Michael Brown

mikeschmike · #1 09-12-2005, 02:16 PM

The FEMA ****tard Michael Brown has resigned, according to CNN. And they stupidity can't get you anywhere...

It's a celebration bitch!

dissention · #2 09-12-2005, 02:26 PM

More proof that Operation Save Face is in effect. Woohoo.

mikeschmike · #3 09-12-2005, 02:32 PM

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More proof that Operation Save Face is in effect. Woohoo.

I just got done reading the article on CNN.com. Removed from his position, but not fired. I'm sure that means he'll get some out of the way cushy job but I'm just glad he's not out there making more idiotic decisions. He can leave that to the seasoned pros.

amber · #4 09-12-2005, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mikeschmike

I just got done reading the article on CNN.com. Removed from his position, but not fired. I'm sure that means he'll get some out of the way cushy job but I'm just glad he's not out there making more idiotic decisions. He can leave that to the seasoned pros.

The only job I think he might be able to handle, would be something like, say....setting up the croquet wickets when the whitehouse entertains on the lawns? Something like that....

Nixxxed · #5 09-12-2005, 08:31 PM

Have ya'll heard about Drownie's replacement?

(At least he has experience, I guess...)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8514671/#050912a

New FEMA boss is 'Duct Tape Man' (Keith Olbermann)

SECAUCUS — If Michael Brown’s resignation this afternoon as the head of FEMA was supposed to end the political controversy over the administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, it probably won't.

In another gesture symbolizing the continued confusion of the federal response, the man President Bush immediately named to succeed “Brownie,” proves to have been the same FEMA official who, two-and-a-half years ago, suggested that Americans stock up on duct tape to protect against a biological or chemical terrorist attack.

David Paulison, then the government's Fire Administrator, joined with the then-head of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, on February 10th, 2003, to say that duct tape and plastic sheeting should be part of any home's "survival kit" in preparation for a terrorist attack. That set off a run on duct tape at stores, and widespread criticism of the administration. It might have been the first time after 9/11 that a large number of Americans wondered if the government really knew what it was talking about when it came to disaster preparedness.

And the man behind that politically explosive proposal, has just been named to succeed the man who had been the face of the politically explosive response to Hurricane Katrina.

Paulison brings an extensive resume to the post. He ran fire operations for Miami-Dade County in Florida, and was past president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. But in light of the response to this hurricane, another comment he made at the time of the Duct Tape announcements rings especially loudly. Paulison said in February, 2003, that in the first 48 to 72 hours of an emergency, many Americans would likely have to look after themselves.

As to the exit of Mr. Brown, who knows how many of the millions of Americans directly or indirectly touched by Hurricane Katrina probably had the identical thought when he quit his post this afternoon: Namely, that he was no doubt already updating his padded resume.

And his departure was not even unattended by confusion. In Brown’s statement, he wrote, “As I told the President, it is important that I leave now.” But when first asked about it during his tour of Mississippi, Mr. Bush said he had no details, hadn’t talked to Brown or Homeland Security chief Chertoff, and, “maybe you know something I don’t know.” Later, press secretary Scott McClellan said that the President had already known about the resignation — he just hadn't known that it had been made public.

And he was already just minutes away from naming Brown’s successor: Duct Tape Man.

E-mail: KOlbermann@msnbc.com

dissention · #6 09-12-2005, 08:33 PM

I saw that on 360, he kept making a point of saying he was "the one who told Americans to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape."

If that's the best they can do, have mercy.

BombaySapphire3 · #7 09-12-2005, 10:29 PM

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I saw that on 360, he kept making a point of saying he was "the one who told Americans to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape."

If that's the best they can do, have mercy.

Like someone said Arabian horses everywhere are now living in fear that he lost his FEMA job and is coming back to manage them.

BTFLCHLD · #8 09-12-2005, 11:00 PM

interesting...in earlier post i had typed
id rather listen to brown then bush....
even at reduced quals he still handled
the media situation better than the smug
smirk ever did/could...will
i guess its a matter of preference
on who spoon feeds the bs

BombaySapphire3 · #9 09-12-2005, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

interesting...in earlier post i had typed
id rather listen to brown then bush....
even at reduced quals he still handled
the media situation better than the smug
smirk ever did/could...will
i guess its a matter of preference
on who spoon feeds the bs

I'd rather listen to a talking rectum than to Bush .