National Review's Rod Dreher: THE COST OF CRONYISM

[BurtWorm]

:wow: (note the past tense!)


http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_09_04_corner-archive.asp#076094


It would be very wrong, I believe, to let the ignominious Michael Brown be the scapegoat for FEMA's sins. Check out this front-pager from the WaPo. Turns out that a raft of FEMA's top leaders have little or no emergency management experience, but are instead politically well connected to the GOP and the White House. This is a scandal, a real scandal. How is it possible that four years after 9/11, the president treats a federal agency vital to homeland security as a patronage prize? The main reason I've been a Bush supporter all along is I trusted him (note past tense) on national security -- which, in the age of mass terrorism, means homeland security too. Call me naive, but it's a real blow to learn that political hacks have been running FEMA, of all agencies of the federal government! What if al-Qaeda had blown the New Orleans levees? How much worse would the crony-led FEMA's response have been? Would conservatives stand for any of this for one second if a Democrat were president? If this is what Republican government means, God help the poor GOP Congressmen up for re-election in 2006.

[Pirate Smile]

1. I think this is true also.

"JPod is exactly right--the Brown compromise is the worst of all worlds. Either have him resign or not..."

Sending him back to DC to help with future disasters is just idiotic and should terrify the American public.

Let's pretend everything went great. Bush can NEVER admit a mistake.

We (and the press) need to force them to keep defending this clown or fire him

[AX10]

2. Brown has to go, PERIOD.

[kestrel91316]

3. "Bush can never admit a mistake"??? Oh you silly ..............

Bush never MAKES mistakes. Didn't you know he's the Second Coming of Christ?