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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBROWNIE: President Obama may have acted too quickly on Hurricane Sandy this week.
Michael Brown, former President George W. Bush's former FEMA director who was criticized for his slow reaction to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said on Monday that President Obama may have acted too quickly on Hurricane Sandy this week.
Brown said Obama's Sunday press conference with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials was "premature" because the effect of the storm was not felt until a day later.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/264845-bushs-brownie-criticizes-obama-on-sandy
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/30/1110901/bush-fema-director-katrina-hits-obama-sandy/
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)to have to wait at least a day or two to get some sort of relief.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)He was worried about he looked, got to give credit where it's due.
The sheer gall of this deadly failure to resurface rather than be grateful he was not prosecuted for criminal negligence, is simply stunning.
SubgeniusHasSlack
(276 posts)how republickcons handle disasters.
"Heck of a job, brownie."
calimary
(81,297 posts)Glad you're here! And yes, as much as he disgusts us here, we should be happy he's raising his widdle head up above the top of the foxhole. It may indeed remind some voters of what madness we could well be returning to - if they vote for idiots who bring their idiot friends in with them.
We need you to help us keep them out of power!
Now get to work.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Such words of wisdom from a disaster expert
gadgets505
(15 posts)I think I'm gonna puke.
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)If you had tried it, maybe you would not have become a perpetual laughingstock.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)What a maroon.
calimary
(81,297 posts)Glad you're here! And yeah, he's a maroon, and a moran, too! Of all people to weigh in on a day like this...
Well, we need you to help us make sure people like him NEVER have cronies in the White House AGAIN!!!!!!!!
Now get to work.
theinquisitivechad
(322 posts)tries harder to secure his legacy as a putrid, reprehensible, feckless, ignominious disgrace
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Bigleaf
(2,050 posts)What a fucking tool!
lol holy shit
step aside, onion
mattclearing
(10,091 posts)Says everything you need to know about President Obama's response: Brownie says Obama too quick with relief efforts!
Couldn't have been written better by the Onion.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)If Brown isn't totally proven to not know how to do disaster relief what person in the world IS? The correct way to handle this is to not listen, seek and completely ridicule the completely comical idea of Michael Brown trying to give anyone advice how to handle this situation. Why? As his comments point out, he hasn't learned a *ing thing since Katrina. He has no value to add.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)The media will ignore them when they stop screwing up
ashling
(25,771 posts)nothing like making the comparison between our President and the Bush wannabe more stark.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Did Andy Richter really kick that much ass on Jeopardy?
WilliamPitt
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^^^ literally smashed my face on my keyboard ^^^
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Buddaman
(503 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)For you, that would be any time the subject is natural disasters. Ever. For the rest of your life.
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Totally incompetent, completely inexperienced (unless you call his FEMA tenure experience).
Is he back to horse judging now?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)we were in total shock, right and left wing alike, to learn that Heckuvajob Brownie was one and the same as the incompetent jerk fired from his cushy horse show world due to causing so many lawsuits.
Seriously, everybody on the international horse forum I used to hang out on was like is he doing on FEMA? In what universe did running the arabian horse show world into the ground somehow qualify him for a high level FEMA job?!?!
spanone
(135,841 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)What's the rush? Dumbass.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Viking12
(6,012 posts)douche
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)► 0:13► 0:13
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)(2) find the corresponding locations on the map (3) find transportation to the scene (4) report to a real President (5) and employ critical thinking skills.
