Sen. Reid: Bush should have fired Brown

[sabra]

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/printer_1047957.php

Sen. Reid: Bush should have fired Brown
By UPI
Sep 13, 2005, 19:00 GMT




WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D.-Nev., said President Bush should have fired Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown before he resigned.

Reid said the entire administration, including the president, is to blame for the government`s poor response to Hurricane Katrina and Brown`s resignation allows Bush to avoid being accountable for the failure.

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Reid opposes efforts by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., to create a bipartisan commission that Reid said would be chosen based on allegiance to GOP leaders rather than seniority.

A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee said Reid is trying to exploit a national tragedy.

[Bumblebee]

1. Yes -- and now he should fire Chertoff!

[lutefisk]

2. Brown showed better judgment than Bush

But then, who doesn't have better judgment than Bush?

[txaslftist]

3. "Reid is trying to exploit a national tragedy"...

...and only Republicans are allowed to do that.

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[sui generis]

4. should never have APPOINTED brown or Chertoff

or unilaterally moved FEMA to a deskjob under DHS.

Appointing a pet rock to be a fireman means you are responsible when houses burn.

[leftylady]

13. That's How I Feel

Putting political people in those positions should have huge political and criminal consequences.

[formerrepuke]

5. Reid could have been more blunt: Brown shouldn't have been head

of FEMA in the first place; his 'qualifications' couldn't be more pathetic (being a pal of Bush, etc). And, as for Reid "trying to exploit a national tragedy"...that's bullshit; If Clinton, Gore, or Kerry were president right now, the Repubs and their pundits throughout the MSM would be be pounding away at the favoritism, the lack of organization, etc, etc.. and they know it.

[depakid]

14. but since the Dems were complicit

in confirming Brown in the first place, Reid obviously couldn't do that.

They're as much to blame as Bush and the Republicans are.

This is yet another example of how DINO's (and cowardice) hurt the party.

[Pendrench]

6. Has anyone ever read "Plain Speaking" - the oral history of Harry Truman?

The reason I ask is because I remember reading that when Truman was told that Gen. MacArthur was going to resign, Truman said (to the effect): "I'm not going to let that SOB resign - I want him fired!!"

And then, of course, Truman fired him...even though he knew he would catch hell for it.

Tim

[confludemocrat]

7. Now we're talkin (n/t)

[ticapnews]

8. A 9-11 spokesman for the 9-11 Nat'l Republican Senatorial 9-11Committee

decried Reid's efforts to speak out about a national tragedy before the GOP could exploit it.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. Yep

That's what I said, too.

Except I think the fact that Brown resigned helps to further place the blame on bush*. If he didn't even have the guts to fire a man who should never have been hired in the first place what other things that we are not aware of has he's just let slide?

Reid is trying to avoid further such disasters, and I support this kind of preemptive action. :patriot:

[LiberalinNC]

10. Why? Bush will never admit when he's wrong! BTW - It's Clinton's Fault!

;)

[truthisfreedom]

12. the Clenis will never, ever, ever be free... they put a harness on that

thing and they take it out, parade it around, and ride it raw at every opportunity.

[truthisfreedom]

11. correction: WAS a national tragedy. turned into a national DISGRACE.

every single Democratic candidate in 2006 should be a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity this year, so we can put food on the families victimized by this DISGRACE. the tragedy would have been one thing... but the high number of deaths were generated by the bush administrations appointments of inept CRONIES who had NO IDEA what they were doing. that's called CRIMINAL NEGLIGENGE, ladies and gentlemen.