Today Show: "Brownie" padded his resume

[WI_DEM]

Just watching "Today" and they are reporting that TIME magazine is going to have a story that Brown padded his experience in Emergency management--that in effect he was an assistant and actually a better term is "intern"!! And also, that the other top officials at FEMA are nothing more than political appointments and cronies of Bush.

No doubt, Brownie is going to go

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. The sad thing is, I have SIGNFICANT DOUBT that he is going to go.

[skooooo]

5. If I were him...

...I'd want to get out of this mess. It's just going to get uglier on a number of fronts.

[Iris]

8. Why not? I'm sure he'd rather "spend more time with his family" right now

then do what he is doing.

[skooooo]

2. Next time I hear about the poor getting "handouts"

[Debau2005]

3. Oh, it gets better!

Turns out that perhaps the top 5 FEMA officials were not qualified.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9261552/

[Botany]

18. Holy crap!

A t.v. reporter, a lobbyist, a Lt. Governor, and a political advance man.

all bush cronies .....

This needs it own thread!

[Danmel]

4. He'll get a Medal

You think they're gonna fire him? I think they'll have a ceremony- he and Chertoff will get medals. They make no mistakes.

[malaise]

6. CNN carrying that as well

They are shameless. The people in charge of such a critical agency must be trained in disaster management. What makes it worse is that many other persons below Brown are just as unqualified. This is political cronyism laid bare.

The person being interviewed in CNN made the point about Bush sharing out political spoils by giving unqualified people these positions.
Everything we knew about these goons is now public knowledge. They will not get away this time.
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[Freedomfried]

7. I think this will become very big news

Freedomfried thinks this is going to lead into something big...

[dusty64]

21. Yeah kinda like

them cutting emergency communication lines. Sorry for my pessimism, but there doesn't seem to be ANY crime that these evil bastards are EVER accountable for.

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. CNN International has mentioned this each hour since the story broke

[Iris]

10. Did you see Scarborough on after that?

Blaming EVERYONE? Bush and Co. and local and state officials. AND making the assertion that most Americans will soon forget about this until the next big hurricane happens next year?

[bigbrother05]

20. I will never forget

Just give them some food and water.

[cami715]

11. CBS Early Show also reports

that Time magazine is saying that not only did he not have experience in emergency management, but his resume notes that he was a professor at a college. In reality, he was only a student at the college. Crooks and liars.
This means that when he was appointed by *, his resume and work history apparently were not checked. Seems they failed to do this before - the Bernie guy who was first selected for Homeland Security.

[bigbrother05]

12. Good to hear the media

is staying on top of things, the only american news I get full time is Faux, and they said the Time interview was wrong, it was misinterpreted. Yeah right

[Iris]

14. and this is supposed to be the "security president"

Jeez.

[Bonhomme Richard]

13. The administration knew damn well about his background.

I'm sure when he said he had no real experience thay told him "Brownie don't worry about it. None of us know what we are doing. Jesus, look at bush. He doesn't have a clue."

[liberal N proud]

15. That will be the scape goat

Get rid of the FEMA Dir, the all will be well.

We must not let the bu$h regime get away with such a small price, too large of a price has already been payed

[nonconformist]

16. What is funny is his padded resume was SHITTY TOO!

I think that speaks VOLUMES.

Bush appointed his sorry ass and needs to be held accountable. Bush still thinks Brownie's doin' a heck of a job!

[Spazito]

17. Here is the link to the Time article

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1103003,00.html

My only question is: Did Time do this in spite of the bush admin or for them?

[bribri16]

19. We need to stop focusing on this shit and focus on the wage cut!

The media loves this stuff that in the long run won't affect people's lives who were displaced by Katria. But we need to hold their feet to the fire about Halliburton contracts for cleaning up Katrina mess the President's Executive Order eliminating the need to pay minimum wages to workers in the storm ravaged areas.