Coming up on Lou Dobbs: "Michael Brown. Is he fit to lead?"

[Gabi Hayes]

I saw the little lettering saying: Is he fit to lead, and immediately thought/hoped they were talking about the Dauphin.

no such luck

so far, though, much of the show has focused on the huge cockup this whole scene has been, so I think it'll be interesting to see just how hard they come down on this horsemilker.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. on now....showed clip of him reading off his experience since

he got his patronage job

[Gabi Hayes]

3. just showed the exchange between him and Zahn, in which he

admitted that he had no idea that anybody was in the Convenetion Center

they're being VERY rough on him so far

[BlueJac]

2. Fire Brown...

send him back to the horse show curcuit!!!

[senseandsensibility]

20. They fired him!

The horse shows won't take him back.

[charlie]

4. Looks like Brown's getting tossed overboard

He'll have to lay low for a while before Dubya gives him a medal.

[Clark2008]

5. On now.

I can't believe the Reich-wing media's actually doing the story.

Money is still bigger than political pressure, apparently. Many people are PISSED about the inaction of BushCo.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. good point....somebody said that Fox's numbers have gone down

since the storm, cause they're candycoating everything, and CNN's numbers are up

you could be right about that

let's HOPE the numbers do nothing but go up for them, and encourage them to keep up the good work

now....Jesse Jackson's on

Dobbs just axed him why he hasn't criticized the local government, instead of going after Bush

Dobbs is really going after Jackson, regarding local misfeasance, but not buying Jackson's "giving a pass to the governor of the state" for what happened just isn't credible

[Gabi Hayes]

6. hahahaha....called FEMA a "political honeypot!"

said he's not available for individual interview

said he's not popular with those who actually work at FEMA, that he's a gasp.....FIGurehead!

sound familiar?

[BlueJac]

9. Fucking joke

[Gabi Hayes]

7. hahahaha....called FEMA a "political honeypot!"

said he's not available for individual interview

said he's not popular with those who actually work at FEMA, that he's a gasp.....FIGurehead!

sound familiar?

[RamboLiberal]

23. I saw Brown all over the TV last week - was it Wed or Thur

or both. But point is he was giving interview after interview while the crisis was at it's height. Some DU'er posted he must've been on something like 6 hours. That's time away from what he really should've been doing. He was getting skewered on the interviews I saw, and I thought Koppel almost had him crying.

Bet Rove told him to get his damn face off TV except for that damage control bit today. Ain't gonna work. Bet by next month, end of year at latest, he'll suddenly have to devote more time to his family.

[Cush]

8. just said the 'rank & file" FEMA members don't have confidence in Brown

[speedoo]

10. Why are they not analyzing Chertoff in the same way?

His qualifications are woeful as well, and his performance has been equally shameful.

[AlCzervik]

12. i really hope Lou doesn't bash Gov. Blanco.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. he is now...via JEsse Jackson

[Media_Lies_Daily]

22. Dobbs pissed me off the way he kept drowning out Jackson.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

21. He did....and Mayor Nagin, and the city council. Sigh.

[Dudley_DUright]

14. and who exactly hired Brown after Allbaugh left to

cash in on Iraq contracts, Lou? You really are talking about the shrub after all. :mad:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. No. The real question: How soon till he skulks away or is shoved out?

[PA Democrat]

16. The question SHOULD be: Bush. Is he fit to lead?

Because once again Bush has shown how his poor choice of appointees have damaged this country. Brown, Chertoff, Bolton, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, just to name a few.

[Minstrel Boy]

17. Brown's head comes too cheap.

The limited hangout is "Brown is incompetent."

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Brown is the first chink in the armor

in the whole Bushco apparatus. The very fact that demands for his firing are being aired, even on the right (Michelle Malkin called for him to be fired) shows that the Blanco spin is failing miserably, and that Bushco will have to offer up a concession. For the first time ever. PUSH, PEOPLE!!! PUSH for Brown to be fired. We already called our senators and rep on this. Do the same, especially if you live in a Republican district. He's an embarrassment and he should be fired, but he's also a prime example of Bush's so-called "leadership style" - the filling of crucial positions with ideologues and cronies. Fire Brown then open up that can of worms. Pick them off one by one. Chertoff will be unable to defend retaining Brown, so he's next.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Caligula appointed his horse to the Roman Senate

Bush appointed a horse association man. Did Bush not know that Brown was fired from his horse association? Did Bush not know that Allbaugh wanted Brown in FEMA because he was his frathouse roommate? If anything, the President is directly responsible for the screw ups made by his underlings, especially when those underlings are underqualified. That's a notion well-established in tort law at any rate, when applied to companies.

[Imagevision]

24. BROWN IS ONLY AN EXAMPLE OF BUSH APPOINTEE'S

IT APPEARS THAT THIS PRESIDENT SHOULD NOT BE IN CHARGE OF DELEGATION


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