Brown is UNBELIEVABLE!!! CYA CYA CYA

[cantstandbush]

If FEMA had done such a great job in MS and AL why are so many people from there still complaining?

Even the FOX commenters are stunned by his performance.

Just blame mayor and Gov. of LA.

Ask the people in FL, MS (except for Haley Barbour), and AL if FEMA did all that they could have done in a timely fashion. Ask the people dealing with the aftermath of Rita if the evacuations were so great.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Why in the World did they do this?? Are they using Brown to

take the heat? Is it a payoff? What drives these guys?

[babylonsister]

3. I'm thinking Brown is their scapegoat, but they must have

promised him a whole lot to take all the heat he's fixin' to get. This is a huge mistake, and I suspect it will bite this admin in the ass.

[opihimoimoi]

22. This Dude talks himself into the pig shit....He was so lazy, he didn't

take the measures to LEARN THE FUCKING JOB....He didn't even read the plans...and if he did...did he understand them?

Is he like Bush? Don't Read/Learn, don't Listen, Solution Accruacy Rate...dismally low.....?

If these guys can reject Global Warming, despite mucho evidence, they can do anything....The Deviant Mutation if I may....,,,,,,,,

[Brewman_Jax]

2. Same on NPR this morning

the deputy director of FEMA was dancing as if his feet were on fire.

[5X]

5. But NPR reporters didn't bother to challenge him ...

on anything, just used him as another source.

[madokie]

10. Too sickening, had to change channels

Is it ok for me to borrow this. If not, a good rap on the nuckles will be in order.
This is the best yet.

[Brewman_Jax]

20. Go ahead and borrow the dancing banana

Enjoy!

[finecraft]

4. OK Brown - Answer this one question

How come, after a month after Katrina, we still don't have a FEMA office here in Iberia Parish? We have two shelters for Katrina victims here, close to 1400 people in all, along with over 4,000 evacuees living with local family members, and we STILL don't have a FEMA office here. FEMA signed a lease on a facility over 2 weeks ago, and they STILL are not occupying the building. We now have the entire town of Delcambre homeless due to the flooding from Rita, and there is no FEMA office to help them. Why?

It is obvious from your opening statement that as far as you are concerned it is not about the hurricane victims, it is all about you. You are mad because of the "unfair attacks on your reputation" by the press. Kiss my *%$ you jerk.

[cantstandbush]

6. You should send your questions to the Committee right now so that at break

a staffer can deliver the question to the members.

[finecraft]

7. I just called Congressman Melancon's office

and they told me to email Charlie my question so he can get it on his Blackberry. They are going to alert him that I'm sending in a question for that asshat Brown. :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. *lol*

[FlaGranny]

16. Also ask him about the Hurricane Charley

victims who are still waiting. That was a year ago. Many people from last year still living in FEMA travel trailers and now FEMA wants them back.

[AirAmFan]

8. "No disaster is perfect." --Brownie Quote of the Day

[underpants]

12. Even that isn't correct

[bluedawg12]

11. Fact of the matter remains that turdie

is a bloated maroon.

Why, why, why didn't he send help to the dome and con center for four days once the NOLA polic and fire were decimated and with out command and control because communications were knocked out and the roads were flooded.

FEMA doesn't have buses and fire enigines.

Ans NOLA doesn't have helicopters and amphibious vehicles.

[babylonsister]

13. I have wondered why air drops of water and food weren't made?

This is done all over the world; why were they not prepared for this eventuality?

[bluedawg12]

15. They said there were snipers. But, that's BS, they

could have secured the region with the 82 nd AirBorn for example. Nixon activated them with in48 hours back in the 60's after a hurricane.

We could subdue Fallujah- we could subdue the few criminals in the superdome. 99% of the peple in the dome were hostages not a mob.

[Fleshdancer]

14. He's acting as if FEMA has never dealt with a hurricane before

He blames everything on the local government for the evacuation efforts (even though they evacuated 80% in a short amount of time) but what scares me is that we're now focusing on FEMA's failure as if every emergency will be known before it occurs. What happens when there is no warning like in a terrorist attack?

[babylonsister]

17. I think Dept of Homeland Security should be just as

culpable as FEMA, and both names should be used interchangeably when discussing their negligence.

[liveoaktx]

18. VIDEO-Brownie's Opening Statement

Vid by Date

[AirAmFan]

19. Notice any pattern in the party affiliations of the questioners?

Except for William Jefferson (D-NOLA) and perhaps a Dems or two from MS or AL, all the questioners are Republicans. This is a sham. When Brown told Shays he'd asked the WH for help and did not get it, and when he told another Rethug his budget request for catastrophic relief capacity had been zeroed out, no one pounced. They would have been pouncing on themselves!

Pelosi and the NY Times are right--only an independent commission can thoroughly investigate a WH that controls both houses of Congress.

From http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/09-05/09-22-05/a02wn230.htm :

House GOP moves ahead on Katrina response probe

By AMY GOLDSTEIN, The Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Wednesday named 11 GOP lawmakers to the remnants of what Congress's Republican leaders originally had intended as a bipartisan investigation, conducted jointly by both halves of Congress, into flaws in the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. With Democrats boycotting the probe and the leader of Senate's Republicans acquiescing to their complaints by not appointing any members, the select commitee is scheduled to begin work Thursday as a creation solely of House Republicans.

The committee's chairman, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., said that the panel plans Tuesday to question Michael Brown... The members are an eclectic group, including lawmakers with oversight responsibility, expertise in appropriations, responsibility for overseeing FEMA, and close relationships with the House GOP leadership. They range from Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., a moderate to Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., known for his strong style. One of the 11, Rep. Charles W. "Chip" Pickering, R-Miss., come from any of the three states devasted by the storm.

House and Senate Democrats swiftly derided the idea, saying that a GOP-led Congress could not be trusted to carry out a thorough investigation of mistakes by a Republican administration. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday renewed the Democrat's calls for an independent commission, similar to the one that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks -- a proposal that polls suggest most of the public supports. "The speaker is not listening to the American people," she said. "They do not want a partisan whitewash of what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ... I will not appoint any Democrats to participate in this sham."

Davis said, "This isn't some partisan cover-up." He dispatched letters to three House Democrats from affected states who have signaled that they may be willing to participate; one of them, Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., plans to attend Thursday, an aide said. And Davis urged the Senate to collaborate. A separate investigation into Katrina has been started by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, whose chairman, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has said she would be reluctant to coordinate with the House select committee unless it is bipartisan. Meanwhile, President Bush has announced that his homeland security adviser, Fran Townsend, will direct an internal investigation into the federal response to Katrina, as well as coordinate the administration's response to Hurricane Rita. Davis said the House investigation would proceed, with or without Democrats."

[MissMarple]

21. Who was the creepy guy over Brown's right shoulder?

An enforcer? :shrug:

[Sydnie]

23. I have been asking that question all day

still don't know the answer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Welcome to DU

and yes he was on CYA mode, what did you expect from a cronie in this culture of corruption?