Washington-- The lights were on, the cameras were live and the nation was watching, so this House Select Committee had to put on a grand performance. It looked like a old porno circa 77'. Michael Brown was yelled at and talked 'down to' in tones that one never sees on 'The Hill'. Brown appeared before a special congressional panel set up by House Republican leaders to investigate the catastrophe, post hurricane Katrina. His job as FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) director was already gone, so he had nothing to lose. "I'm happy you left," said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. "That kind of look in the lights like a deer tells me you weren't capable of doing that job."
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., told Brown: "The disconnect was, people thought there was some federal expertise out there. There wasn't. Not from you." Brown blamed others for most government failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina, especially Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Brown also said that in the days before the storm, he expressed his concerns that "this is going to be a bad one" in phone conversations and e-mails with
President Bush's, White House chief of staff Andy Card and deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin. Brown said the lack of an effective evacuation of New Orleans before the storm was "the tipping point for all the other things that went wrong."
A "mandatory" evacuation was ordered Sunday by Mayor Nagin. However, transportation was not provided and thousands of residents were stranded.
Doesn't the Governor and Mayor have some responsibility here? The "hurricane evac"plan that was developed wasn't followed. Why? They are the locally elected officials. Dysfunctional? I don't think it was necessary to say that Louisiana was disfunctional, the whole country could see that on TV. Almost half of the police department didn't show up for duty. (This would NEVER FUCKING happen in NYC) Shootings, lootings, rape and all the other crap that goes on in ghettos. When an 'armed gang' was shot at by the National Guard, because they were shooting at telephone repair crews, I laughed. Jeez, what a fuckin' shithole! Even the police are being arrested for looting. If this isn't disfunctional, what is?
In a few months after a lot of research of phone calls, emails and etc. I'm willing to bet that it will come out that the Louisiana Governor, Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin are super-duper fuck-ups. And that this guy, Brown and his agency, FEMA, were powerless against Louisina's 'fuckupedness'.
New Orleans was a dirty corrupt town of unimaginable stink. If Neptune claims it, let him have it. Why should the rest of the nation pay to 'rebuild' New Orleans? If its worth rebulding private enterprise will take care of it.
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