Heckuva Job Brown: I Told Bush on August 30 That NOLA Was 90% Destroyed ->

[Stephanie]

Katrina hit on the morning of Monday, August 29th.

Bush ignored Kat-astrophe, Brownie sez
BY DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Ex-FEMA boss Michael Brown went back on the offensive yesterday, claiming he personally told President Bush that Hurricane Katrina had destroyed 90% of New Orleans - but still got little federal help.

The much-maligned Brown said he told Bush during a teleconference on Aug. 30 that the city was all but demolished.

"I remember my first words to him were: `Mr. President, my estimate is that 90% - 90% - of the population of New Orleans has now been displaced,'" Brown told "NBC Nightly News" in his first network news interview.

Bush seemed taken aback, Brown recalled. "There was just that split second of silence. And : `90 percent?'

"'Yes, sir, I believe it is that bad. That's how bad it is,'" Brown said he told the President.

"I really thought that would get just the whole mechanism of the federal government to come charging in," he told NBC's Brian Williams.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/395380p-335209c.html

What George Did on August 30, 2006 >


He woke up at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, after a fundraiser the night before >



He gave a speech about Iraq aboard a Navy ship >





Rummy was there - he attended a Padres game the night before >



George was presented with a guitar and clowned for the cameras with it >



Then he returned to Crawford to sleep in his own bed >

[Scout1071]

1. Great pictorial.

That makes me so mad just looking at how he ignored the death and destruction. Son of a bitch. Makes me want to scream.

[Stephanie]

16. It's the last shot that kills me the most.

There they are after their five-week vacation, sunburned, Laura in her sunglasses like she's just stepping off the Royal Yacht, George waving to the folks, thinking only about their dinner and their soft bed. Bush hasn't even seen the newscasts at this point. He spent the night in a luxury hotel suite and he couldn't even be BOTHERED to flip on CNN. Tomorrow he will do his famous flyover, but even that doesn't do the trick. They still have to burn newscasts to DVD for him on Thursday night to get him to watch it. Of course their only concern is how it will affect their poll numbers, so they start planning some photo-ops, which is why you got "Heckuva job, Brownie" on Friday.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Incredibly pathetic

when an incompetent lacky makes you look bad. Brownie is doing a hecukuva job trying to clean up his image. On 30 August we were hunkered down in South Mississippi watching the pine trees topple over and hoping to hell we were gonna live through it.

[Stephanie]

23. On August 30 George was tucking into a nice dinner by his personal chef

and sleeping snug in his Crawford bed enjoying the last night of his vacation. On Wednesday he finally did a flyover to see the damage on the way back to DC. On Thursday he finally watched some news footage, burned to DVD for him by his staff. On Friday he did the "heckuva job brownie" photo-op in a desperate attempt to save his image.

[Richard Steele]

3. Heckuva job, Georgie!

[Tamarin]

4. Excellent! And, Condi was buying expensive shoes and

Cheney was buying an expensive house. All this while people clung to their roofs for days without water. Heckuva job, Bushco.

[Stephanie]

7. And Rove was paying a thank you visit to the Crawford Freepers

Down there on the "ranch"

[lavenderdiva]

5. thank you Stephanie...

this pictorial only underscores the complete lack of understanding and empathy by Shrub. It is very powerful....

edit: Nominated!!

[NV Whino]

6. Stephanie, thanks for all the photos

you dig up for DU. You are an invaluable resource.

[Stephanie]

15. thanks!

:hi:

[sabra]

8. people are visual in nature... your pictorial hits the bullseye!

[tanyev]

9. Kat-astrophe?

No tragedy too great that we can't let the headline writers have a little fun, eh?

[Hissyspit]

10. The night before the night before * woke up at the Hotel Coronado

I turned to my family and said "Mr. President, we've lost New Orleans."

[Stephanie]

11. We all did.

DU knew on Sunday. Why didn't George?

[understandinglife]

12. K&R.

Peace.

[Mr_Spock]

13. WHY isn't this person who commited negligent homicide in jail??

Why didn't Brownie say this sooner??

[Stephanie]

14. He didn't even watch CNN like the rest of us.

They had to burn him a DVD of the news reports - on THURSDAY NIGHT.

[Stephanie]

24. and Boy George didn't even watch the DVD until FRIDAY!

article is here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=541706&mesg_id=541874

[zippy890]

17. great post!

:dem:

he really doesn't care about black people, low-income people, anyone who isn't rich & loyal to him.

[warrens]

18. "90 percent," he said. "Is that more than half?" nt

[blm]

19. This belonged on the front page of every newspaper. Then and now.

This pictorial illustrates what THIS Nero chose to do while Katrina savaged a large part of this nation.

[Stephanie]

21. Why isn't it?

How come nobody has seen this pictures, except us denizens of the dark dungeons of the internets?

[blm]

25. Not just seeing the pics - putting together the storyline with them. The

media should be found criminally negligent for not holding this fascist administration accountable for 6 years now.

Your pics tell more of a real story about Bush's negligence than any 6months of CNN's Katrina reporting.

[Stephanie]

28. thank you

apologies for all the reposting of them but i can't stop myself.

[Lochloosa]

20. Let's not leave out Condi....

[Stephanie]

22. I do hope she enjoyed Spamalot.

While New Orleans drowned.

[tomreedtoon]

26. Maybe he thought it was "nineTEEN percent."

After all, he was never very good at math, let alone anything in school. And nineteen percent might have let him think only black people were killed, and no one would notice them gone.

[IronLionZion]

27. absolutely asinine

It has been established over and over that Bushco has a callous disregard for human life unless they are profiteering like pirates. So unless Halliburton gets a no-bid contract, what would be their motivation to help the people of NOLA?

People like Bushco are the worst people on earth. They were put here only to test the resolve of good people and shock us into action. We as a nation should have done more even though our government was fucking worthless.

Many repubs want government agencies to be rendered worthless just so they can get rid of them during budget cuts. ...so small that Grover Norquist can drown it in a bathtub.

[noonwitch]

29. I guess Brownie doesn't like being the fall guy very well

The arabian horse guy should have seen something like this coming when he accepted the FEMA position.