Would someone please crucify Michael Brown?

[bustarbusto]

Testimony by a FEMA employee (nyt)

Worker Tells of Response by FEMA

By ERIC LIPTON
Published: October 21, 2005

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - It was on the day before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, after thousands of people had packed the Superdome, that the lone FEMA worker in New Orleans sent his first plea for help.

"Issues developing at the Superdome," the official, Marty J. Bahamonde, wrote in an agency e-mail message released Thursday by Congressional investigators. "The medical staff at the dome says they will run out of oxygen in about two hours."

Mr. Bahamonde sent a series of messages as the hours and days passed, desperation growing. Most startling, he told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday, was that his supervisors in Washington did not seem to understand. In a series of e-mail messages in which he warned of worsening problems, he was told that the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency needed time to eat dinner at a restaurant in Baton Rouge, La., and to have a television interview.

"It was sad, it was inhumane, it was heartbreaking, and it was so wrong," Mr. Bahamonde said of the conditions and the response. "There was a systematic failure at all levels of government to understand the magnitude of the situation."

More (registration, probably, but it's a good, infuriating read): http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/national/nationalspecial/21response.html

[Ganja Ninja]

1. I'm beginning to think this guy is Bush's clone. n/t

[mattomjoe]

2. Just make sure he gets his dinner in first

[Lasher]

3. Heck, he hasn't even been fired.

He's still on the government payroll, as a consultant to FEMA. Gotta take good care of all those cronies, with taxpayers' money.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Thread from yesterday.

"_Bahamonde to Taylor and Michael Widomski, public affairs, Aug. 31, 2:44 p.m.

"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! No won't go any further, too easy of a target. Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants. Maybe tonight I will have time to move my pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I try to sleep.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5114179

[FSogol]

5. Do they still run people out of town on a rail?

He needs that treatment.

[Pirate Smile]

6. Tarred and Feathered?

[SpiralHawk]

7. At the same time Bush was Suckin Up Cake with McCain

Anybody got that photo of Bush sucking the fat frosting off of his thumb.

A thumbsucker special. Bush and his failed CRONY appointees all turned their back on the Gulf States -- and fiddled while they drowned.

Impeach the Imperial Thumb Sucker !

Cany anyone post that photo in this thread?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. After the medal, only after he gets the medal.

You have to time these things right.