Brownie is full of EXCUSES..."What more can I say?" he asks....

[opihimoimoi]

"I did this and I called that person, etc etc"

"they did not give me the back up, nor the monies when asked"

etc etc...

The Fact of the Matter is, he was in over his HEAD. Of course a person can do his best in any given position and still fail. Brown was like that...he failed because his best was far from needed...he was in trouble the day he came aboard....

he was crony of the worst kind...the ones who kicked back and never took the time to learn what it takes to get things DONE...he was interested in running the place with HIS FRIENDS for a crew.

He is no John Wayne...Obstacles? Adjust/Improvise and OVERCOME....they teach this in the Movies, in the Marines, in all Leadership Literature books, etc

Brownie is trying to be the tough guy cleaning his act...which failed...

All he has to do was say..."President Bush made a mistake in appointing me....I was not qualified and neither did I learn much in handling big shit."

[BOSSHOG]

1. Irony

Is he not the ultimate scapegoat? The white house doesn't have to work at all to make this clown out to be a buffoon. But there is no denying, he was a bush appointee, just like the little brown wannabe 24 year old dipshit with the false resume who worked for NASA for awhile.

[OnyxCollie]

3. Actually, Brownie was an appointee of an appointee.

Joe Allbaugh, who worked on Chimpy's campaign, hired him. So, he's two turds removed from the steaming pile that is *.

[MADem]

6. Yeah, but when Joey left, it was Monkeyboy that gave him the promotion

He couldn't have slid into the slot without the upcheck of the White House...so that excuse doesn't fly, even though Monkeyboy might want it to...

[OnyxCollie]

8. Don't get me wrong.

I'm not excusing Chimpy, nor the "Fashion God." I was commenting on how inept a crony of a crony can possibly be.

[MADem]

2. When a leader chooses a person to do the job, the leader is both

responsible and accountable for the performance of that person. What we have here, folks, is a FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP.

Brownie is simply walking, talking proof-positive that SHIT ROLLS DOWNHILL. He was incompetent (a horse boy, and a crony, certainly) but the person who appointed him to the job is responsible for, accountable for, and should be punished for his level of performance, which was poor in the extreme.

A General does not blame the Private for losing the battle. The Captain of the ship does not fault the Seaman Recruit when the vessel goes aground.

Look UP the chain of command. That is where accountability and responsibility lie.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Steal my thunder MADem

I found it quite amusing yesterday when the esteemed Senator Coleman was telling brownie about the importance of leadership.

and the latest evidence of the republican farm club - The "deutch" bag and his short term at NASA. Horrors, a young republican lying about his resume and then throwing his lightweight around at a government agency. And this is exactly what "conservatives" in America want.

[MADem]

7. Well, they don't understand the concepts, see!!!

It sort of helps to have served in the military to understand these issues about responsibility, accountability, and authority! Most of our GOP brethren have shirked that "opportunity to excel" so the ideas are completely foreign to them.

They come from the "shift blame" cadre, not "shift colors!"--and they think "getting underway" has something to do with one's skivvies tripping one up enroute to the crapper!!

[Coastie for Truth]

5. There were other people in DHS who had assets in the air

as soon as it was safe.
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Admiral Allen didn't wait for Bushie or Chertoff or Brownie. The CG aircraft were in the air before the OPORD was executed.
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Coasties are "First Responders" - like fire fighters and rescue medics.


"Coastie"
Lieutenant, United States Coast Guard (Honorably Discharged)
formerly, HazMat Officer, Port Safety New Orleans

[SujiwanKenobee]

9. However, what he said made sense to me.

One of my semester long grad school projects a couple years ago was an investigation and analysis on the possible repercussions of the Homeland Security agglomeration.
The many points made were so in line with what I thought might happen both in general and in an emergency situation. Personally, I think he was being honest about the situation faced that led to such ineffectiveness. I'm not going to jump on the bash 'im bandwagon--there's too much blame to spread around.

[MADem]

10. He is what he is--a political appointee, doing what should be a civil

servant's job--an EXPERIENCED civil servant's job.

The fault lies at the top. You don't appoint a tap dancer to do rocket science, and that's what the Monkey did. He put a pal in a job that was essential to our security and safety as a nation...an incompetent pal, at that.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Ole Brownie is a real Dawg!

Look at all the people Bush have given jobs to, like Brownie, who know nothing about the job they are supposed to do, whatsoever. The one qualification Bush demands of his hirelings, is that they kiss his ass. I guess he figures if they kiss ass well, they can sort the little shit out much later. Brownie knew about horses plooking one another, not disasters. The head of the DHS Mr. Cheertoff, or whatever off, is a shyster lawyer and the only thing he knows about disasters, besides helping to cause them, is how to make money for himself chasing ambulances to the disasters.

I'm glad Bush don't appoint America's brain surgeons!

[opihimoimoi]

13. Bushie himself shows impressive signs of a midnight Lobotomy

His Frontal and Central Lobes seems to be absent from the cranium

causing major judgement errors....no skill in judgement leads to fuck ups of the highest order...

Napoleon did that, used a stupid crony to command his troops and guess what? Waterloo time...lost the battle and his position as the MAN...became the PRISONER, banished to ELBA

Hitler had his cronies...look what hoppen to HIM.

Carter had Bert Lance...guess what...gone with the wind...

Everyone knows of Nixons Crew....many served TIME dodging other inmates in the locker room.

Brownie is singing like a pig, oink oink but the smell remains...

John Wayne woulda been there...in the thick of things...sans toilet paper too. REAL LEADERS do not run away into restuarants during the heat of Battle....they stay and guide their peeps and do not wait for the Calvary with bugles sounding and Colors flying...Real Leaders lead by SOLVING....

Brownie and his Bosses made it harder to SOLVE

[CAcyclist]

12. I read emails from desperate rescuers begging

for help - Brownie has no clue and I despise him more for acting like he ever tried hard. I don't doubt the real blame lies with Bush, but Brown could have cared and could have tried, really tried - and he DIDN'T!

[opihimoimoi]

14. 10 4 Cyclist 10 4...Brownie is trying to clean up his sorid failure

with bravado...it ain't working for shit