RepublicansRZombies
(982 posts)Airboaters stalled by FEMA
500 Florida airboat pilots have volunteered to rescue Hurricane Katrina victims, transport relief workers and ferry supplies. But they arent being allowed in. And theyre growing frustrated.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#airboaters
A "floatilla of aid" TURNED BACK from New Orleans
A group of approximately 1,000 citizens pulling 500 boats left the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette this morning (Weds.) and headed to New Orleans with a police escort from the Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Department. The "flotillia" of trucks pulling boats stretched over five miles. This citizen rescue group was organized by La. State Senator, Gautreaux from Vermilion Parish. The group was comprised of experienced boaters, licensed fishermen and hunters, people who have spent their entire adult life and teenage years on the waterways of Louisiana.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#flotilla
Fearing riots, Guard rejects food airdrops
Authorities are avoiding airdropping provisions into New Orleans - the traditional way of supplying disaster victims - out of fear of sparking riots, a state official said.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#airdrops
Homeland Security wont let Red Cross deliver food
"The Homeland Security Department has requested and continues to request that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler, spokeswoman for the Red Cross.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#red_cross
US wont let Canada help Katrina victims
Planes are ready to load with food and medical supplies and a system called "DART" which can provide fresh water and medical supplies is standing by. Department of Homeland Security as well as other U.S. agencies were contacted by the Canadian government requesting permission to provide help. Despite this contact, Canada has not been allowed to fly supplies and personnel to the areas hit by Katrina.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#canada
On BBC: Northern Command was in position, waiting for Presidential orders
We had the USS Baton sailing almost behind the hurricane so that after the hurricane made landfall its search and rescue helicopters would be available almost immediately. So we had things ready. The only caveat is, we have to wait until the President authorizes us to do so. The laws of the United States say that the military cant just act in this fashion, we have to wait for the President to give us permission.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#bbc
Confirmation of BBC report: Navy Ship still unused 6 Days after Katrina!
But today the Bataans hospital facilities, including six operating rooms and beds for 600 patients, are empty. A good share of its 1,200 sailors could also go ashore to help with the relief effort, but they havent been asked. The Bataan has been in the stricken region the longest of any military unit, but federal authorities have yet to fully utilize the ship.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#navy
Daley shocked as feds reject aid
A visibly angry Mayor Daley said the city had offered emergency, medical and technical help to the federal government as early as Sunday to assist people in the areas stricken by Hurricane Katrina, but as of Friday, the only things the feds said they wanted was a single tank truck.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#daley
Virgina Team turned away- others efforts wasted
Twenty-two Loudoun County sheriffs deputies and six medical personnel who left Thursday for the New Orleans area returned home early yesterday because of poor communication between officials in Louisiana and Virginia that left the team without required approvals.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#virginia
FEMA prevents water, fuel delivery- cuts communication lines!
On Meet the Press, the president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, Aaron Broussard, said that FEMA turned away aid and cut their communication lines!
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#fema
Paperwork from DC late to arrive- prevents National Guard from helping
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his states National Guard last Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didnt come from Washington until late Thursday.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#guard
Guardsmen played cards amid New Orleans chaos: police official
A top New Orleans police officer said that National Guard troops sat around playing cards while people died in the stricken city after Hurricane Katrina.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#cards
FEMA Chief Brown caught in a LIE.
In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadnt known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "Weve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that theyve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day." Lies dont get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#brown
Whos Responsible?
Bush reorganized the government specifically to give the Feds more power in an emergency.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#who
Bushs Criminal Ignorance: "I dont think anyone could have anticipated the breach of the levees."
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8066#bush
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Damn. Shut up.
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)jsmirman
(4,507 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Stupid m*tha f*cka.
mtnester
(8,885 posts)I agree with one of the comments I read on the sites reporting this...I was reminded to actively hate this SOB again.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)Take a swim in the Atlantic, Brownie.
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)do you really wish for the train crew to go through the horror of watching someone die?
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)PD Turk
(1,289 posts)You mean this isn't The Onion?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)You're just such a card, it would be hysterically funny if it weren't so tragic...
But do continue on...we appreciate the reminder of W's and the GOP policy of letting the brown people drown to clean out the NO "ghetto." Brings back memories of Babs looking on "those 47% people" in the stadiums chuckling about how it's fine for them, since they're "underprivileged anyway."
Hekate
(90,704 posts)... and he should have been. If we never hear from Heckuvajob Brownie again, it will be too soon.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)It's mind-blowing.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)If not, why not?
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)he thinks the better choice is for people to sit in flood waters for a few days while help is mobilized.