OMG! Press asking directly about Brown's qualifiations.

[Be Brave]

Unbelievable! Press conf now on CNN.

[Walt Starr]

1. And he LIED HIS ASS OFF! PAdded the resume BIG TIME!

[salin]

5. what did he say?

[Be Brave]

7. He basically spewed out a list of his emergency management

experience.

[VolcanoJen]

12. It was obvious that he'd been coached by Rove.

I'm sure Karl told him to expect the press to question his qualifications eventually, and had him memorize a laundry list of "accomplishments." The list was so long as to make it unquestionable.

Rove's greasy fingerprints are all over this operation now.

[Don Claybrook]

2. And who are they asking this of?

Thank you.

[ancient_nomad]

3. Michael D Brown, head of FEMA n/t

[Be Brave]

4. Chertoff, Brown, Honore holding televised press conf.

One reporter asked about Brown's background.

[Don Claybrook]

6. Thanks....brings up an interesting question

Who gets to be the arbiter of truth when the sane world knows that this guy Brown is the least qualified idiot to ever have worked for Bush (and that's saying something).

But the administration just keeps on denying reality, over and over again. What breaks the impasse? What causes the entire populace of this country to say, no, dumbass, you can't tell bald-faced lies like that. You cannot make something true just because you want it to be true. There's a TON of video evidence to prove that these guys are either the most incompetent people ever to walk or that they're lying through their teeth, or some combination of both. What will it take for the reporter/anchor/whoever to look at the camera and say, these are the words of Mike Brown, who just told a demostrable lie again. When will someone just come right out and say it?

[norml]

19. Michael Jerkoff

[zippy890]

21. GAK!

Skeletor the Incompetent!

[mwb970]

8. Republicans can no longer even recognize the truth.

There is an amazing group psychosis going on here. Once it's all over, it'll be fun to study, if there's anything left.

[norml]

9. Horsey Brown

[Imagevision]

10. THIS IS EXCELLANT, IT'S A WAY TO CHIP APART BROWN'S

QUALIFICATIONS, AND WHO EXACTLY HIRED HIM AND WHY!

[Hubert Flottz]

13. I've posted this three times but Bush isn't the only one who can

repeat things! And this should be blasted far and wide!

Wexler Calls for FEMA Director's Resignation
Letter to President Requests Brown's Dismissal for Fraudulent Payments Made by FEMA After Hurricane

(Washington, DC) - Today, Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) sent the following letter to President George Bush requesting that he immediately remove Michael Brown from his position as head of the Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Under Secretary Brown's agency disbursed over $30 million in disaster relief money, which was allocated to over 10,000 Miami-Dade claimants after Hurricane Frances, which made landfall more than 100 miles away and there was no more than a heavy rainstorm. According to several news accounts by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, "FEMA has written checks to cover new wardrobes, cars, lawn mowers, vacuum cleaners, furniture and thousands of televisions, microwave ovens, stoves, air conditioners and other appliances." In addition, the Sun-Sentinel sites that FEMA paid $4,500 for one resident's funeral, even though the county medical examiner recorded no storm-related deaths. Another Sun-Sentinel article stated that two residents received aid for "dental treatments due to dental injuries received during the disaster." In six other cases, FEMA reimbursed residents for damage caused by "ice/snow."

On Monday, January 11, FEMA held a news conference acknowledging that they made $12 million in overpayments to 3,500 individuals - blaming these overpayments on a "computer glitch." FEMA, however, continues to deny additional systematic problems and cites the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to prove that there were legitimate hurricane conditions in Miami-Dade. Yet, according to the Sun-Sentinel, NOAA has refuted the weather maps FEMA claims to have obtained from them. As the head of FEMA, Under Secretary Brown oversees federal disaster response and recovery operations, and it is negligent of him to refuse to accept responsibility for its agency mistakes.

"Rather than taking responsibility for FEMA's mishaps and moving expeditiously to correct the problems, Under Secretary Brown has further undermined his agency's reputation by stymied investigations and inquiries into fraud allegations. FEMA's massive misallocation of recovery aid is a gross waste of taxpayer monies, which must be immediately addressed by the Bush Administration," Wexler said.

http://www.wexler.house.gov/news.php?ID=26

[Vinca]

18. FEMA paid for ice and snow damage in Florida??????

Oh, Mr. Brown . . . I've got a large tower in Paris I can sell you.

[SlowDownFast]

11. They all but stormed out of that press conference!

The press was asking the hard questions and Honore got pissed!

[Don Claybrook]

14. Someone remind General Superstar that he works for us

I'm seeing some cult of personality hero worship of this guy. Maybe he's doing wonders, maybe he's a shill for the administration, I don't know. But either way, he needs to answer the questions put to him or not show up at the press conference.

He may be the most wonderful person in the world, but his association with the Bush Administration is reason to carefully dissect everything he says. They have proven time and again that their words cannot be believed. They'd rather have people die than to take responsibility for anything, ever. So, General Honore, get used to the idea of having your every move questioned, or get out of the way. This is far too serious for your military ego to have a seat at the table.

[Be Brave]

15. The reporters turn to sheep before him. n/t

[FormerRepublican]

16. Maybe the Cult of Personality is more BushCo spin.

Along the lines of "Bush put this hero in there to SAVE people, so what a hero Bush is."

:puke:

[NYC]

20. That's what I suspect.

[imax2268]

17. oh boy...

another press conference...

man...these idiots are really spewing out the shit aren't they...?

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. MSNBC just did a report on Brownie's lack of qualifications

They laid it all out including showing a clip of Jr. saying what a fine job brownie was doing, at his recent photo op. It was bee yoo tee ful! :evilgrin: