Chertof: We can't stop to THINK about how we're doing this!

[AlGore-08.com]

He obviously studied at the feet of this master of disaster planning:

[wurzel]

1. He said on MTP he gets his information from Newspaper headlines.

I'm not kidding. He actually said he thought everything was OK in NO after the storm because the Newspapers said so.

[blondeatlast]

11. I heard that; my immediate thought was "if al-Qaeda had struck instead

of Katrina, would we be any safer?"

And the sickening thing about it is, either answer, yes or no--is NOT reassuring at all.

[izzie]

2. Think-- now that is a word they need in DC

This is like living in a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

[stray cat]

3. Sounds like the same strategy they have for Iraq

We can't plan beforehand or stop to think in the process.

[applegrove]

4. So they admit to not "thinking". What do you think hiring Witt was all

about? It is about expertise & competence.

The Bushites just keep on keeping on with the intentional incompetence.

[AlGore-08.com]

5. Even worse, when Wolf Blitzer of all people asked him about Brown's lack

of experience - - that Brown ran an Arabian Horse Judging company before being the head of FEMA - - Chertof huffed that they had a lot of huricanes in 2004, so Brown had a real "baptism by fire".

When do we wake up and find Bobby Ewing taking a shower?

[Garbo 2004]

10. Which makes his incompetence now all the worse and without excuse.

As I recall 2004 was an election year and the hurricanes hit Florida where ol Jeb is gov. Think that made any difference in response?

[MO_Dem]

6. "Scarlet O'Hara" Chertoff

May he and the rest of the gang be "Gone With the Wind" soon!

[Imagevision]

7. Jerkoff and Brown should be asked to leave the building

Allow Dewitt to run the show!

[opihimoimoi]

12. All we get are excuses upon excuses.....beyond help.. they hat to admit

they are Guessing..... They don't know how to THIMK.....

[aion]

8. Is it just me, or

...is Chertoff's face more sunken-in since we last saw him?

[gratuitous]

9. Where and when did he say this?

And can we get him to repeat it under oath? Like, at an impeachment hearing in the Senate?

[Garbo 2004]

13. Yup which is why they have disaster planning and mitigation...oops they

cut funding for that.

And guess they didn't learn anything from FEMA's 2004 Hurricane Pam scenario exercise. The one where a hurricane hits NOLA? Flooding, destruction and survivors who need attending and relief? Funny, FEMA still has info about it on their website. Wonder how long it will take them to "disappear" it from their site so they can continue to sing the "no one could have imagined" duet with Condi.