Bush Picks New FEMA Head Without Knowing Previous One Resigned

[jsamuel]

He didn't even know about it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/katrina_brown

The president ducked questions about Brown's resignation. "Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working," the president said to reporters on an inspection tour of damage in Gulfport, Miss. Bush said he planned to talk with Brown's boss, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, from Air Force One on the flight back to Washington.
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Yet he managed to pick a new one:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12503695.htm

Bush picks Paulison as acting FEMA head
12 Sep 2005 20:56:42 GMT

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Monday named David Paulison, a top official in the Homeland Security Department, to replace Michael Brown on an acting basis as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Bush moved quickly to put Paulison in charge of FEMA after Brown resigned the position under fire for the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina that killed hundreds and displace 1 million people.

[Teaser]

1. kick

weird.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Once again, The Weasel weasels

Lying bastard gives weasels a bad name.

[havocmom]

11. Hello, I'm from the Weasel Antidefamation League

and we would like you to stop comparing those rat bastards to weasels!

Glad to see you around. You were missed. :hi: Don't abandon me to keep these kids in line again! ;)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

28. No joke

A friend of mine does an internationally syndicated cartoon, and once he used a ferret in one of his 'toons. Faster than you would believe, he was trounced by ferret-lovers everywhere. I mean, his email locked up because so many people wrote to him to protest his mean treatment of ferrets - which make wonderful pets, these morons wanted him to know. Some threatened him, others just threatened his family.

So, you see why your subject line scared the hell out of me.

Hiya, kid. Yeah, I'm around, looking, watching, taking names and putting them in The Permanent Record. They'll stay in line, never fear.

:hi:

[Imagevision]

19. Any background check? who says he meets the requirements?

[MADem]

32. Anyone who has more experience than Brownie is a step up

but that is not saying much....

[Snotcicles]

42. If you've seen one money funnel you've seen them all n/t

[Snotcicles]

41. I was going to say weasel my ass, his a pathological liar. n/t

[DemonFighterLives]

3. He Just Names Them

Doesn't have a clue what they do afterwords.
:crazy:

[RC]

31. When you are the dictator, what do you need with a chain of command?

Loyalty is all that is needed.

[DemonFighterLives]

43. Aw yes, stick to the company line

Get your duct tape and plastic.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Bush did not choose him, Dick did

but this is the kind of disconect taht drives us all nuts

[maine_raptor]

5. So???????

He went to war because of Saddam's WMD without knowing if Saddam had any.

So this should be no surprise.

[aquart]

13. Good grief. What nonsense.

George would NEVER have attacked Saddam if he thought he had real weapons. George only plays when he thinks the deck is stacked in his favor. He's a gutless, cowardly, schoolyard bully. He only picks on the weak and cowers before the strong.

[rzemanfl]

6. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. What a joke this

administration is...

[Frustratedlady]

17. Answers Why the Trip to NO

That way, he could be AWOL when Cheney handled the dirty work and Brown "resigned". I'll bet that was all lined up before Bush left town...that way he didn't have to get his hands dirty by telling Brown either quit or out the door you go.

Once AWOL, always AWOL.

[havocmom]

7. In name only

Let's hope All Hat/No Cattle also doesn't have access to the real football either.

Anybody who thinks he is actually the guy running things just is not paying attention.

Congress: How much more evidence do you need to get up and do something about the fact that the executive branch is NOT working along the lines the Constitution laid out? For gods' sake, address the issue that people without Constitutional authority are the ones wielding power.

[Armstead]

8. He was working

That's his job, to walk around trying to look resolute and shaking hands.

The boring details are left to everyone else.

[tex-wyo-dem]

9. The more I hear about *'s weird, detached behavior...

the more I think that Georgie really doesn't know what the hell is going on most of the time...

His "people" are the ones pulling the strings...bubble boy just likes playing king.

[tavalon]

37. Sadly, I'm becoming more and more convinced

that he does have some sort of organic brain syndrome and that the bastard will probably die blissfully unaware of the evil he committed and facilitated.

That just doesn't seem fair. It didn't seem fair with Reagan either.

[madaboutharry]

10. Here is what I want to know:

WHO THE FUCK IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY?

