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Mike Brown resigns
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Considering Bush and his cronies spent the last two weeks blaming local and state officials, I'm not sure how well he'd be able to rewrite history and blame Mike Brown. Besides, we all know Bush won't turn on a friend. Brown's probably off to join Albaugh to profit off Bush's messes.
Is there a place where a guy can go and work for a hurricane? This is just reminding me of the one guy in the 'environment deperatment' or whatever who resigned because he was caught changing evidence to make them disprove global warming, and then ends up getting a job at Exxon :lol
Beer Monkey
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Now is definitely time to play the blame game, and keep playing it. The 'free ride' from 9/11 is over, no more teflon George.
Fragamemnon
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BLAME IT ON THE RAAAIIINNNNNN
- Milli Vanilla, who were just as much fakes as Brownie and his merry band of incompetents.
- Milli Vanilla, who were just as much fakes as Brownie and his merry band of incompetents.
bob_arctor
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argon said:
We don't have to spin. The guy's an asshole, plain and simple. Anyone thinks contrary to that is just disconnected from reality. Or a lap dog. Or hates being completely and utterly wrong--and then admitting so.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Man the Bears just cant catch a break.
Phoenix said:Pfft, I can spin this
"The stress from the job was too much for him and it has traumatized him and his family so he is going to go off to do other things and I think this guy deserves a vacation..."
+1 Phoenix spin abilities!
Cerebral Palsy
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Too bad Bush won't resign.
FEMA should be apart from Homeland Security. Back when it was on it's own it had the authority to direct like 12 different agencies and oversee everything. This was during Clinton's administration. Not saying that Clinton had anything to do with that, I'm sure it was that way under Bush Sr as well, but FEMA was a Clinton admin success story. Bush has this nasty habit of doing the complete opposite of everything Clinton had...apparently even the good stuff.
Such a joke... I'd be very surprised if Bush regains legitimacy after his presidency in the private sector. Who the fuck would want to work for him? He forces people to tell him what he wants to hear, then when it backfires, despite what they do, he fires them and blames them for it anyways. What a fucking cocksucker. I hope the IRS catches his ass in 10 years and nails him for tax evasion or some shit, just so he'll be reviled throughout history.
dammitmattt
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Does no one blame the city of New Orleans for how they were so monumentally unprepared to handle this disaster? And how they didn't fix their levees years ago?
Ninja Scooter
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mmlemay said:
You should be the head of FEMA. What do you know about Arabian horses?
dammitmattt
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DarienA said:
In this thread, it's BUSH, BUSH, BUSH. He screwed up, true, but most of the blame lies with the governments of New Orleans and Louisiana. That's all I'm saying.
Fragamemnon
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argon said:
I love the sourcing of that article. Newsmax? Not to mention the apples-to-oranges comparison between Floyd and Katrina. There was a VERY coordinated and immediate response to Floyd with respect to getting people out of danger. There were so many Coast Guard helicopters in Rocky Mount lifting people off roofs that one was dedicated to air traffic control. Yes, there was freshwater flood deaths-2/3 of them were due to people getting trapped in vehicles. It was a really rough storm but the response wasn't a incomprehensible human tragedy like Katrina is.
Oh, and for the record:
This was when the hurricane was 200-300 miles off the coast.
Clinton raced back to Washington days before the storm hit. Chimpy McCokeperson didn't make it back to Washington until days after the storm hit, and stayed the night in Texass along the way.
DISGRACEFUL.
Fragamemnon
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mmlemay said:
I'm sure the City of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes would like to be in control of the yearly Defense appropriations bill, but that's just not quite the case. The levees are built managed, and maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers, and have been for decades (since after Betsy in the 1960s, I believe).
Yeah, I saw that on CNN earlier. Right afterwards CNN read Brown's statement, which said he had told Bush of reason to resign, something about his presence being a distraction. So either Brown's statement was in written form and hadn't gotten to Bush yet, or Bush wasn't prepared to respond and lied.Macam said:
Also, Bush's use of emergency workers as background props is really getting obscene.
videogamer
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How do you know it's Newsmax? A quick Google News search didn't come up with Newsmax, but some other right wing news organizations.Fragamemnon said:
No, a lot of it lies at the federal level. NO needed those levees fixed. If they don't get the funding, they can't do it, no matter how much they want to. I'm not saying they are perfect, but you can't get pissed at them for just having to learn to deal with all they had accessible to them...mmlemay said:
Phoenix
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mmlemay said:
Yeah, its not like it hasn't been well know for years by the city and the federal government that it would require many billions of dollars to fix the problem. Since New Orleans isn't rolling in dough of the $16+ billion dollar variety and have request over several decades through various studies to the state and the federal level to fix the problem - sure, they should have fixed those levees years ago. I mean the city is sinking because its weighed down by millions of tons of gold
Blackace
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mmlemay said:
For a number of years they have asked for funding to fix their leeves but Washington failed to fund them.. Bush approved a budget, which was less than half of what they asked for to do the upgrades...So the blame does lay directly at Bush's feet
Beer Monkey
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The fed fucked up big time...now we'll spend orders of magnitudes more to clean it up than we would have spent fixing the levees like our own engineers and scientists warned us.
Shitty fiscal policy. Pennywise and pount foolish, and now we all pay.
Shitty fiscal policy. Pennywise and pount foolish, and now we all pay.
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