OMFG!!!! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNEW BROWNIE RESIGNED BEFORE THE PRESIDENT!!!

[Walt Starr]

That just CRACKS ME UP!!!

Bush found out when questioned about his resignation.

THE MAN HAS NO CLUE WHATSOEVER!!! HE IS NOT IN CHARGE!!!

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Somebody! Give that man a TV!!!!!!!!

[SodoffBush]

15. That's how his handlers kept him away from bad press for so long

Now he HAS to pay attention, since he's f*cked up too badly to ignore his inaction.

How will his ego handle the fallout? It won't be pretty, is my guess.

[chicagiana]

32. Difference in management styles ...

The previous White House was organized to funnel information to the top. It was the style of a working President who wanted to know what his secretaries were doing and oversee that work. Bill Clinton organized his administration.

The current White House is organized to shield the President from as much information as possible. It an org chart for a "gentleman prince". Bush's schedule is organized to allow him as much liesure as possible while leaving the messy details to people of less noble disposition.

[SodoffBush]

40. That style has cost the US a city

Bush knows he will go down as the worst president in history. I think his handlers had told him he was a beloved genius. Now he knows they're full of shit.

[The Backlash Cometh]

66. Bush is proof that you can't run government the way you run a private corp

[Thtwudbeme]

2. ANY American watching TV 4 years ago knew that there was a problem

before that stupid jackass did.

You also knew that there was going to be a problem in NO about ummmmmmm 3 FUCKING DAYS before he did.

[KoKo]

38. What happened? How did he react...Can someone give a snip of info?

[SW FL Dem]

3. I saw it too!

He had no clue. He was just showing up for the latest photo op and was totally unprepared for the question.

[Carla in Ca]

60. "Hey, media, you're doin' a heck of a job!"

n/t

[Dr.Phool]

4. Well, Cheney fired Paul O'Neill too.

The first time in history that a cabinet member was fired by the Vice-president.

[chicagiana]

33. Not Vice-President ...

Lord Regent ...

[SodoffBush]

5. The Chimpster is pouting, so won't "play"

He was finally forced to get rid of one of his boy-toys. I hope he doesn't take it out on Laura.

[texpatriot2004]

6. "I don't think anyone anticipated that I am a fucking moron." n/t

[OhioChick]

7. Imagine that..........

He also wasn't aware of the hurricane being as bad as it was, either.

[elperromagico]

8. Shall we have a list of things we knew about before Bush did?

This is hardly the first time Bush didn't know what was going on.

[expatriot]

9. video clip please! I need to see this before I go to work!

[triguy46]

10. Lets start a list of all the things the people know before *

here's #1: There were no WMDs.

[never_get_over_it]

24. Sorry he knew there were no WMDs eom

[noahmijo]

51. The eath is round NOT flat

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. The only thing that would have made if funnier would have been if he...

... asked the reporter if he knew why.

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. Just saw this on Yahoo!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20050912/pl_nm/brown_dc_5

How incredibly pitiful. Chimpy's just clueless.

[Guaranteed]

13. LOL- maybe a little final "FUCK YOU" from Brownie himself?

Maybe he leaked it to the media before he signed it to the Chimp.

[blondeatlast]

27. Oooh, ya think? The only way Brownie can save his ass now is to

write a tell-all book.

Seriously, who wants it known that they hired him?

[LSK]

31. are you kidding? He'll get a show on FOXNEWS in 1 month n/t

[blondeatlast]

39. Aaaah, right you are. I've Bushed (as in avoided thinking about it)

that place so long I almost forgot it existed.

[DoYouEverWonder]

42. I think Brown is going to be telling it all

on the witness stand.

[MADem]

53. No, because they've already chosen a replacement

Guess they forgot to tell monkeyboy about that, too!

[Peace Patriot]

14. I agree--Bush is a puppet. Could we have a link on this Browne item? n/t

[wurzel]

16. So what else is new?

[ClusterFreak]

self delete

[ClusterFreak]

17. Dumbya's gonna get on the horn with Uncle Dick

and do some serious whining about this! Why didn't you tell me you fired Brownie, Uncle Dick?? Made me look like....you know....fool me once.....uh....uh...don't get fooled again! The press asked me what I thought of his resignation, and I had to tell them they probably knew more than me!

