CNN Just in - on air - Brown to oversee Big Picture Vice Adml Allen

[xultar]

to oversee ops on the ground.

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Well, Brown has great vision

He dreamed up a whole bunch a shit about his past!

[barbaraann]

2. Kicked upstairs.

n/t

[WI_DEM]

3. Oh, I see--Brown will oversee the "big picture"

I thought that was his job to begin with?

[MSgt213]

4. Is this the end of Brown?

[xultar]

5. I doubt it.

[Just Me]

12. Nope. They're covering his ass,...and theirs.

Taking him out of the spotlight.

[Imagevision]

26. They're covering his ass? --> EXACTLY!!!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[htuttle]

16. No, but now he gets a paycheck and doesn't actually have to work

...or even appear to work, as he had been trying to do (unsuccessfully) before.

[Spazito]

6. Bio of Vice Adm Thad Allen

http://www.rh.edu/news/news03/commencement03/vadmbio.html

[warrens]

7. Failing upwards

That's the Bush way. They used to call this the Peter Principle, rising to your level of incompetence. But these guys start out incompetent and somehow they keep rising.

[Cleita]

9. Shit that floats in the toilet I guess.

I think it's time for us to flush.

[lpbk2713]

8. Just like corporate Amurka ......

They kicked his useless ass upstairs.


The repub way of doing things.

[The Night Owl]

10. So, basically, Brown is being given more prestige and less work.

:grr:

[woodsprite]

11. Does that mean Brown just got a promotion? n/t

[Cleita]

15. That means he got the corner office with nothing to do.

They probably had to baby proof the electrical outlets too in case he might stick his fingers in them.

[Horse with no Name]

13. I knew it was too good to be true

firing Brown for having a bogus resume--that passed clearance btw--and admitting he failed in NO is another Bush failure.
We had to be nuts to think Bush would admit to ANY failure.

[LibertyLou]

14. Fuck Up, Move Up...Kiss Up, Kick Down

[me b zola]

17. just sweeping what they can under the rug

Bob Franken just said that bush*inc is trying to make Brownie less visable, but people are not going to let go of it :)

[Kolesar]

18. Kind of stupid--should have fired him

It would look better. Now bush*s opponents still have Brownie to kick around.

[OhioChick]

19. Amazing, isn't it?

I hope the media pursues this further.

[leesa]

20. So he's been promoted?

[xultar]

21. EXACTLY! That is what I thought. He's still the FEMA head perhaps

with additional responsibilities and the guy replacing him works for him now.

[Pithy Cherub]

22. Bush loves the heavy albatrosses he keeps hanging around his

really red neck. :eyes:

[demo dutch]

24. God forbid, he would actually fire someone!

[alcibiades_mystery]

23. If he can't run the operation on the ground

What makes them think he can handle the big picture stuff?

Moreover, if he continues on as head of FEMA, are any of us safe when the next disaster hits?

Bizarre and irrational move, Bushie.

Everyone else: KEEP PUSHING!!! Call your Congresspeople - get Brown out. Lives depend on it!!!

[Imagevision]

25. Only in the Bush administration, if you fail, you're promoted, like Condi.

http://downingstreetmemo.com/