CNN VIDEO - "Dems to Blame for Brown Hire?" Lieberman was in charge [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

A few tidbits from the video:

At Brown's confirmation hearing for FEMA deputy director in June 2002, only 4 of 17 senators showed up and the hearing lasted a total of just 42 minutes. At that time, there was a Democratic majority in the Senate. Lieberman was in charge at the Brown hearing, and he says he found Brown acceptable because of his "extensive management experience." No questions were asked about why the 9 years in the Arabian Horse outfit would prepare him for life & death, huge emergency relief responsibilities.

When FEMA was folded into DHS, the Dems agreed to have NO SECOND CONFIRMATION HEARING when Brown was up to become FEMA director.

Now Lieberman is saying that the next FEMA director will get lots of scrutiny. But just one hour earlier, 4 important hearings for DHS appointees were skipped by ALL senators, including Lieberman; only some staff were there. THERE IS NO SIGN THAT THE SENATE DEMS WILL BE ANY MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME, DESPITE LIEBERMAN'S ASSERTIONS.

Unsaid in the video, strangely, was the fact that now the Republicans have the Senate majority and that in any case, Bush is the one who names these monstrously inept POSs for these critically important appointments. The implication was that the Dems failed by not sufficiently protecting the country from the Repubs' folly in naming and supporting Brown, but no blame of the Republicans, let alone of Bush, was given. Truly bizarre, to blame the Dems when it was Bush's appointee and all Repubs supported him.

Truly shameful. Bush and his Republicans were primarily responsible, of course (a point not made in the video), but the Democrats under Lieberman's "leadership" allowed this totally unqualified fool Brown into the position where he could cause the deaths of thousands. There was no scrutiny, no resistance to Brown's appointment to this extremely important position at all.

Lieberman needs to be out of office, along with the rest of the GOP-accommodating useless Democratic deadwood. And this incident should be added to the long list of failures and betrayals by this useless DINO.

I can't give you a direct link to the video, but you will find it on the CNN home page at http://www.cnn.com (it's currently one of the two clips in the "watch free video" box on the right side) or in the video list (just now it was on the 2nd or 4 pages of listings). Again, the title of the CNN free video is
"Dems to Blame for Brown Hire?" (2.21 minutes)