The Smoking Memo
In the Bush leagues, it's not actually results or effectiveness that matters, it's the appearance that you're doing something that is the top priority. Not reality, but creating reality.
Brown should be toast.
(September 06, 2005 -- 09:09 PM EDT // link // print)Read the actual document here.
Off the AP Wire: "The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region — and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents. Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims. Before then, FEMA had positioned smaller rescue and communications teams across the Gulf Coast. But officials acknowledged Tuesday the first department-wide appeal for help came only as the storm raged."
posted by The Inside Dope @ 9/07/2005
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2 Comments:
Perhaps in 50 or 100 years historians will cite Michael Brown as the man whose incompetence in a crisis helped destroy the Republican Party. Stranger things have taken place in the course of human history.
You are correct in that seemingly unrelated incidents can often be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
But recent polls are showing that the public isn't blaming the Federal Government or Bush, though they do by a large margin feel that Bush did a terrible job of managing the crisis.
It appears that those prone to being brainwashed by the massive right wing propaganda are "around the bend" so to speak, and will never believe anything bad about Bush up to and including if Bush himself came up and bulldozed their house and slapped their wife.
They'd find some way to excuse it, probably saying it was an inocent mistake and that he has a lot on his mind.
These people are simply beyond hope and won't wake up until the rest of the country who are awake and aware fix things for them.
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