Is this a joke, Brownie?

[RockaFowler]

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/30/1110901/bush-fema-director-katrina-hits-obama-sandy/

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown offered criticism of President Obama’s early responses to Hurricane Sandy yesterday, including a dig at the administration’s response to last month’s attack in Libya.

Yesterday, ahead of the storm’s pummeling of the eastern seaboard, Brown gave an interview to the local alternative paper, the Denver Westword, on how he believed the Obama administration was responding to Sandy too quickly and that Obama had spoken to the press about Sandy’s potential effect too early.

SNIP

However, Brown’s comments carry a special irony due to the role he played during the Hurricane Katrina debacle in 2005. As director of FEMA during the legendarily botched response, Brown, famously dubbed “Brownie” by President Bush, was in the center of criticism from both sides of the aisle that the Bush administration was too slow to respond. An internal review by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector-General following the disaster concluded, “Much of the criticism is warranted.” Brown resigned from his position as director less than two weeks after Katrina hit.


Everything to these people is political. Can't stand any of them!

[yardwork]

1. There are no words.

[gateley]

2. Responding "too quickly"? Wait until dead bodies come floating by -- if even then?

Unfuckingbelievable.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. The man needs to walk away from politics all together. Doesn't he realize what a

laughing stock he is. People will never forget "Heckva job Brownie" with a terrible experience. He should walk away and never open his mouth again.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Brownie -- just a shit stain

[demwing]

5. Criticized for being too quick

by the guy who failed because he dragged his ass?

That's fucking rich...

[BlueMan Votes]

6. "responding too quickly".....???

what. a. moron.

[BainsBane]

11. +1 n/t

[Politicub]

7. Good. Resurrect this douche to remind people of how Bush abandoned New Orleans.

He has no right to criticize our president after Brown's inept performance in New Orleans. And, his opinion means nothing.

Had to check and see if this was the onion.

[Doctor_J]

8. For those who insist that Repukes are just like us,

if you can read the OP and still believe that, you are as miserable as they are, and basically useless to the cause.

[joeybee12]

9. Scum is too polite a description of what Brownie is...knr

[Scuba]

10. Brownie, you were better at jacking off horses.

[RiskWrangler]

12. You know how people get that "hair on the back of your neck standing up" feeling?

Well...Brown obviously doesn't have that sensory capability.

[Squinch]

13. He is still alive? To what purpose?

[renate]

25. I lol'ed

Thank you!

[Squinch]

31. Any time!

[vanbean]

26. Well, even skid marks get to waste a little carbon now and then.

[Chorophyll]

14. This man needs to slink back to the shadows from whence he came.

The unmitigated BALLS of this guy to even make a comment...

[rbrnmw]

15. I say

FUCK YOU BROWNIE

[Autumn]

16. Brownie's problem is that not enough people died

and a city wasn't destroyed. Fuck him.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

17. So the Captain of the Titanic doesn't like how Obama steers the ship, eh?

I'm filing this under W for "Who Gives Two Shits What You Think?"

[EmeraldCityGrl]

18. Would love to see him making this comment on every media outlet...

Remind everyone out there the difference between then and now. Get some footage
of the shrub patting Brownie on the back and thanking him for the good job he did.
Yes folks is this what you want to go back to? Because this is what you're going to get.

Oh yeah Brownie, tell us how it should be done and how willard is just the guy to do it your way.

[oswaldactedalone]

19. This from the guy

who sat in a restaurant a safe distance away while Katrina was pounding Nola and ate a full course meal, then later pitched a fit when he learned that someone had packed the wrong color dress shirts for him to wear during his stroll down Bourbon Street.

What a flaming idiot.

[surrealAmerican]

20. We knew he wouldn't have the decency to remain silent ...

... but I would have thought he might have the intelligence to.

Thanks Brownie, for reminding all of us how much better off we are without you and your old boss.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

21. Miserable fuckwit.

[Blue Owl]

22. Brownie is Retroactively Failing

Heckuva job, Brownie.

[justiceischeap]

23. Why would anyone want his opinion on this?

He ran a horse organization and he ran FEMA into the ground.

[SidDithers]

24. Denver Westword looks like a Gary Johnson supporting libertarian rag...

I'm surprised they're not carrying Greenwald's stuff.

Sid

[RepublicansRZombies]

27. What is with these people? They have no shame? Why don't they have any shame?

I don't get it.

What do we do now that tar and feathers have gone out of style?

[uponit7771]

28. +1!

[nolabear]

29. Now would be a fine time to STFU, Brownie.

[suffragette]

30. Irony overload

It does make a point though about how purposeful Brown's lack of response was.