brownie!

SamOdom · Sep 9, 2005

bulldog77 said:
Bush actually fired one of his long line of bumbling jackasses!

You need to read better. Brown may need to be fired by he is not fired.

docmercer · Sep 9, 2005

Earlier, Brown confirmed the switch. Asked if he was being made a scapegoat for a federal relief effort that has drawn widespread and sharp criticism, Brown told The Associated Press after a long pause: "By the press, yes. By the president, no."

Interesting take on it by Brown.

SamOdom · Sep 9, 2005

Brown/FEMA was blamed for not getting food & water to the dome but we now know it was Blanco who ordered her state Homeland Security director to do so. As bad as it may seem she blocked the food and water it may have been the right decision.

RobFunk · Sep 9, 2005

Brown should have been allowed to stay at his position, but only if FEMA is changed to Failure to Effectively Manage Anything

bulldog77 · Sep 9, 2005

Knowing Bush, Brownie gets a medal next or promotion. (See Tenet, Rice, Rumsfeld et al).

SamOdom · Sep 9, 2005

Presenting the Medal of Freedom to Robert S. McNamara

Thomas Jefferson said: "When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."

The man we honor here today has lived that philosophy for more than 7 long years.

The General Services Administration does not list him among our official assets, but he is one of America's most valuable public properties.

Bob McNamara may not have accomplished the impossible. But he has achieved the unlikely: managing and directing the huge complexity that is the Defense Establishment of the United States of America.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The White House
February 28, 1968

docmercer--banned · Sep 9, 2005

First off ...

Judge ... you are a class act

2ndly ... THE TEAM lost in NO and good for GWB to fire this snake ... these are AMERICANS and not refugees and I admire Bush for shit canning this scumbag

Again ... I hate Bush but we have AMERICANS that are struggling with a lfe / death scenario and good for him if this story is true

D2bets · Sep 9, 2005

doc mercer said:
First off ...

Judge ... you are a class act

2ndly ... THE TEAM lost in NO and good for GWB to fire this snake ... these are AMERICANS and not refugees and I admire Bush for shit canning this scumbag

Again ... I hate Bush but we have AMERICANS that are struggling with a lfe / death scenario and good for him if this story is true

doc, like Sam said...re-read the story. He was not canned at all. He is still FEMA Director. He is just not going to remain on the ground in NOLA to handle day-to-day stuff from here on out. The concept is that there still needs to be someone at the head of FEMA to respond to other crises. I gotta think this would be the case whether or not he bungled the effort. So in essence, this isn't a demotion, punishment or firing at all, just the natural flow of work. Delegation, if you will. But he has NOT been fired or demoted, not yet anyway.