[havocmom]

12. No one who actually stood for election

Which seems to me to be somewhat, oh, UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Throw Dick & Rove in irons, they have obviously staged a coup ;)

[texpatriot2004]

15. kick them in the ass for that last "election" n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

14. cheney

bush is the sock puppet

in a dark blue shirt

in sweaty New Orleans

workin' hard

sweaty pits an' all

[MADem]

34. He changed into a light colored checked shirt

Guess the blue one got too STANKY!

[Imagevision]

16. What are his qualifications in disaster relief situations?

[jsamuel]

18. he is the "duct tape and plastic" guy

[5X]

20. Oh no, don't tell me..... n/t

[jsamuel]

21. CNN: WH now saying that he "knew already", but didn't know that it was

going to be made public

.......

[marions ghost]

25. oh sure...

he knew already but was going to deny it until it was made public two hours later? Doesnt make sense...still amounts to a weird disconnect

[Lone_Star_Dem]

29. Not buying that excuse

If he knew they would have prepared a response for him for when it did go public.

He was in the dark as usual.

[bribri16]

22. What is even scarier is that Bush's poll numbers are going UP!!! n/t

[SemiCharmedQuark]

23. Scary but not surprising. Have you got a link?

Working? What is he working on? Chutes and Ladders?

[jsamuel]

24. no they aren't, Gallup had bush at 45, now 46 - no real change

[MADem]

38. Suggests he may have stauched the bleeding a little

If he has any hope of getting that peg to swing for him, EVERYTHING HAS TO GO RIGHT. No more hurricanes, no more rise in gas prices, a MILD winter so the increases in fuel oil and natural gas are not felt, and those darn old insurgents in Iraq just need to hold hands, sing a song, and decide they really want to go home and eat kabab and rice.

[trof]

26. I bet Bush* gets pissed whe they do stuff without telling him.

"Darn it, Dick. Couldn't you at least let me know a little ahead of time when you're going to fire somebody and hire somebody else? I wind up looking like I'm not in charge. I mean I KNOW I'm not really in charge, but I hate it when it shows. Karl and Karen don't like it either."

"George? Go fuck yourself. That's a good boy. Now run along and play."

[mzteris]

27. so the appointment story

was out there at 4:56 pm EDT

and the Bush didn't know story went up on the net at about 5:00 pm?

and the Brown resigns story went up on the net about 4:00 PM?

hmmmmmmmmmmm.......

[pinto]

30. Caught that, too. Odd tightrope * walks. Not responsible - in charge....

not responsible - in charge.
I thought the "You may know more about this than I do" response to a reporter was telling. He immediately realized it was the *wrong* answer and went to the talking point....

[TexanDem]

33. do you really think Bush himself makes these decisions?

[tavalon]

35. He's so not good at the pretend game

but he's even worse at the reality game.

Yo, Georgie, Brownie said he would fall on the sword but if you're going to make it look like it was his idea, you need to hold off just a few minutes until he gets to do his part before you do yours. I know you suck at waiting but really.

[spanone]

36. It's Not Easy Being the Dumb-Ass-in-Chief

[jokerman93]

39. Nobody's in charge?

Who's making the calls here? Is bush so ineffectual now that he's actually falling out of the decision loop? Are his nannies having a hard time keeping up with the pace of the damage control?

[newswolf56]

40. Unfortunately, the continued focus on Brown...

is a classic red herring, distracting our attention from the real causes of the debacle of New Orleans: Bush's venomous hostility toward working families and the poor (whether black or white); the Bush Administration policies derived from that hostility (cutbacks in levee-improvement and disaster-relief funds, destruction of the social safety net in general); the malicious racism within the administration that made the impact of Bush's hateful policies even worse; the vicious racism of Americans in general that now protects Bush by guaranteeing that the public -- simply because it doesn't give a damn -- will not hold Bush or his administration culpable for what happened.

As long as the focus is kept on Brown, we as a nation will not even begin the self-critical discussion we need to have -- especially about the fact (proven by the public's reaction) that American racism is as widespread and malevolent as ever.

[applegrove]

44. He's playing dumb. He's got to get people back to underestimating

him.

Next we'll hear that Homeland Security has taken the WH under its umbrella.

[arcos]

45. kick nt

[PDittie]

46. Stupid, or a liar?

Gosh, that's hard work choosing between those two...

:freak: