Brownie is back.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that Michael Brown,
who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has been rehired
by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it's response
following Hurricane Katrina. (Link)




mrC

[Dexter]

Just heard it myself. Unless they have hired him to advise how NOT to run FEMA its an insult to every single person who died or suffered as a result of his incompetence.

[Stingray]

Brownie gets to evaluate how crappy a job he did with Katrina. Only in America.

-S

[ChadTower]

Sometimes, when a person is let go, they are brought back on a temporary contract basis to assist in the transition.  Maybe this guy has something in his head that they need to make the transition.

I doubt it, though.

[Stingray]

Maybe this guy has something in his head that they need to make the transition.

I can't imagine why they would need six pounds of manure.

-S

[ChadTower]

Sometimes it is as simple as "damn that dude had all the phone numbers in his car".

[Stingray]

He probably knows which places have the best coffee.

-S

[ChadTower]

He certainly knows who gives the best authorization to hire.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Maybe this guy has something in his head that they need to make the transition.

I bet he has something in his head that they certainly don't want public. I don't think it's a coincidence that he gets "rehired" right before he is supposed to testify (today) in front of the sham committee "investigating" Katrina.

Maybe Brownie did a heckuva' job in the Florida 2004 elections.

"Now that President Bush has won Florida in his 2004 re-election bid, he may want to draft a letter of appreciation to Michael Brown, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Seldom has any federal agency had the opportunity to so directly and uniquely alter the course of a presidential election, and seldom has any agency delivered for a president as FEMA did in Florida this fall." (LINK)

...

"Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports." (LINK)

This decision to keep him on not only smacks of the worst cronyism in U.S. history, it smells of a buyout. Brownie was already shopping his resume' around Washington, less than two weeks after Katrina, but he was considered too "radioactive" to hire, so this administration decides to keep paying him his $150k salary with our tax dollars.


mrC

[ChadTower]

Bad link.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Fixed. (Changed link and quote to match)

[Havok]

Bad link.

Not to mention, bad idea...

[Stingray]

Bad administration.

-S

[mrhowell]

Does the leadership in Louisiana have any blame here?  One thing for sure, Sister Mary, Gov. Blanco, and the mayor had a lot of press conferences during the storm. 

[ChadTower]

Most of those conferences were to discuss the $500k/day in lost revenue due to destroyed casinos.

[mrhowell]

That's one way to look at it.  Another is that they are  typical Liberals and there were a bunch of tv cameras and, well you know the rest.  It will all be better when Sharpton and Jackson get here.  They make everything better.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Another is that they are  typical Liberals and there were a bunch of tv cameras and, well you know the rest.

Typical Liberal?

Does the leadership in Louisiana have any blame here?

Quite possibly. But how does that have anything to do with giving this incompetent moron Brown another job with FEMA? Even as a highly-paid "consultant"?


mrC

[ChadTower]

What a bastard.  Look what he did to that turkey.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

What a bastard.  Look what he did to that turkey.

You don't know the Turkey story? He flew to Iraq for his Thanksgiving surprise visit, walked around with this big ole' Turkey....and it was never served to the troops, since it was just a prop and the entire visit...a photo-op. Typical Liberal.


mrC

[Harry Potter]

What a bastard.  Look what he did to that turkey.

Which turkey are you reffering to?

[ChadTower]

Hey, bosss7 got it!  Nice one.

[ChadTower]

CNN.com:

Former FEMA chief Michael Brown today blamed Louisiana's leaders for dragging their heels last month as Hurricane Katrina approached the Gulf Coast. Brown told a congressional panel he couldn't make state or local officials do anything. "I guess you want me to be the superhero that is going to step in there and suddenly take everybody out of New Orleans."

Okay, the guy is a retard.  Now he's going to get sarcastic to the press?  Sounds like someone is feeling untouchable.

The evacuation was not his failure.  The response was his failure.

[Stingray]

Heard a bit of the interview a few months ago. He said the only thing he did wrong was not being able to get the mayor of NO and the gov. of LA to get along. The congressmen questioning him were shredding him. I almost felt sorry for him. It was like Mr. Magoo vs. Godzilla.

-S

[ChadTower]

In the end, though, nothing will change.

[Stingray]

I think that's actually the very last line of the US constitution.

-S

[ChadTower]

It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

[Stingray]

It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. In the end, though, nothing will change.

-S

[ChadTower]

Well one thing changed.  Carton lost his head.