Can somebody sum up the Brownie hearing?

[sidwill]

I basically want to know if this is the usual dog and pony show or has it been damaging to shrub in any way.

[emulatorloo]

1. Repugs protecting Bushboy. Brownie not playing his role as "one bad apple"

EOM

[Dunvegan]

2. Some damage...Brownie is lame but fighting back.

Reps are going after his compentency and trying to blame Brown's competency.

[rpgamerd00d]

3. Summary: "Dear President Bush, "

[bridgit]

4. "you're one heck of ah snarky punk, brownie!"

:rofl: "a heck of an elitist shirker of responsibility after my own image too"

[WI_DEM]

5. It's everybody's fault but mine and Georgies

[redirish28]

6. I will admit I am not listening to it FULLY but I do have it on and the

sense I am getting is that Brownie didn't get what he wanted from the White house so he is carefully and indirectly naming names.


Anyone else get that sense?


Repugs and angry as he!!

[Nordmadr]

7. He is singing and naming names! Just tossed Rove's out there!

[cindyw]

8. It is an interesting dance by repubs scapegoating and saying shit happens.

The Dems I think are trying to ascertain whether he WH has a part in the blame and trying to figure out how the departments (FEMA, DHS) worked at the time of the hurricane.

[Coastie for Truth]

9. My own take (Standby to go to NO, did local resettlement )

At the FEMA and DHS HQ level and WH level there was a massive (catastrophic) screwup, and at the Louisiana State Government and New Orleans local level there was a massive screw up- but even worse - nobody got an up and running until General Honore and Admiral Allen arrived. Which meant relief supplies sat on trucks and workers were sent to the wrong places, and nobody who who was where.

There's a reason for the - and Katrina shows what happens when you have marginally competent political appointees who don't know how to use, and don't care to learn --

And I have heard through the NGO Responder (Red Cross, Salvation Army, Baptist Brotherhood, Ham Radio) community and the "Out of Town" professional first responder community (Fire, Rescue Medic, Urban Search and Rescue, out of state National Guard) that the civilian Feds just got in the way - and were busy playing politics.

I am a Red Cross Disaster Service and Mass Housing Volunteer, a Community Emergency Response Team captain, a Ham Radio Operater, and a veteran of the United States Coast Guard - in New Orleans - and I was doing resettlement up through Christmas ---- so I am in a position to comment and criticize.