I hope the Ex-Fema director gets CrucifiedFollow

Man-eating horses are never something to wish on ANYONE.

Weak.

Ok, ok.



Better?





Edited, Tue Sep 27 19:55:10 2005 by Elderon

It's hartlotX, get it right. You sure have a fetish for that.

Wait! So let me get this straight. 3 weeks ago, when Brown was saying that the problems that occured with Katrina were not his fault, but that it was incompetance at the local level, everyone responded that it was still his responsiblity and since people died, he should resign.

Now, he takes that responsiblity, resigns his post, but still maintains that the disaster's aftermath was not his or FEMAs fault, and the argument is that since he took responsiblity and resigned, it must be his fault and is somehow *wrong* for him to point the blame elsewhere?


This is getting ridiculous. It's abundantly obvious that every single thing that went wrong in NO during and after Katrina was the direct result of an absolute incompetance of the local leaders to manage the emergency. Why is it wrong for Brown to say so? It's the truth. You know. That thing that people always insist they want to know, but seem to often refuse to accept?


I can go down a laundry list of failures at the local and state level. About the only failure at the federal level is not overcoming the absolute screwups done at the local level before they got there. FEMA is basically being blamed because they weren't able to waltz in, sprinkle some magic pixie dust around, and make everything "better".

Sorry. Not buying it. Yeah. Maybe it's a bit silly for him to be hired as a consultant, but that's not really unusual in government. The point is that we've got a situation where they're trying to actually figure out what went wrong, but some people refuse to listen to any side of the issue other then theirs. Bash Brown all you want, but his "side" is just as valuable to figuring out how this failure happened, and maybe how to prevent it in the future as anyone else's.


Don't you think maybe we should figure out who's to blame *before* we decide to crucify someone? Or is that to much of a progressive thought for some people?...

Liberal bias...

I supppose next you're gonna tell me rove deserves to be arrested

Edited, Tue Sep 27 20:11:13 2005 by proofsockXIV

Hell no. I would never do the 49ers.

Yeah, they're not nearly narcissistic enough

This one.





Those puppets know how to work it.

Yes I do think we should wait and see who was responsible for doing what and when. I think Brown was a scapegoat.

I also heard the Chief of police in NO resigned in light of 250 police officers being investigated for leaving their posts during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.

Just seems to me these people had their collective heads up their collective asses all along. It was just a quick fix to blame Brown.

I think it's silly to assume that'll happen when the Pubbies refuse to allow an independent Congressional investigation.

I know. Me too.

More specifically, I should have said "independent investigation", such as the one after 9/11 into what went wrong. Which, as I recall, the Pubbies initially tried to block as well.

What reasons are there for blocking an independent investigation into one of the largest disasters in our nation's history and one that involved all levels of government? Call me cynical, but the only reason I can think of is that someone decided the potential fallout from blocking an independent investigation would be less than the potential fallout from what such an investigation would dig up. When every Pubbie vote is to block an independent investigation and keep it in the hands of the Republican controlled Congress* to investigate the response and see where the blame fell on the Republican controlled federal level or on the Democratic controlled local/state level then, yes, I have a hard time believing it would be unbiased. Given that the current commission has the ability to block any subpeonas requested by the Democrats, yeah I find it hard to imagine a nonbiased judgement. Given that 76% of the public was in favor of an independent investigation, it wouldn't seem I'm in some far Left wing activist rabid Bush hating minority on this.

*Except the Republican senator from LA who mysteriously chose to abstain rather than vote against a measure to investigate the disaster in his home state

Edited, Tue Sep 27 21:16:29 2005 by Jophiel