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September 12, 2005
FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns
The man that President Bush called Brownie and said was doing a "heck of a job" resigned today. While I believe that Mr. Brown was the wrong man for the job and that his response to the Katrina disaster was below ineffective, it should be remembered that both Mr. Brown's appointment and his agencies response to Katrina were matters of policy not only incompetence. I've written on this in a previous post. The policy to downgrade FEMA from the effective disaster response agency it became under the Clinton Administration to an ineffective support agency was put in place at the very beginning of the Bush Administration.
Mr. Brown was a pawn in what has turned out to be a chess match the country lost. Remember whose fault the failures were. And they sure weren't Mike Brown's fault. He, like his predecessor, was implementing Administration policy. And, when it comes to implementing that Administration policy, Mr. Brown was doing a heck of a job.
Posted by Duane Smith at September 12, 2005 1:53 PM | Read more on Current Events |
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