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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (704337)	9/28/2005 6:08:11 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I listened to Browns testimony and like many of us here I had followed the events of Katrina closely in real time. What Brown said, not only made sense to me, but was the way I myself thought things went down at the time, however, the media has decided Browns the culprit so it wont matter for him much what he says, plus as others have said, Brown too has a guilty part to play in this scenario. Personally, I dont think his is nearly as terrible as the mayor and govenor, I also think that in some ways the law ties the hands of any federal agency operating in a state, but his REAL PROBLEM is neither he NOR BUSH nor anyone else until HONORE came along had the BALLS to stand up and shout the mayor and govenor down. jdn

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (704337)	9/28/2005 11:22:52 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Brownie did a heck of job explaining why the Federal Equestrian Management Agency failed so miserably, apart from hiring a horse trainer to head the agency. GW, the head of the idiotocracy, underfunded the agency: "But Brown said he had been frustrated long before the hurricane by "the emaciation of FEMA.'' The agency's "financial resources have dwindled; (its) personnel resources have dwindled.'' Brown became the director under Bush after the formerly independent disaster agency was made part of the vast new Department of Homeland Security in 2002. He argued that the agency's budget requests were routinely cut within the Homeland Security department before being sent to the White House and Congress. He also said that officials at Homeland Security, the only Cabinet department allowed to transfer funds among its own agencies without congressional approval, routinely took money from the agency. He estimated that over the past three years, $77.9 million was taken from the disaster agency for other departmental programs. "I probably should have resigned my post,'' Brown said of the ongoing budget battles. "I have real respect for the people of (the agency). They don't deserve what they're getting.'' sfgate.com