"The President couldn't have chosen a better man": Mike Brown

[mysteriew]

Director Michael Brown sent a candid e-mail to family and friends this week as he was becoming the center of criticism of the handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/katrina_...6BkmCOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

 

[Pepper]

I just heard that NASA is proposing a new flight to Mars, and is ambitiously proposing to put a man on Mars on this trip.
Brown is being overwhelmingly nominated as the man for the job.

I hope he takes Blanco and Nagin to keep him company on that long journey!

 

[tybee204]

According to CNN

 

[Marstan]

According to Fox News.

 

[DEPUTYDAWG]

Yeah!

 

[Jeana (DP)]

:woohoo: :woohoo: :clap: :clap: :clap: :woohoo: :woohoo:

 

[ShowerSinger]

I hope he was given the old ultimatum----
Resign, or be fired.
(Would have liked to have seen him fired, though.)

 

[Pepper]

I hope he was given the old ultimatum----
Resign, or be fired.
(Would have liked to have seen him fired, though.)

You can bet on it!

 

[kato]

If there was ever a poster boy for ineptitude he was it.

 

[rollerbladr123]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050912/ap_on_go_ot/katrina_brownEmbattled FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns

Quote : Embattled FEMA director Mike Brown said Monday he has resigned "in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president," three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. "The focus has got to be on FEMA, what the people are trying to do down there," Brown told The Associated Press.His decision was not a surprise. Brown was abruptly recalled to Washington on Friday, a clear vote of no confidence from his superiors at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security. Brown had been roundly criticized for FEMA's bearish response to the hurricane, which has caused political problem for Bush and fellow Republicans.

more at link...

 

[Pepper]

Between the Times allegation of resume embellishment, and the Paula Zahn interview, the guy was toast.

 

[Buzz Mills]

Someone had to be the scapegoat for this major foul-up. FEMA is now under the Dept. Of Homeland Security. When was Mike Brown appointed head of FEMA and who was resposnsible for appointing him??

 

[Ntegrity]

I'm sure FEMA didn't do things perfectly, but mostly I think he's becoming a scapegoat for a failure on many levels. I'm not sure anyone could've handled a disaster of this magnitude -- not even Rudy.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

I'm sure FEMA didn't do things perfectly, but mostly I think he's becoming a scapegoat for a failure on many levels. I'm not sure anyone could've handled a disaster of this magnitude -- not even Rudy.

Here's the guy who can (and IS) doing it!!!:



NEW ORLEANS – To troops, he's the "Ragin' Cajun," an affable but demanding general barking orders to resuscitate a drowning city. To his country, he's an icon of leadership in a land hungry for a leader after a hurricane exposed the nation's vulnerability to disasters.

With a can-do attitude and a cigar in hand, Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore arrived after Hurricane Katrina and directed troops to point weapons down in respect for a stunned and stranded population lacking food, electricity and safety.

Each morning, Gen. Honore (pronounced AHN'-ur-ay) boards a Blackhawk helicopter at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, 100 miles north of New Orleans, for a humanitarian mission as head of the military's Joint Task Force Katrina.

Gen. Honore was born at home 57 years ago during a hurricane, his mother and an uncle always told him. He grew up poor in Lakeland, La., northwest of Baton Rouge, with 11 siblings, once winning a 4-H contest with the family's lone dairy cow, Weasel.

His daughter and friends live in New Orleans. As a child, he spent two weeks at Charity Hospital, where Katrina's floodwaters trapped doctors and patients, after he was hit in the head with a baseball bat.

Stepping into a crisis that has drawn criticism of leaders at every level of government, Gen. Honore was praised for his compassionate approach to residents and his colorful bursts of instructions to troops, delivered in a Louisiana drawl with spits of profanity for emphasis.

more at:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...thonore_12tex.ART.State.Edition2.8a33ab2.html

 

[Mabel]

I'm sure FEMA didn't do things perfectly, but mostly I think he's becoming a scapegoat for a failure on many levels. I'm not sure anyone could've handled a disaster of this magnitude -- not even Rudy.

But for him to deny even having any knowledge of issues that the rest of the world had been watching live on every news channel for days goes beyond an inability to handle the disaster.

 

[Ntegrity]

But for him to deny even having any knowledge of issues that the rest of the world had been watching live on every news channel for days goes beyond an inability to handle the disaster.

I'm pretty sure he was too busy to watch TV during that time. Don't you think? Who was responsible for updating him on the situation?

 

[Ntegrity]

Here's the guy who can (and IS) doing it!!!:

And he seems to be doing a good job, but he's in command of military troops. What was Brown supposed to do? I'm serious here. Not being an apologist for him, just curious.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

And he seems to be doing a good job, but he's in command of military troops. What was Brown supposed to do? I'm serious here. Not being an apologist for him, just curious.

Dude shouldn't have ever accepted a job he was not qualified to do. By doing so, he put lifes in jeapordy. Just my :twocents: .

Military experience is exactly what's needed to get that many people moved, fed, etc. in a short amount of time.

 

[kgeaux]

"You can't win the first quarter in a disaster. It's impossible to do it. You got to do the best you can. But you better win the next quarter, take care of the evacuees," he says. "If the first quarter taught us anything, your plan is a plan, but it needs to be executed."

He really tells it like it is. Gotta like that guy!

 

[less0305]

I'm sure FEMA didn't do things perfectly, but mostly I think he's becoming a scapegoat for a failure on many levels. I'm not sure anyone could've handled a disaster of this magnitude -- not even Rudy.

I said that also. The huge magnitude of this disaster would have engulfed anybody - even Rudy, I believe. And I still don't believe there are enough FEMA employees out there to handle the mass destruction over three states - and now having to have employees set up shop in every state to help those that have been evacuated out. Nothing this country has ever seen before.