Leibermans' negligence helped install Michael Brown?

[Atman]

This is a good article in its own right; it is subject of another thread, THE MEDIOCRE FRAT BOY THEORY OF LIFE, but when I read it, this particular passage caught my eye and made me gnash my teeth...this jack-off Bush Lite is my goddam senator.

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Mike Brown had a powerful friend: his college buddy Joe Allbaugh, who was one of George W. Bush's key aides. When Bush became president he appointed Allbaugh to head FEMA, and within a couple of months Allbaugh had chosen Brown to be the agency's top lawyer. A few months later Brown was promoted to deputy director, and the year after that President Bush nominated him to head the entire agency.

Aided by Senate negligence, and in particular that of Democratic committee Chair Joe Lieberman, Brown sailed through the appointment process for one of the federal government's two top disaster response positions, even though a glance at what was an obviously puffed up résumé should have set off alarm bells.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4075507,00.html

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[TomInTib]

1. There may be some here who...

could let us know even 5 worthy actions Joe has taken.
I cannot stand looking/listening at/to him anymore.
What was Gore thinking?

[cosmicdot]

2. Lieberman should've checked with the International Arabian ...

Horse Association ...

"Joe 'Funeralgate' Allbaugh Destroyed FEMA"

Submitted by Bob Fertik on September 4, 2005 - 10:11pm. Bush Scandals | FEMA | Hurricane Katrina 2005

After Bush stole the White House in 2000, he put his close crony Joe Allbaugh in charge of FEMA.

Allbaugh had been Bush's chief of staff when Bush was Texas Governor, and then served as Campaign Manager in the 2000 election. He was the least well known of the powerful "Iron Triangle" - Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, and Joe Allbaugh.

When Allbaugh was put in charge of FEMA, he was still at the center of a whistleblower lawsuit brought by Eliza May, the former executive director of the Texas Funeral Service Commission. The scandal became known as "Funeralgate":

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Allbaugh also appointed his college chum Michael Brown as General Counsel of FEMA - after he was fired from the International Arabian Horse Association, where he was called "an unmitigated, total fucking disaster" - and put him in charge of FEMA when he left.


http://www.democrats.com/node/5960

[LittleClarkie]

3. Shame on you, Joe

Maybe you guys are right. He is in Bush's back pocket.