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Mike Brown: He's Baaaack

By Jeralyn, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 06:13:49 PM EST
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Can you believe this? Raw Story reports that according to CBS News, FEMA has rehired the recently resigned Mike Brown..."as a consultant to evaluate the agency's response to the disaster!"

CBS's Katrina Blog reports:

6:44 p.m. (CBS) — 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.

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    Mike Brown: He's Baaaack | 14 comments (14 topical)
    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#1)
    by desertswine on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    Nooooooooooooooooooo...... for the love of god... this can't be real.

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#2)
    by Lww on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    Mike Brown was a poor choice for FEMA director. Bush screwed up. Things should've been done differently. Now lets get to the gist of this demoguery. Unprecedented in both it's scope of destruction and human misery, Katrina is a watershed event in the partisan politics of instant recriminations and accusations in which this country finds itself today. To use human misery to score political points is nothing new, but it's reached a new level with Katrina. The cynical use of this natural disaster to further ones own political standing is on par with the Reichstag fire or the downing of Rwanda's presidential plane. It's an absolute disgrace, both for the country and the political system we thought was above this kind of thing. When (and not if) we suffer another 9-11 will the same people use it to gain political points? Of course they will. Even when their own actions have helped bring it upon us they won't pass up another chance to show how low they can go.

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#3)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    Hey... the boys certainly take care of each other, don't they? Maybe they feel like they have to, since as one headhunter or PR exec noted, Brown is poison on the market: "He's radioactive". Or could it be that he knows where some skeletons are buried?

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    The mediocre frat boy theory strikes again!

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#5)
    by wg on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    I bet George still thinks Brown was doing a heck of a job back there in New Orleans, by his standards at least, so tell me why shouldn't he rehire him?

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#6)
    by wg on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    On crony/graft angle. There is finally a growing realization, in media and otherwise, that the real action in this administration is not in the front office. Rather the real action seems to be at the back door or more specifically the loading dock where everybody connected to this administration, GOP or neocons is feeding on government largesse at the rate never seen in the history of the republic. Security pork, war pork, defence pork, congressional pork, reconstruction pork and we are not talking spam here. Real pork, mountains of it. Cushy jobs for taking for everybody. Gluttony like there was no gluttony before. With nobody worrying about the country any more. O tempora, O mores. I expect the rate of feeding to increase in the waning days of this administration, they realize there is a chance there will be no third term. In that sense the major preoccupation with the current occupant of the front office that we see these days plays into administration hands, if deflects attention from where the real business of this administration is transacted. --- And finally I must admit to getting uneasy about this relentless "piling on George" that we see recently. Let's be honest this is unfair, the expectations should always be realistic, congruent with God given capabilities, children or adults, and this job was always way above George's head. He's doing as well as he could be expected to. If anybody should be blamed here it's the electorate who put him there to his and our chagrin.

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    wg: ..everybody connected to this administration, GOP or neocons is feeding on government largesse at the rate never seen in the history of the republic. Security pork, war pork, defence pork, congressional pork, reconstruction pork and we are not talking spam here. Real pork, mountains of it. FEMA contracts raise questions By The New York Times

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    Since these shameless bastards don't seem to give a damn about the facts, about the law, about the electorate, one has to hope and pray that the Dems will excoriate them with the facts, the law, the electorate. All the Dems have to do is bear witness. And it's about damned time that the MSM has decided that the kid gloves should come off.

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#9)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    Dammable pork September 21, 2005
    The deadliest government mistake was made by Congress. The Army Corps of Engineers had said it wanted $27 million to strengthen the levees protecting New Orleans. Congress said no, though our can't-spend-your-money-fast-enough representatives did appropriate more than that for an indoor rain forest in Iowa. ... But, surprise! It turns out Louisiana got lots of money for Corps of Engineers projects -- hundreds of millions of dollars more than any other state. Congress just spent it on pork projects instead of on the levees.
    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#10)
    by john horse on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    Good grief! Talk about conflict of interest. Essentially, isn't Brown going to be evaluating himself?

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#11)
    by john horse on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    Hiring someone as a consultant after you get rid of them is just another type of golden parachute for executives. Its basically a payoff for not making waves.

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#12)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:20 PM EST
    Some people have no shame, they can't help but stick their snout in the feedbucket. If Mike Brown had a shred of character, he wouldn't accept the position.
    If anybody should be blamed here it's the electorate who put him there to his and our chagrin.
    Can't argue with that. GDub was never qualified to lead the free world. If the voters are willing to elect such a man, you really can't blame him for taking the job and taking care of his buddies.

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:21 PM EST
    The hearing is nothing but a Republican apologist show to shore up Bushco and blame others Brown's continued to lie about his background and did the typicalBush call the media liars routine..after all he said .."isn't that what the press does.." the man is a shameless piece of crap

    Re: Mike Brown: He's Baaaack (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:21 PM EST
    The LWW troll: "Mike Brown was a poor choice for FEMA director. Bush screwed up. Things should've been done differently." Too bad passive voice doesn't work when you're president. IT'S AN IMPEACHMENT OFFENSE TO PUT INCOMPETENTS IN CRITICAL JOBS. The wg troll: "And finally I must admit to getting uneasy about this relentless "piling on George" that we see recently. Let's be honest" You're not an US. You're a THEM.

    Mike Brown: He's Baaaack | 14 comments (14 topical)