Why did Bush hire a horse show failure for head of FEMA?

[montana500]

Can any explain this to me?



http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=100857


Brown pushed from last job: Horse group: FEMA chief had to be `asked to resign'
By Brett Arends
Saturday, September 3, 2005 - Updated: 02:01 PM EST

The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.

And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.

The Oklahoman got the job through an old college friend who at the time was heading up FEMA.

The agency, run by Brown since 2003, is now at the center of a growing fury over the handling of the New Orleans disaster.

[tridim]

1. Because he was a "Bush Pioneer"

and part of the BFEE.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Good Old Boys Club

[jasmeel]

3. Because they're BFF.

[acmejack]

4. I think he was a school buddy from Yale.

[Tace]

5. Signing Deal With The Devil Is Job Requirement

They had to dig deep to find someone willing to ink the deal.

[punpirate]

6. Cronyism...

Joe Allbaugh was Bush's chief of staff when he was governor and Bush's 2000 campaign manager, and Bush made him head of FEMA. Allbaugh made Brown general counsel for FEMA. When Allbaugh left to cash in as a consultant for businesses wanting to do business in Iraq, Brown became head of FEMA.

Just yer average Republican way of doin' gummint bidness.

[Mabus]

7. George needed easy access to "milking" stallions

Maybe Laura's "joke" about * milking stallions needs to be looked into

The joke: Laura Bush's wisecrack about her naive husband accidentally milking a male horse:

"George didn't know much about ranches when we bought the place. ... But I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse." source: http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/001720.php

[TomInTib]

8. To fine-tune *'s "horse-milking" skills n/t

[NMDemDist2]

21. ROFL, funny n/t

[MindPilot]

9. Because there are no competent people with Rs after their name

[MichiganVote]

10. Because he's a fucker that's why

[kenny blankenship]

11. i think you will find large contributions made by Brown (following his pal

Allbaugh who preceded him at FEMA and who also knew nothing about disaster management)
Bush politicized this whole disaster when he doled out the executive direction of FEMA to a political crony with no experience or relevant credentials. Allbaugh said FEMA was an overgrown entitlement program upon receiving his appointment and was tasked with privatizing and downsizing the agency. Brown was his assistant director and came in on the same wave of cronyism.

I think it will be shown that their "qualifications" for office amount to contributions to the Republican Party and the Bush campaign.

[despairing optimist]

12. Money. Loyalty. You want competence and reason-based planning?

Whaddya kiddin' me? To the Bush people, money is its own reason and loyalty no matter what the facts is the sole test for any appointment. If this social hierarchy sounds simian, well, they don't call him Chimpy for nothing.

[mnhtnbb]

13. To raid FEMA funds for Jebbie's friends in FL

Check this out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4603522&mesg_id=4603522

[mnhtnbb]

15. Follow the money

[kodi]

14. unlike democrats, republicans put ideology before competence.

throughout the breadth and width of the bushevik regime, they have consciously decided to appoint their political commissars in positions of management authority in the federal government to direct the normal functions of government to partisan purposes.

[applegrove]

16. This is a pattern of putting Function-nots into high level government

positions so they will be no "intellectual match" for corporations. Or so that they will diminish the institution they are in.

Bolton at the UN, Wolfie at WB, on and on it goes.

[Skittles]

17. same reason he hires all the incompetents he has hired

because they suck republican ass, no questions asked

[GoBlue]

18. It's late in the game to be asking such elementary questions!

[chartresbleu]

19. and yet when nominations are held up they go nuclear....

we need to spread the idea that this is the very reason democrats have been trying to stop some of the idiot appointments bush has made. they were clearly nominated for postions purely for partisan and ideological reasons, not because they were qualified. the administration always complains that the president has the right to appoint the people he wants, but we now see how deadly that notion can be. actually, i think it is more to the point to say that the president has the obligation to appoint the most qulified person to key positions. the next time he tries to bring in some party hack for an important job, we all need to hammer them mercilessly with the names brown and chertoff. people have to understand that this dumbing down of government agencies in a time of war and terrorism is one of the biggest threats this country faces. jeez,bush will rot in hell for all he has done to this world.....

[GeorgeBushytail]

20. He donated $1000 to Bush for President

Here's a link to the source:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2059095&mesg_id=2059095

[Catchawave]

22. Why did the voters hire a miserable failure as President ?

:shrug: So it shouldn't surprise anyone he's filled his administration with good ole boys and frat brothers! Sad, isn't it?