Flying pigs alert: Michelle Malkin says Bush should fire "Brownie"

MEMO TO BUSH: FIRE MICHAEL BROWN
By Michelle Malkin · September 04, 2005 08:17 AM

During his visit to Mobile, Ala., on Friday, President Bush singled out Michael D. Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for praise:

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Really? "Brownie's" job is to direct the federal response to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Let's review his public statements during the past week:

- He admitted that he didn't act more aggressively because as late as last Sunday he expected Katrina to be a "standard hurricane" even though the National Weather Service in New Orleans was already predicting "human suffering incredible by modern standards."

- He proved himself utterly clueless about the disaster unfolding in New Orleans. He claimed that the federal relief effort was "going relatively well" and that the security situation in New Orleans was "pretty darn good."

- He blamed the flood victims in New Orleans for failing to evacuate on time, even though local authorities failed to make municipal vehicles available to residents who could not drive or did not own their own cars.

"It took four days to begin a large-scale evacuation of people stranded in the Superdome stadium and to bring in significant amounts of food and water to an American city easily accessible by motorway," the Observer notes. "Relief agencies took half that time to reach Indonesia after the Boxing Day tsunami. "

Although the delay was not entirely the fault of the Bush Administration, Brown's complacency clearly didn't help. And his bumbling statements after the hurricane struck have not inspired confidence.

This is not the time to give a weak performer the benefit of the doubt. The FEMA director's role in the ongoing recovery effort is too important to be entrusted to a clueless political hack with such poor judgment.

Rather than praise Michael Brown, Bush should fire him.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003458.htm

state fault. I think she is still putting a bit too much on Blanco and Nagin et al.

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Since that's not sticking, the pukes need someone else to take the fall for Bush's utter and complete lack of leadership.

...and a few dems who might try to stand in the way and prevent this from happening.

... twice a day. :evilgrin:

I'm stunned.

It is so adorable when W makes these little diminuitive nicknames to pump up his own self-importance!

Yasser Arafat said he'd never wear that hat again
The Germans gave every Holocaust survivor a Mercedes-Benz
And the Hutus and the Tutsis made amends

Hell froze over today
And I made good on several debts I never thought I'd have to pay
They discovered Jimmy Hoffa in a houseboat on Lake Erie
Someone proved conclusively the Single Bullet Theory... was wrong

~The Foremen, "Hell Froze Over"

Roy Zimmerman and the Foremen — outstanding political satirists.

Just like she did on O'Reilly's show when she said that Cindy Sheehan's son would be upset with Cindy for what she (Cindy) was doing.

I love how repukes feel they are somehow communing with the dead and putting words in their mouth

:puke:

I cannot agree with that at all.

And manage to waste it with her inane meandering? I couldn't stand her in Seattle, and thank God I rarely read her now.

in order to save bush's sorry ass. It won't work, none of there diversion attempts have worked.

* put Brown into that position.

Fuck the spin.

and off herseLf. she's taking up air that is better spent on better peopLe.

Sacrificial lamb. They wanna throw some meat at us and run.

The Right is falling over themselves right now calling for Brown's resignation. Ask why they're doing that.

Brown is being offered up to protect Chertoff and the Administration. Don't be satisfied with the limited hangout of FEMA and Brown.

will be her first. Rove sent this out