When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Investigative journalist Russ Baker has unearthed the answers to a lot of the questions about how Michael Brown, a virtual nobody with no personal connection to the Bush administration, got into a position to make the Federal Emergency Management Agency a horrible failure.
Below is an excerpt from The Real News Project's Unholy Trinity: Katrina, Allbaugh and Brown
Why Allbaugh wanted him and how he got him there is detailed through seven pages describing avaricious, lazy coniving people destroying the Government and the country in order to enrich themselves.
This government is so rotten that it's amazing the Administrtaion has any admirers left. You'd think that evenamong the corporation becoming fabulously wealthy at others' expense would begin to have second thoughts. If I spot any evidence of it, I will report it here. Alas, it's very hard to read the news these days.
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
(except the specific sources credited in quotes)
Heck-of-a-job: It's worse than you thought
Investigative journalist Russ Baker has unearthed the answers to a lot of the questions about how Michael Brown, a virtual nobody with no personal connection to the Bush administration, got into a position to make the Federal Emergency Management Agency a horrible failure.
Below is an excerpt from The Real News Project's Unholy Trinity: Katrina, Allbaugh and Brown
Michael Brown will forever remain the poster child for federal incompetence. And the central question has yet to be answered: who was Michael Brown, and how did he end up at the helm of the Federal Emergency Management Agency? Indeed, how did he and his predecessor and mentor, Bush political operative Joe Allbaugh, manage to turn FEMA, a once proud and effective agency, into a national laughingstock?
On any level, it makes absolutely no sense that Michael Brown should have been holding any major government post. Prior to joining FEMA, his professional pinnacle had been to serve as an inspector of Arabian Horse judges; his highest governmental job had been an assistant to a city manager in a small Oklahoma city decades ago.
"Brownie" had done no known political work for George W. Bush. He was not an industry figure. He was not even among the many longtime allies of the Bush family. The only answer the public has ever gotten in the aftermath of Katrina as to why Michael Brown headed the Federal Emergency Management Agency was a peculiar and highly dissatisfying one: Joe Allbaugh wanted him there.
Why Allbaugh wanted him and how he got him there is detailed through seven pages describing avaricious, lazy coniving people destroying the Government and the country in order to enrich themselves.
This government is so rotten that it's amazing the Administrtaion has any admirers left. You'd think that evenamong the corporation becoming fabulously wealthy at others' expense would begin to have second thoughts. If I spot any evidence of it, I will report it here. Alas, it's very hard to read the news these days.
Palema
3:48 PM
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