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ebonlockvia Sadly No!:
At any rate, I turned to page 5 and found this lovely story:
Brown pushed from last job: Horse group: FEMA chief had to be `asked to resign'
By Brett Arends
(I should note that in the print version, the headline simply reads, "FEMA BOSS FIRED FROM LAST JOB.")
The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows. And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.
"This can't be serious," you say. "Surely, his work overseeing horse shows was a short-term position, right? I mean, maybe he had some kind of relevant experience before then, right?" And you'd hope so. But if you skip to the end of the piece, you'll find a big ol' "Sadly, No!"
Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, Brown spent 11 years as the commissioner of judges and stewards for the International Arabian Horse Association, a breeders' and horse-show organization based in Colorado. "We do disciplinary actions, certification of (show trial) judges. We hold classes to train people to become judges and stewards. And we keep records,'' explained a spokeswoman for the IAHA commissioner's office. "This was his full-time job . . . for 11 years," she added.
Brown was forced out of the position after a spate of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures.
"He was asked to resign," Bill Pennington, president of the IAHA at the time, confirmed last night.
"You gotta be shitting me," you say, slapping your head. "The guy who's in charge of the federal government's disaster relief program previously ran horse shows for 11 fucking years??? And he got fired from it???!!! How did he even get a job with the government???"
Ah, that's the best part!
Soon after, Brown was invited to join the administration by his old Oklahoma college roommate Joseph Allbaugh, the previous head of FEMA until he quit in 2003 to work for the president's re-election campaign.
This is today's Republican Party establishment in a nutshell. They hire totally unqualified people to run governnment agencies simply because they used to be partners in beer pong tournaments. I hope, I really hope, that I'd be just as outraged were a future Democratic administration to exhibit such outright nepotism and incompetence. I cannot imagine being a mindless apologist for this kind of stupidity.
At any rate, I turned to page 5 and found this lovely story:
Brown pushed from last job: Horse group: FEMA chief had to be `asked to resign'
By Brett Arends
(I should note that in the print version, the headline simply reads, "FEMA BOSS FIRED FROM LAST JOB.")
The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows. And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.
"This can't be serious," you say. "Surely, his work overseeing horse shows was a short-term position, right? I mean, maybe he had some kind of relevant experience before then, right?" And you'd hope so. But if you skip to the end of the piece, you'll find a big ol' "Sadly, No!"
Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, Brown spent 11 years as the commissioner of judges and stewards for the International Arabian Horse Association, a breeders' and horse-show organization based in Colorado. "We do disciplinary actions, certification of (show trial) judges. We hold classes to train people to become judges and stewards. And we keep records,'' explained a spokeswoman for the IAHA commissioner's office. "This was his full-time job . . . for 11 years," she added.
Brown was forced out of the position after a spate of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures.
"He was asked to resign," Bill Pennington, president of the IAHA at the time, confirmed last night.
"You gotta be shitting me," you say, slapping your head. "The guy who's in charge of the federal government's disaster relief program previously ran horse shows for 11 fucking years??? And he got fired from it???!!! How did he even get a job with the government???"
Ah, that's the best part!
Soon after, Brown was invited to join the administration by his old Oklahoma college roommate Joseph Allbaugh, the previous head of FEMA until he quit in 2003 to work for the president's re-election campaign.
This is today's Republican Party establishment in a nutshell. They hire totally unqualified people to run governnment agencies simply because they used to be partners in beer pong tournaments. I hope, I really hope, that I'd be just as outraged were a future Democratic administration to exhibit such outright nepotism and incompetence. I cannot imagine being a mindless apologist for this kind of stupidity.
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Fun!
Date: 2005-09-05 09:13 am (UTC)Start here. Then go here.
As you can see, Brown is highly qualified for FEMA.
Re: Fun!
Date: 2005-09-05 03:07 pm (UTC)I'll try to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're being sarcastic.
But on the offchance you're not ...
How does being a lawyer qualify you for coordinating Disaster Relief?
Before being appointed as an under secretary, the man had no experience with anything regarding the environment except for representing a few insurance companies (most likely to try to bilk policy holders out of their claims after their lives were destroyed) and a Drilling Company, in which case the only experience he had was WHITEWASHING and trying to sugarcoat any disasters his client caused.
Re: Fun!
Date: 2005-09-05 07:53 pm (UTC)I'll try to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're being sarcastic.
Trust me, he's being sarcastic here. Hell even CNN and MSNBC have pulled their heads out of their asses and actually started doing stories on this fuckwit. But will it actually cause a backlash on this admin...Oh gods I have to hope so.
Re: Fun!
Date: 2005-09-05 11:25 pm (UTC)BBC, NPR and PBS are much more reasonable.
You godda love the video footage of actual cops looting and then giving the reporter shit for it, claiming that the reports may be looting because they are there, too! :)
Since then, 200+ officers in New Orleans have walked off the job in disgust. :(
Re: Fun!
Date: 2005-09-05 11:18 pm (UTC)I'm *so* helluva pissed at FEMA and Bush for this abhorrent clusterfuck.
Re: Fun!
Date: 2005-09-05 11:39 pm (UTC)Good to hear. I was hoping it was sarcasm. Sadly, there are people who actually believe that shit.
Re: Fun!
Date: 2005-09-06 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-05 01:07 pm (UTC)AAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Heh
Date: 2005-09-05 11:20 pm (UTC)