:rofl:

[marbuc]

18. So what's new?

Is anyone still operating under the illusion that our President is actually in the loop? The "adults" probably told him to go outside and play (Louisiana).

[triguy46]

19. "Brownie who??" n/t

[never_get_over_it]

20. You know actually

the freak in chief should fire his entire administration and then just resign himself - this administration is a fucking joke -I guess nobody wanted to deliver the bad news that Brownie threw in the towel

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Ok the masks are off, george is not in charge

it is official... by the way start a call up for the 25th ammendment, impeachemtn or plain out resignation

[DinahMoeHum]

22. Tee hee!! Bush was an assclown re 9/11 and he's still an assclown

4 years later re Katrina.

:rofl:

[trof]

23. Well, nobody likes to give him upsetting news, don'tcha know.

"You tell him."
"No way, man. I ain't telling him."
"Well, get Condi to tell him. He likes her."
"She's locked in the ladies room with her cellphone turned off."
"How about Karl?"
"Um..says he's had a reoccurance of the kidney stones. Can't talk to anybody."
"Has the president had lunch yet?
"Not that I know of."
"Good. Put a note on his tray. Let the waiter deliver it."

[berni_mccoy]

25. At first, I TOTALLY DID NOT BELIEVE THIS, but then I read

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20050912/pl_nm/brown_dc_5

During a visit to Gulfport, Mississippi, Bush was asked about Brown's resignation. He told reporters he had not talked to Brown or to Chertoff but said he would speak with the Homeland Security chief on the Air Force One flight back to Washington.

OMG is RIGHT!!! WTF is going on WITH OUR GOV'T?!??!?!?!?!? :wtf:

[jayfish]

37. If Bush Is This Far Out Of The Loop During The Biggest Natural Calamity...

in American history. Who the fuck was running the country while he was on his "working" vacation and the Western White House?

Jay

[faithnotgreed]

26. it was ever thus

[understandinglife]

28. OUT OF CONTROL -- Can you broadcast that to Osama any louder, Georgie boy

Demand that Bush and Cheney resign immediately.


Peace.

[ComerPerro]

29. Disturbing, isn't it?

There is still a group of people out there who are ok with this.

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Yeah. but no surprise there. It's his M.O.

------------------------------------------------------
URGENT yet easy! Hold the government accountable for Katrina's aftermath
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4736062

[lonestarnot]

34. maybe this is why...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4746557&mesg_id=4746557

[Imagevision]

35. America knew about 9-11 before Chimp did also...

[Garbo 2004]

36. He snoozed through his morning briefing "Michael Brown determined to

resign today."

Brown is a sacrificial lamb shoved out for PR purposes. Odd that apparently no one informed Bush, though. Another example of Bush's "strong leadership."

[slor]

64. LOL!

That was a good one!

[David Zephyr]

41. He knew. This is staged to make it look like he wasn't booted, but quit.

Rovian.

[Poll_Blind]

44. Holy crap, very interesting.... n/t

PB

[slor]

43. Please post a video! n/t

[Liberal_Dog]

45. What's So New About That?

According to the "official story" of 9-11, millions of Americans found out it was a terrorist attack at 9:03 AM when they saw it on live TV. Somehow, Bu$h didn't know it was a terrorist attack until 9:05 AM.

[neuvocat]

46. Same thing with the LA superdome.

Bush didn't know people were in there until four days after the hurricane hit.

[RamboLiberal]

47. Memo to White House - Take the V-Chip out of Chimpy's TV

Let Bunnypants hear what the world really thinks of him!

[Wizard777]

48. I don't know how this is possible. But....

Brown said he talked to Bush and Bush said he hadn't talked to Brown. The only thing I'm fairly certain of that their BOTH lying through their teeth. As always, I don't exactly know how they are lying about that. I'm just certain that if there is any way possible for both of them to lie about that. They will figure it out and do it.

