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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (699596)	9/3/2005 3:56:42 PM
From: BEEF JERKEY	Respond to of 769670

Look if you want to argue that the response to Katrina's aftermath has been adequate go ahead - I think 90% of America, and the world for that matter, will disagree with you. Further if you feel Bush and Washington had no role to play - once again - go ahead. Your a diehard Bush supporter and nothing is going to affect your judgment of the man. However most will not be so generous. Why did Bush go down there at all if the Feds have no role to play? Shameful is the only way you can describe Bush's response. Why didn't Bush light some fires under people to get some action happening once he had flown over the disaster area. His interest seemed somewhat curious and that’s it. He released a picture of him looking out the window of the plane and later made a laundry list speech. Meanwhile nothing was happening. The only thing that got Bush going finally was the public outcry. You probably don't realize it yet but you have just seen the death of the Bush administration and your nothing but a Bush apologist .

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (699596)	9/3/2005 5:20:41 PM
From: BEEF JERKEY	Respond to of 769670

"FEMA head Michael Brown had no previous disaster management experience when he was brought on board by the Bush administration in 2001 (originally as deputy director, then as director). But apparently it's actually worse than that. Laura Rozen summarizes: Not only was FEMA chief Michael D. Brown a former attorney for the Lyons, Colorado based International Arabian Horse Association, but he was actually fired from the International Arabian Horse Association. A Kos poster writes that his colleagues says he was fired for being an "unmitigated, total...disaster". The NYT profiles him here. Even I am staggered — Brown was the lawyer for the horse association not back in the 1980s or 1990s, but until 2001 when he was brought into FEMA as deputy director by Joe Allbaugh. Incredible. Yes. Incredible. But not hard to believe. Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, Brown spent 11 years as the commissioner of judges and stewards for the International Arabian Horse Association..."This was his full-time job...for 11 years," [a spokeswoman] added. Brown was forced out of the position after a spate of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures. "He was asked to resign," Bill Pennington, president of the IAHA at the time, confirmed last night. Soon after, Brown was invited to join the administration by his old Oklahoma college roommate Joseph Allbaugh, the previous head of FEMA until he quit in 2003 to work for the president's re-election campaign." washingtonmonthly.com