FEMA Director Brown fired from last job

[Tony_FLADEM]

Subject: FEMA Director Brown fired from his last job....
Message:
The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.

And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.

The Oklahoman got the job through an old college friend who at the time was heading up FEMA.

The agency, run by Brown since 2003, is now at the center of a growing fury over the handling of the New Orleans disaster.




http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=100857

[kenny blankenship]

1. well it was a very cushy job, so it's still a pretty good reference

it means rich people found his bullshitting plausible for a while. When you're rejected by the best, that's a feather in your cap, you might say, when applying for "government work" where standards are so much lower and what you're doing doesn't really matter. So, he's got that goin' for him.

[Autonomy]

2. Remarkably similar to Bush's qualifications

to become Texas governor.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Thank goodness the media is finally catching up to.........

this criminal gang of thugs. Where the hell have they been all this time? Does it take a calamity like this every time to get the damned media to do their freaking jobs? Unfreakingbelievable.

[KT2000]

4. All he was expected to do

was arrange the contracts for Little Lord Pissy Pants' friends.

[havocmom]

5. No signaficiant experience? How about horse breeding?

Didn't he head some association of Arabian Horsebreeders?

Hey, wait a minute... Arabian horses? Hmmmmm.... Isn't Arabia where a lot of those 9-11 guys were from? :hide:

[rzemanfl]

8. He did his job, no Arabian horses died in New Orleans. Stole

that line.

[rzemanfl]

6. See www.horsesass.org, scroll down to "fucking disaster." n/t

[Pepperbelly]

7. poltical functionary ... Geez ...

to put a fucking functionary into a gig like this. How stupid can Bush possibly be? Can he really be this stupid or is he fucking up on purpose?