Casualty of Firestorm: Outrage, Bush and FEMA Chief

[roguevalley]

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

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With Democrats and Republicans caustically criticizing the performance of his agency, and with the White House under increasing attack for populating FEMA's top ranks with politically connected officials who lack disaster relief experience, Mr. Brown had become a symbol of President Bush's own hesitant response.

The president, long reluctant to fire subordinates, came to a belated recognition that his administration was in trouble for the way it had dealt with the disaster, many of his supporters say. One moment of realization occurred on Thursday of last week when an aide carried a news agency report from New Orleans into the Oval Office for him to see.

The report was about the evacuees at the convention center, some dying and some already dead. Mr. Bush had been briefed that morning by his homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, who was getting much of his information from Mr. Brown and was not aware of what was occurring there. The news account was the first that the president and his top advisers had heard not only of the conditions at the convention center but even that there were people there at all.

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Elizabeth Bumiller, the NYT reporter who wrote this is a bushbot from hell. Interesting article from her.

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[sam sarrha]

1. Impeach Bush, Impeach the Butcher of New Orleans.!! it was Bush not Brown

that ordered the 48 hour stand down for aid.. to punish the Governor for not handing over all control to an obviously incompetent and immoral agency that had cause the disaster to begin with by looting the funds for the levee's.

[aquart]

2. Still get the feeling she doesn't really know why we're angry.

She gets that we are. Knows what it's about. But, my goodness, look at the problems we're making for George.

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