sounds like James Lee Witt is unofficially taking over FEMA

[blitzen]

he's talking right now (on CNN Anderson Cooper) about how he and Mike Brown just met and are in synch about setting up a command and control organization that will be in place tomorrow

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. At least let someone in who has a clue .

[MadeinOhio]

2. Finally James Lee Witt takes over everything...Next Chertoff resign!

Chertoff can go be the bathtub boy, that sick scounderel. :grr:

[MSgt213]

3. It sure does sound like that. He said he just got there Friday and was

working night and day to set it up. The former Mayor was right to be angry about this just getting done. However, its not James Witts fault is wasn't done sooner. It the idiot Director Brown's.

[mountainvue]

4. That's the impression I got too. n/t

[Spazito]

5. I have no doubt that he is, in essence, getting things moving

and has taken over the organizing and coordination.

[wakeme2008]

6. BUT BUT BUT it's a Clinton's man that is coming to the rescue

:) :) :)

[leetrisck]

7. Fantastic! Someone the people can have

confidence & faith in. So glad.

[RSchewe]

8. I noticed that too. He is practically saying: "Get out of the way I am...

taking over, chump." He sounds like he actually has a plan for FEMA and why it has failed.

[cynatnite]

9. Brown probably begged for advice

I can see it now:

Brown: Please, help! I don't know what to do! Please, help!

Then when Witt says he will, he breathed a sigh of relief.

[GeorgeBushytail]

10. "Let Adults Take Charge Again" - Great Dem campaign slogan

Help build Camp Katrina on The Mall!

50,000 Katrina survivors camped on Bush's doorstep. In the seat of government and power. Demanding answers and change.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4629758

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2059147

[fasttense]

11. I just can't believe they haven't set up a command and control

organization yet. What the F***. Are these people F***ing idiots. Do they have a F***ing clue??? Do they know anything about organization and control??? Are they leaders are just politicians? I really can't believe this. When are these F***ing morons going to be fired??? This can't keep going on.

[MissWaverly]

23. You don't understand the Bush credo is let the locals handle it

that's become the new mantra for FEMA, or make aid a faith based initiative, it's a goof ball theory, but what is reality based about this crew

[SeattleGirl]

31. Was saying the same thing to my husband today

He was saying if the states needed help they would of asked for it.

He said if the generals in the field in Iraq needed more soldiers, they would ask.

HEY, DUMMY, THEY DID ASK!!!!!! YOU JUST DIDN'T RESPOND, AS USUAL!

:mad:

[MissWaverly]

36. even the old feudal kings had castles and moats

to protect their citizens, they didn't say we used the money for the moat to go on a crusade, they built the moat, the home defense was the
thing.

[SpiralHawk]

32. Hell, you learn more about command and control as a volunteer

at your local fire department.

What a bunch of lame-ass Republican jokers.

[PA Democrat]

12. I agree blitzen.

You watch Bush take credit for the way things get turned around now that Witt has been hired by Blanco. Bush will not even mention Witt.

[cthrumatrix]

13. first thing -- tell America how Bush played poltics with lives

of the people in La.

[never_get_over_it]

14. Hmmmm makes me think maybe

they should send in the Clinton Administration person for everyone who screwed up in this mess - including Clinton himself - oh maybe they already have.... Are the freeper's heads exploding -

One of my co-workers once said to me that after 9-11 he was so glad that the freak in chief was in charge and not Clinton - I never understood that except he hated Clinton -

[liveoaktx]

15. That has to be burning *'s ass

[MadeinOhio]

19. It's going to be scolding it soon.....Fire Brown after Witt takes over.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Remember when experience use to count for something instead of

WHO you know? <sigh>

[pdxmom]

17. Someone has finally put the grown-ups be in charge. n/t

[mzmolly]

18. That's the impression I got also. This Goverment is devoid of leadership

PERIOD.

