FEMA director Brown resigns
FEMA director Brown resigns
#0FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:18pm
"Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown, under fire over his qualifications and what critics call a bungled response to Hurricane Katrina, resigned Monday, senior administration sources told CNN."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/12/katrina.impact/index.html
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#1re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:22pmI still wish he would have been FIRED, in a very public way. This should have been used as an example of accountability.
robbiej
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#2re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:23pmHow about the accountability of the people who gave him the job for which he was so woefully underqualified.
TheBoyfromChi
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#3re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:41pmExactly, he should have never been given the job in the first place. Bush dodged another one here.
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WOSQ
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#5re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:59pm
It has come out that Brown padded his resume. Not coy little euphemisms, but that he did not hold positions that he said he did.
What about the other Bush administration political appointees?
Time to start digging. And digging deep.
#6re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:00pmI don't think it was Bush himself, but rather someone inthe administration who told Brown "OK you are going to sit down and write a resignation letter NOW!"
iflitifloat
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#7re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:00pmI don't think Bush dodged anything here. They will try to villainize Brown in a passive-aggressive way and lay the blame for everything on his doorstep, but when push comes to shove, the buck still stops at the top. And unfortunately for Bush, he was very visibly still on vacation while the **** was hitting the fan on the Gulf Coast. Additionally, his initial public displays of support for "Brownie" demonstrated to the world just how clueless he was about the scope of the disaster taking place just a couple of states away from home. It's as if the magnitude was too big for him to grasp, so he went into shut down. It's especially telling when you remember how quickly he was able to respond to a faux crisis like Terry Schiavo's impending demise.
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#8re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:03pm
He was fired. Does anyone doubt that? And so what, Bush should have publicly fired him. Bush is, among many other things, a coward.
He "resigns" and the idiot Bush is on record saying The White House did not request his resignation.
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." 
Updated On: 9/12/05 at 04:03 PM
Plum
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#9re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:04pmThis is where Bush's clueless image helps him yet again. He always projected the image of a good ol' boy who let his people take care of the details. So now he's been "victimized" by Brownie and the local politicians. Now Brown's resigned under pressure. The administration will do their best to make sure the rest of the **** falls away from Washington.
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#10re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:04pm
"How about the accountability of the people who gave him the job for which he was so woefully underqualified."
Oh, I'm all for that reckoning, as well - but that falls under 'impeachment', I believe 
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#11re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:06pmAny lawyers here? Can an argument be made against Bush for negligent homicide?
robbiej
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#12re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:06pm
Aw come on, D!
We're talking terrible mismanagement that resulted in many deaths...not a blowjob!
Where are your priorities?
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#13re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:10pm
As for the people who "gave" him the job, bear in mind that this position required Congressional approval.
There is plenty, and I mean plenty of partisan and bi-partisan blame to go around here. Brown is the most visible and possibly the most bumbling, and he was pushed onto his sword.
Katrinagate.
MargoChanning
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#14re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:11pmSo is Bush going to replace Brown with Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen who's running the Katrina relier efforts now (or someone similarly qualified), or is the job going to go to another one of his unqualified political cronies?
MargoChanning
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#15re: FEMA director Brown resigns
Posted: 9/12/05 at 5:45pm
Guess Bush decided to be smart and avoid any more controversy around having qualified people in charge:
"The White House later issued a statement saying that President Bush intended to name a replacement, R. David Paulison, to serve as acting under secretary for emergency preparedness and response. Mr. Paulison has been director of FEMA's Preparedness Division and administrator of the United States Fire Administration since his appointment in 2001.
Before joining FEMA, Mr. Paulison, who has 30 years of fire rescue services experience, was chief of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department. He oversaw 1,900 personnel with a $200 million operating budget and a $70 million capital budget, and supervised the county's emergency management office. His emergency management experience includes Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and the crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in 1996, FEMA said in a statement."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/national/nationalspecial/12cnd-fema.html?hp&ex=1126584000&en=4500396bdbcddf70&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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