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Acting “on behalf of the earth.”

Heckuva job.

Profile this.

Fraudulent Emergency Mismanagement Asshats.

All of it.

Former FEMA director Michael Brown, Fashion God, appeared on The Colbert Report tonight.
He sure seemed to be having a good time talking about how government at all levels presided over a hurricane disaster that killed more than 1,000 people. Ho, ho, ho.

Download and watch the video clip (.wmv file).

Colbert: What happened? Five words or [...]

I took a lot of heat (and will continue to get it) from many of my GOP friends for pointing out former FEMA head Michael Brown’s abysmal performance during and after Hurricane Katrina. Unlike many conservatives, I was unimpressed by his CYA testimony before Congress last September. He overpromised. He under-delivered. He assumed instead of [...]

The New Orleans Times Picayune pieces together some of the back story on the Katrina bus fiasco:
Two days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, thousands of people were trapped in the city without food, water and medical care and growing increasingly desperate for rescue. But a top aide to Gov. Kathleen Blanco sent out an [...]

Michael Brown is a buffoon. I got a lot of grief from many fellow conservatives for saying the obvious two months ago. Now, y’all seem to be coming around.
A reader sends along a photoshop prank…perhaps inspired by USA Today?
Xinhua Online:

Actual:

Via Free Republic.
Blogs of War has another photo tribute to Brown: Fashion God.
Wizbang readers react.
Why is [...]

I received a bit of flak from some of my conservative friends for highlighting FEMA’s inadequate response–particularly former FEMA chief Michael Brown’s embarrassing performance–during Hurricane Katrina. This week, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and FEMA official Marty Bahamonde confirmed FEMA’s failures once and for all. Bahamonde’s testimony yesterday was especially damning. He [...]

***scroll for updates…Bush Rose Garden press conference scheduled for 1030am EDT…a few liveblogging notes…other reax…1245pmEDT Drudge siren…transcript of presser***
Well, it’s a new day. Upon sober reflection, President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court appears…even worse than it did 24 hours ago. Conservative legal scholar John Yoo sums up the decision as an [...]

Couple of items:
1) The New Orleans superintendent of police is resigning in advance of planned tribunals to investigate the alleged mass desertion of hundreds of cops in Katrina’s wake. It’s about time we saw some local heads roll. Nagin should be next.
2) Michael Brown’s testimony before Congress is receiving some rave reviews. Some e-mailers are [...]

There’s lots of buzz about last night’s CBS News report on former/not-so-former FEMA director Michael Brown’s status:
Former FEMA director Michael Brown is continuing to work at the Federal Emergency Management Agency at full pay, with his Sept. 12 resignation not taking effect for two more weeks, said Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke.
CBS News correspondent [...]

**scroll for updates**
She’s Category 4.
Laurence Simon has a growing list of local Texas bloggers who are tracking Hurricane Rita. Galveston residents are on the move.
The latest from weatherblogger Jeff Masters is here.
The Weather Channel’s blog is here. More from WeatherGuide here.
Engineers are racing to patch the levees in New Orleans. Oil prices up; more rigs [...]

**updated**

Another disastrous crony appointment in the making
This is Julie Myers, President Bush’s nominee to head the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
Her nomination is a joke. A bad joke: (via WaPo)
The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the [...]

Some of my good friends on the right side of the blogosphere say that ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown has been unfairly maligned for Katrina-related problems caused by state and local officials in Louisiana. John Hawkins of Right Wing News says Brown lost his job because Louisiana Gov. “Kathleen Blanco is an idiot.” Bryan Preston [...]

FEMA head Michael Brown is history. Via Breitbart/AP:
Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, The Associated Press has learned.
Brown is being sent back to Washington from Baton Rouge, where he was the primary official overseeing the federal government’s response to the disaster, according [...]

Tancredo sez: Fire Michael Brown
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Nagin and Brown: peas in a pod
FEMA fraud alert
Memo to Bush: Fire Michael Brown

That’s the subject of my latest syndicated column on Hillary, Hurricane Katrina, and the soiled legacy of the 9/11 Commission. Excerpt:
Sen. Clinton’s “Katrina Commission” would be modeled after the “independent” 9/11 Commission. I can see it now: Democrat Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, whose main imperative is covering up her own culpability, will be the next [...]

Another Republican Senator is criticizing FEMA’s performance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, CNN reports:
Sen. Trent Lott berated both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and his own state’s emergency management, MEMA, for being mired in red tape at a time of urgent need given the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.
Lott said he has been trying [...]

During his visit to Mobile, Ala., on Friday, President Bush singled out Michael D. Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for praise:
“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.“
Really? “Brownie’s” job is to direct the federal response to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Let’s review his public statements during the past [...]

***scroll down for updates…Louisiana Gov. requesting federal troops…looting in Biloxi…hospital evacuations…someone looted a Dyson vacuum cleaner…”Finding vs. looting…”***
Darkness is descending on New Orleans, literally and figuratively. Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, the N.O. Times-Picayune blog reports that the local children’s hospital is under siege:
Late Tuesday, Gov. Blanco spokeswoman Denise Bottcher described [...]

***See update: John Roberts***
So, it’s not Clement.
Then who?
The others:
There was early speculation about Judge Edith Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, but Republicans indicated later she was not the nominee. Another female candidate thought to be under consideration was Edith Hollan Jones, who serves on the same court.
Among the women being [...]

The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel has been doing a fantastic job watchdogging hurricane-related fraud in Miami-Dade County, Fl. A summary of “Cashing in on disaster:”
Hurricane Frances hit South Florida Labor Day weekend, 100 miles north of Miami-Dade County, but Sun-Sentinel reporters found that the federal government approved $28,000,000 in storm claims there for new [...]