While they were dying in NO; Bush, Lott Other leaders more concerned

[Jon8503]

about PR or their own selves it appears to me: If Bush cared, he should have fired Brown himself & sent him packing, what the hell does it take; the guy let many people die thru his incompetence. These people are unbelievable.

Mr. Bush, characteristically, did not officially dismiss Mr. Brown, instead calling him back to Washington to run FEMA while a crisis-tested Coast Guard commander, Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, was given oversight of the relief effort. The take-charge Admiral Allen, who commanded the Coast Guard's response up and down the Atlantic Seaboard after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, immediately appeared on television as the public face of the administration's response.


For a time, Mr. Lott did not directly criticize Mr. Brown or the federal response in public. "My mama didn't raise no idiot," he joked on Capitol Hill last week. "I ain't going to bite the hand that's trying to save me."

One prominent African-American supporter of Mr. Bush who is close to Karl Rove, the White House political chief, said the president did not go into the heart of New Orleans and meet with black victims on his first trip there, last Friday, because he knew that White House officials were "scared to death" of the reaction.

"If I'm Karl, do I want the visual of black people hollering at the president as if we're living in Rwanda?" said the supporter, who spoke only anonymously because he did not want to antagonize Mr. Rove.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/national/nationalspecial/10crisis.html?hp&ex=1126411200&en=5e194c087578e640&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Chertoff said Brown needed to go back to DC

in case we have another hurricane or national emergency. All I could think was, God help us all.

[shaniqua6392]

2. Why wasn't he fired????

What about the next disaster? The media is focusing on his "removal" and is not focusing on the fact that shrub did not fire this loser. He is still in charge of FEMA and if we have another disaster, God forbid, he is still incompetent and people will suffer. Americans should be calling for his resignation and hold shrub completely responsible for choosing this unqualified person for such a high level position.

[Garbo 2004]

3. Wow. Rwanda? A visual I recall of Rwanda was dead black folks floating

in a river. A scene of genocide. Does a black Bush supporter really want to mention Rwanda??? After what we saw in NOLA???

[malaise]

5. I heard one of the victims

shouting welcome to hotel Rwanda. Bush can run be he cannot hide. This is his legacy.

[DemonFighterLives]

4. Oooooh, can't wait to sit on Trenty's new porch

Dubby and Trent are the new face of porch monkeys for our nation.
Chertoff almost looked intelligent in moving Brownie until he couched his actions with the reason that brownie was needed to ensure other failures.
Can't dubby just get rid of at least one bad apple and send him back to the horse pasture.
:argh:

[annabanana]

7. "porch monkeys"?.. . . . lol.....(eom)

[DemonFighterLives]

8. I can see it

They was raised po whities and held down by the black man.
damn racist slimeballs can sit around and drink all the koolaid they want. We are onto them.
;)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. heck, they were more concerned about making tax breaks perm.

Deep down inside, they realize that people are catching on to their lies, so they have to rush through their program NOW before the sands of time run down and bury them up to theirr nexts.