[Holly_Hobby]

49. BRRRRRRNNNNNNNG

Hello?

Mr. President, it's the clue phone for you.

[muriel_volestrangler]

50. Supremely appropriate, I'd say

given that the people knew about the chaos in New Orleans before either of them.

[Peace Patriot]

52. Just read the yahoo link above...

At end of this article, which is entitled, "FEMA chief Brown resigns in wake of Katrina," the following paragraph appears:

"During a visit to Gulfport, Mississippi, Bush was asked about Brown's resignation. He told reporters he had not talked to Brown or to Chertoff but said he would speak with the Homeland Security chief on the Air Force One flight back to Washington."

Is that a polite way to put it, or what? Bush doesn't have a clue.

At least that's what it looks like, and, given what we know about Bush, that is easy to believe.

In normal times, this would have been I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E., that the president didn't know--or appeared not to know--that the head of a major agency had resigned (let alone in the midst of a disaster).

And I don't know what's scarier--that Bush didn't know, or that he pretended not to know because he is not mentally capable of answering questions about it.

The third possibility--that Bush is a shrewd criminal, and just didn't want to be questioned, so he ducked the issue by lying, I have come increasingly to dismiss, of late.

The "eating cake" photo op--while a large chunk of the U.S. was getting blown off the map, and thousands of Americans were dying--indicated to me that Bush's handlers had abandoned him for some reason (at least temporarily), and that he really is a dimwit--stupid, talentless, no leadership abilities whatsoever, not even those of a fascist egotist, and is excessively cretin-like (crude, boorish, limited intelligence) in his raw uncensored form (unspun, unmanaged).

Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake" comes to mind. It's almost as if someone were actually sabotaging him. How could his handlers have let that occur on camera? I suspected McCain for a moment, but then I started getting what I now think was really going on. McCain, I think, just does what Bush Cartel operatives tell him to do. Don't know why--he seemed to have powers of discernment at one time. But, anyway, putting two and ten together...

--the pending Treasongate indictments (Rove is an obvious target; also Libby; and Cheney may be vulnerable);
--that odd photo op with Daddy Bush and Clinton standing behind Bush Jr. as the man-made part of the disaster unfolded;
--FEMA's inexplicable obstruction of offered aid (not to mention failure to provide aid);
--reports of Bush's private meeting with Gov. Blanco (trying to strongarm her into handing over the keys to Louisiana, and withholding aid until she agreed--in short, extortion);
--Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice (all the key players) AWOL, or seemingly so;
--and the P.R. just getting worse and worse, 4 to 5 days, with Bush hanging out there all by himself, with no spin machine in sight...

I concluded:

1) Rove had just negotiated his presidential pardon for Treasongate (withheld his spin machine services--his programming of Bush, strict management of his appearances, enforcing "talking points" on lapdog press, etc--and left Bush without his normal support system in the midst of Katrina, until he got a pardon guarantee);

2) Cheney has the goods on Bush, re Treasongate--can rat him out--and used this to try to get total control (martial law, federalization) of Louisiana, all the better to eat all those aid funds coming from Congress and numerous generous countries, with maybe visions of a high security enclave for the rich in New Orleans, near the country's last oil reserves. He was "gone fishing" in Wyoming, so they said, and seemed utterly oblivious of the worst natural disaster in U.S history, until Halliburton got the first contract, then slithered out of his snakehole and did a photo op. But I don't think he was oblivious, at all. I think he is THE responsible party. And the price of his continuing to protect Bush from Treasongate was that Bush had to force Blanco to turn entire control over to the White House, which had just, by its inaction, destroyed her state and killed thousands of her people.

3. Other Treasongate pardons--and pardons for other things, and bought silences--were probably also being negotiated. Bush was notably without support for nearly the whole week (except for Daddy Bush and Clinton). Rice? Shopping in NYC, buying thousand dollar shoes. Rumsfeld? At a Padres game, and busy ordering the obliteration of an Iraqi village on the Syrian border. Libby? Dunno.