[OneGrassRoot]

20. Oh man, someone needs to play that up to the hilt...........

in a way, it's kind of like maybe dickwad kissed Blanco's ass so his dipshits could work with Witt and not look like such asshats!!!! He agreed he can't blame her and she agreed to let Witt be Brown's tutor!

[madaboutharry]

21. They must have cut a deal

Blanco plays nice so Witt can take over. "Brownie" gets shoved into the corner with a dunce capl

[Imagevision]

22. FINALLY! - COMPETANT QUALIFIED MANAGEMENT!

TOMORROW, DEWITT SHOULD TELL BROWN TO REMAIN SILENT AND MERELY OBSERVE...!

[Cocoa]

24. move over Rover and let Jimmy take over

You know what I'm talking about.

[Hand]

25. "The adults are in charge."

:evilgrin:
ON EDIT: Drat. Someone already beat me to it.

[complain jane]

26. HAH! The SUCCESSFUL PART of the rescue is CLINTON'S FAULT!!!

A Freeper's worst nightmare! I LOVE it!

"It's Clinton's faaaaauuuuuuult!"

[cami715]

27. Now if they would just replace dubya with Bill Clinton!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. When Witt finally gets things straightened out, just watch Brown and

Michael Jerkoff (and Busholini) take credit for it.

[glitch]

29. Let me get this straight - one week later and command control hasn't been

SET UP YET????!%#!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

30. Yup, shocking isn't it...

Witt said that is was vital that a C&C center be set up so all agencies can coordinate their movements and can track to make sure missions were not redone and had been completed.

I was also thrilled to hear him talk about the need to contact the National Historic Society to come in an evalute the buildings that should be saved.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I heard a competant, knowledgeable official "in charge".

[Peace Patriot]

33. I suspect that the Bush White House is in disarray over pending

Fitzgerald indictments. When the opportunity arose to loot FEMA funds, and to bring a big hunk of U.S. real esate under Bush Cartel control (the opportunity presented by the hurricane), they just didn't have their ducks in a row to do it smoothly. The P.R. was terrible--so bad (with Bush eating birthcake and all, while LA got flattened) that I started thinking somebody was actually doing Bush in (still think that's possible--a Cheney coup maybe). They had nobody but failures and crooks in charge, and they blew it. They tried to strongarm Blanco with a Fed takeover. She resisted and demanded, at the very least, competence. Thus, James Lee Witt (and Clinton at a press conference with Bush, seeming to back him up--one of the reasons I was thinking Cheney coup).

I don't know if all this will be good in the end (i.e., martial law, or whatever she may have agreed to, in compromise), but at least it restores order for the moment, which is what the victims need. Long term, it could mean that we will be ruled in the future by the U.S. military. (Honore was resisting any federalization of the Nat'l Guard. The lack of info on what they all agreed to is making me uneasy. Honore should be the one in charge; not a military general under Bush.) (Honore was saying the looting was minimal and NG's should not point their weapons at people--while Bushites played up and fomented chaos.)

The upshot (from what I gather) is that Bush delayed aid, to get his way on taking it all over--pressuring and bullying Blanco. Criminal behavior by Bush! All about greed. (Maybe his puppetmaster Cheney said, 'you get control of the loot in NO or else you go down with Libby and Rove,' so Bush was under great pressure--he looks like it--and they bought Cheney off by giving Halliburton the first contract, which will fatten his Halliburton "severance" package. Hm-m.) (But that doesn't solve his Fitzgerald problems.)

[Psyop Samurai]

35. Great analysis! n/t

[novak goes postal]

34. About time the "Grown-ups" took this disaster over. The Republicans

have really messed up and are trying to wiggle out of this boo boo...... It would make me feel good except I am sick with grief for the people who died such a horrible death because of the Republican boo boo's.... some of them it seems were on purpose because the Republicans don't consider the poor, old,gay, or disabled people. They are not useful for slave labor or Cannon fodder.