Bush can't fire "Brownie" because "Brownie" knows Too Much...

[KoKo]

How FEMA delivered Florida for Bush

In 2004, George W. Bush and FEMA left little room for error. Not long after Hurricane Charley first made landfall on Aug. 13, Bush declared the state a federal disaster area to release federal relief funds. Less than two days after Charley ripped through southwestern Florida, he was on the ground touring hard-hit neighborhoods.

Bush later made a handful of other Florida visits to review storm-related damage, but the story on the ground was not Bush's hand-holding. Rather, it was FEMA's performance.

Charley hit on a Friday. With emergency supply trucks pre-positioned at depots for rapid, post-storm deployment, the agency was able to deliver seven truckloads of ice, water, cots, blankets, baby food and building supplies by Sunday. On Monday, hundreds of federal housing inspectors were on the ground, and FEMA already had opened its first one-stop disaster relief center.

By the end of September, three hurricanes later, the agency had processed 646,984 registrations for assistance with the help of phone lines operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Fifty-five shelters, 31 disaster recovery centers and six medical teams were in operation across the state. Federal and state assistance to households reached more than $361 million, nearly 300,000 housing inspections were completed, and roughly 150,000 waterproof tarps were provided for homeowners, according to FEMA figures.

It's impossible to know just how much of an effect FEMA had on the Florida vote. Many of the citizens the agency served there presumably had more important things to worry about. It's also hard to imagine that, even with its shock-and-awe hurricane response, a bureaucracy like FEMA pleased all its customers. Even so, in a closely contested state where hundreds of thousands of voters suffered storm-related losses, it's equally hard to imagine that they didn't notice the agency's outreach.

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1104/110304cm1.htm

It's not that Junior is refusing to fire Brownie out of loyalty. It's that he can't fire Brownie --- he knows too much. (Digby)

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Of course

It's also why Bush doesn't fire Karl Rove. Oh and that Rove is Bush's brain.

[highplainsdem]

2. I've been wondering about this too. At IAHA, the horse association

that employed Brownie for so many years, he was busy soliciting funds for his personal legal defense fund at the same time he was telling IAHA officials he was soliting funds for them. You can bet he's squirreled away enough details about what the Bushies have been doing to drag them down with him, if he feels he's been treated too badly by them.

[blonndee]

3. Anybody else think Brownie might be suicided? n/t

[opihimoimoi]

4. Yup, many think this thought

[Double T]

5. bush doesn't fire ANYBODY because they ALL know too much.......

bush wants to keep things 'nice' so there are no disgruntled loose ends running around telling truths to the media.

[ochazuke]

6. That fits in with a larger view

There is a social compact in "bush world", an unspoken rule. The deal is "never admit error by anyone in The Organization, and in return you are protected by The Organization."

The Organization is the bush administration and their supporting entities in government and the republican party. Surrounding it is a Cult that sees itself under siege even though they are on the verge of establishing a fascist state in America.

What would have happened if bush had said "Rove, you're outta here", or "Brownie, you're history"? Everyone else in the Organization, being either criminal or incompetent (or both), would fear that they would be called to account as well. I wonder if the whole thing might not just unravel in an explosion of whistle blowing and ship-jumping.

[Double T]

10. I can hear the 'Godfather theme song' playing in the background......

Brownie doesn't want to find an Arabian Horse's head in his bed courtesy of 'The Don' bush-leone.

[Cleita]

7. That's why he can't fire any of the incompetent gouls he

surrounds himself with, Rummy and Condi included. They know too much.

[lateo]

8. No but Brownie knows that...

he will get fitted for cement boots if he doesn't play along.

[Kurovski]

9. "Thick as thieves."

I've little doubt that loyalty is heavily enforced at BushCo headquarters.

[catzies]

12. Yes, * was Poppy's enforcer during the '92 campaign. Remember his

outburst to Al Hunt & Judy Woodruff in a restaurant, interrupting their quiet family dinner?

President Bush also has a patterned history of irritability and aggression, which includes his 1988 public threat and verbal assault on Wall Street Journal's bureau chief, Al Hunt, after Mr. Hunt predicted a 1988 GOP failure for his father. According to the Washington Post (7/25/99), Mr. Bush cursed at Mr. Hunt in a restaurant, in front of his wife and four-year-old son: "You f-cking son of a bitch! I saw what you wrote! We're not going to forget this."

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/submissions/submit0010.htm

[applegrove]

11. Yup. He will get a medal. And the sociopaths will continue to laugh

at how they have diminished America.

[Theduckno2]

13. It's easier to keep Brown on as opposed to forcing a resignation.

Look at all the facts that were laid bare in former Treasury Sec'y Paul O'Neill's tell-all book. Bushco made itself dizzy trying to spin its way out of that! No, my guess they'll try to muddle their way along and Brown will leave quietly, for reasons other than Katrina, with the announcement coming in a "Friday news dump".