4. Bush is a selfish, cruel, mean little man, and also stupid and clueless, easily manipulated and blackmailed; ripe ground for the worst financial predators in our history to PLAN disasters like Katrina, with an 80% cut of FEMA funding for Louisiana and installation of a lamebrain like Browne, and positively CREATING chaos--as in Iraq--as opportunities for massive looting.

5. The White House is in serious disarray--although the above negotiations may have settled things down a bit. (Spin machine back up and running.) It's divided between the indictable and the unindictable, and possibly also between pro-Bush vs. pro-Cheney factions (and a lot of "party of one" factions).

6. The war profiteers and the disaster profiteers are cleaning our clocks, one last time, and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it, because...

Two Bushite electronic voting machine companies now control the tabulation of our votes, with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our elected secretaries of state have the right to review it. Our elections have become completely non-transparent and unverifiable, as of 2004. Neither Bush/Cheney, nor much of Congress, has been legitimately elected. That is WHY they so clearly are not representing the interests or opinions of the majority of Americans. They don't have to any more.

But...we still have an opportunity to get back our right to vote, and that is what we must do. That is the mechanism of power of the American people--the only way we can exercise our sovereignty directly. We MUST get it back. There can be no other reform without it. Without it, our leaders have NO REASON to listen to us.

The power over election systems still resides in the state/local jurisdictions, where ordinary people still have potential influence. There is A LOT OF corruption--bipartisan--in the new electronic voting boondoggle, but these state/local venues are still our best chance of reform. (Bush's Congress is of course in favor of our corrupt election system, and funded it with $4 billion of our taxpayer dollars--no hope there).

So, here's the program. Join your local election reform group--or form your own--and start demanding transparent, verifiable elections locally. The 'meme': Throw these election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' now! (--or a Louisiana levee might do).

We need:

Paper ballots hand-counted at the precinct level (--Canada does it in one day, although speed should not even be a consideration, just accuracy and verifiability)

or, at the least

Paper ballot (not "paper trail") backup of all electronic voting, a 10% automatic recount, very strict security, and NO SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code! (...jeez!).

[Dora]

63. Awesome post!!!

:applause:

[SoCalDem]

54. His cell phone was on vibrate??

:)

[indepat]

55. Maybe Brownie will spill his guts about the reported $31 million

FEMA payments in Florida to non-victims of hurricanes purportedly to buy votes in the 2004 election.

[Nothing Without Hope]

56. I think Bush is lyng here, playing a set scene. He wouldn't want

to be seen as going back on his earlier pronouncements on how Brownie is doing a heck of a job and, as he told Pelosi when she asked if he would ask Brown to resgn, "Why would I do that?" See, if Brown "quits" on his own without Bush even knowing about it, that would show Bush didn't go back on what he said about forcing Brown's resignation, right?

I think Bush knew and this is the way he is pretending to have nothing to do with the forced resignation.

[niallmac]

57. I guess Chertof was Brownies boss not POTUS

Another layer of bureaucracy and the prez be he/she dimwit or capable is not directly responsible to people like the Director of FEMA. Now this enigma named Chertof is in charge. More reasons I do not sleep as well as I should.

[Alizaryn]

58. What I don't get is ....

1.)They announce Brown resigned and that Bush had appointed so and so to replace him.

2.) They ask Bush about it and he pleads ignorance.

How did he appoint someone to a position he didn't know was vacant?
What am I missing?

[in_cog_ni_to]

59. Earth to Idiot...Ever hear of Cell phones? Walkie Talkies? Two-Way radios?

Of course you haven't because you're a damn IDIOT and OTHER people are running your show..

[natrat]

61. bush has nothing to do with it

he's a fucking front man for a crime syndicate, seriously. He's an actor in the pr wing of bushco. Why place any stock in anything he does or says.

[struggle4progress]

62. The poor fellow is a halfwit whose brain was damaged by booze and ..

.. coke. He has a sort of sneaky nastiness that passes for cleverness in far rightwing circles. The corporate crowd supported him because they could control him.

[wryter2000]

65. Good Lord

At least, this one's funny.

Earth to Bush...It's Tuesday, you fucking moron. You got your calendar? Got your watch? Good, now go back to sleep.