FEMA emails
posted by Jason
Iraqnow
Michelle Malkin's got 'em here.
michellemalkin.com
I don't have time to speculate at length. Busy ramping up for drill and then hurricane duty shortly after.
My first impression is that Marty Bahamonde comes across as a hysterical whiner.
Yeah, everybody does when they're in the fight, and tensions run high. But what exactly was Brown supposed to do? Run around and panic?
All Brown has to do at that point, is make a call of his own. "Hey, bud. Marty's on the ground in New Orleans and he's asking about oxygen, MREs, and water for the convention center. Did we get our hands on some for that area?"
"Yep. Sure thing, boss! It's en route. Should be there early tomorrow!"
"Roger. Ok, thank you."
End panic.
Go have dinner, Mr. Brown. We've got you covered.
The most important thing Brown can do is think, and follow through. He does not have to run around like a chicken with his head cut off, like Bahamonde does, to judge from his unprofessional emails.
And again, the press makes more of this than really exists.
Malkin says that Chertoff acknowledges that Katrina overwhelmed FEMA resources. Well, yes! Nobody disputes that. But that fact is not in and of itself evidence of gross mismanagement.
If anything, it's a mitigating factor. Malkin doesn't seem to grasp that.
It's become fashionable to plunge knives in Brown's back. But I haven't seen any evidence that Brown was anything other than a dedicated public servant who made some mistakes along the way. But he was, and is, far from incompetent.
And he's head and shoulders above Marty Bahamonte, here.
Splash, out
Jason |
