Tuesday, September 06, 2005

When All You Care About is Rewarding Your Friends, "Stuff Happens"

FEMA Director Michael Bown's 9 years as the Arabian Horse Show Czar (before being fired) apparently didn't prepare him for safeguarding the nation.
(From Randi Rhodes)

This guy is one half of the two-man team securing America. He, and Homeland Security's Michael Chertoff did not know that there were starving, dying people in the convention center on Thursday. Thursday!
From Times-Picayune:
It was clear to us by late morning Monday that many people inside the Superdome would not be returning home. It should have been clear to our government, Mr. President. So why weren’t they evacuated out of the city immediately?

We learned seven years ago, when Hurricane Georges threatened, that the Dome isn’t suitable as a long-term shelter. So what did state and national officials think would happen to tens of thousands of people trapped inside with no air conditioning, overflowing toilets and dwindling amounts of food, water and other essentials?

State Rep. Karen Carter was right Friday when she said the city didn’t have but two urgent needs: "Buses! And gas!" Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.

In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day."

Lies don’t get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.

Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, "You’re doing a heck of a job."

That’s unbelievable.

There were thousands of people at the Convention Center because the riverfront is high ground. The fact that so many people had reached there on foot is proof that rescue vehicles could have gotten there, too.
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No excuses should have been voiced. Especially not one as preposterous as the claim that New Orleans couldn’t be reached.

Mr. President, we sincerely hope you fulfill your promise to make our beloved communities work right once again.

When you do, we will be the first to applaud.

Can we at least fire Brown now and not wait to give him his presidential medal of freedom until after he waits to resign. I am sure he's getting one, because he's "doing a heck of a job."

And, you know we'll get the answers we need when Bush invesitgates himself.
(Hint: Mr President, if you need a place to start your investigatin', first check out why you went golfing, flew off to give a speech on Medicare, then another on VJ Day, then played air guitar with a real guitar, and then back to vacation after the hurricane hit. Then check out why you hired complete fucking morons to safeguard our nation. Then check out why Condi was at Spamalot and Cheney kept his vacation going in Wyoming. Also, see why you cut funding for the levee system, yet frivolously gave away billions of dollars to the highway bill to secure our important infrastructure like building that bridge in Alaska to an island occupied by fifty people. I am so happy those fifty people will have their bridge while a million won't have their city. Anyway, this should keep you busy for a while. Oh, and in case the rumors are true and you do alot better readin' when there are a lot of pictures, then check this out on "the internets.")


This horrible movie you are watching is real.