Repubs screw up New Orleans, again
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As we have seen time and time again in the past........A nomination is not job. The Senate in this case is the one who hires.danmand said:That explains it, it was Hillary, wasn't it? But who nominated him?
I smell a develishly clever plan by Scooter. The administration nominated a liberal,papasmerf said:As we have seen time and time again in the past........A nomination is not job. The Senate in this case is the one who hires.
that they wanted Hillary to refuse, so they could get a conservative approved later.
That Hillary is too clever for them.
What's your point?danmand said:I smell a develishly clever plan by Scooter. The administration nominated a liberal,
that they wanted Hillary to refuse, so they could get a conservative approved later.
That Hillary is too clever for them.
I am trying to find a plausible explanation why the Bush administration hired a liberal to rum FEMA.papasmerf said:What's your point?
I would recommend you asking the US Senate why the approved him. You might also ask the people who nominated him.danmand said:I am trying to find a plausible explanation why the Bush administration hired a liberal to rum FEMA.
Michael Brown from Wikipedia:papasmerf said:I would recommend you asking the US Senate why the approved him. You might also ask the people who nominated him.
BTW, I believe that Brown's appointment DID NOT have to be confirmed by the Congress.Michael DeWayne Brown (born November 8, 1954) was Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a position generally referred to as the director or administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was appointed in January 2003 by President George W. Bush and resigned September 2005.
On September 12, 2005, in the wake of what was widely believed to be feckless handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and facing allegations that he had falsified portions of his résumé, Brown resigned, saying that it was "in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president." [1]. His credibility with the public was further shaken when it emerged that he had had no emergency management experience before joining FEMA. The Boston Herald revealed that Brown had previously spent 11 years overseeing horse trial judges and stewards for the Arabian Horse Association, and that the Association had asked him to resign.
Brown was confirmed, but not as Director of FEMA.
After Bush entered office in January 2001, Brown joined FEMA as General Counsel. He was the first person hired by his long-time friend, then-FEMA director Joe Allbaugh[16], who also ran Bush's election campaign in 2000. Allbaugh later named Brown his acting deputy director in September 2001. President Bush formally nominated him as deputy director on March 22, 2002, and the Senate confirmed him many months later. Soon after, when Allbaugh left government, President Bush nominated Brown again in January 2003 for the directorship[17]. Brown was sworn in to his position on April 15, 2003.
TOVisitor said:Brown was confirmed, but not as Director of FEMA.
You just validated the point that the Senate hired him as director.
danmand said:That explains it, it was Hillary, wasn't it? But who nominated him?
I don't understand your poin. You see tov has already answered your question.
Please look up the words "nominate" and "approve" in your dictionary.papasmerf said:You just validated the point that the Senate hired him as director.
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After just 40 secons you would realize he knows nothing. Of course you could call it an early day if that is all you had set up for the day.MarkII said:I take back what I said earlier. TOV deserves the intense questioning.
Isn't it obvious that Rs run the gulf coast and that's coming along nicely, Ds run NO and it's a mess.... same Federal Government.
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Not that I care about Rs vs Ds, but I see MarkII posted the following earlier in the thread:onthebottom said:Isn't it obvious that Rs run the gulf coast and that's coming along nicely, Ds run NO and it's a mess.... same Federal Government.
Try to stay above water for a change.MarkII said:I have a client that is in the hardest hit areas of that storm season. Lake Charles LA and Beaumont Texas. The devastation still remains to this day.
New Orleans had the most affected people but not the majority of devastation. One of the local papers in Lake Charles published a book called Surviving Rita. A lot of the pictures are side by side shots one year later and absolutely nothing has changed.
High and dry.....danmand said:Not that I care about Rs vs Ds, but I see MarkII posted the following earlier in the thread:
Try to stay above water for a change.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4958301
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