Did you hear the one about the Red Cross being forbidden from bringing food and water to the Superdome and Convention Center the day after the storm hit?

No, I didn’t hear about the Red Cross being forbidden from bringing food and water to the Superdome and Convention Center the day after the storm hit.

According to Marty Evans, Red Cross President and CEO:

Well, Larry, when the storm came our goal was prior to landfallto support the evacuation. It was unsafe to be in the city. We were asked by the city not to be there and the Superdome was made a shelter of last resorts and, quite frankly in retrospect, it was a good idea because otherwise those people would have had no shelter at all.

So, if there was a subsequent hearing, I can t point you to it.

That’s my point.

You don’t know if there was a hearing. You can’t tell us if there’s a transcript. But that doesn’t stop you from claiming that nobody raised any questions.

So, if there was a subsequent hearing, I can’t point you to it. But what do you think it will reveal. That the Democrats in the Senate didn’t kiss his ass a second time?

But that doesn t stop you from claiming that nobody raised any questions.

Occam’s Razor. If there was a smoking gun in a Michael Brown hearing, someone would have exposed it by now.

But, look what I’m doing. I’m allowing you to divert attention from the Democrat’s performance at Brown’s confirmation hearing as a Deputy Director.

If there was a smoking gun in a Michael Brown hearing, someone would have exposed it by now.

If there was a hearing. Was there? You don’t know.

And deputy director is not director.

But then, how stupid have parts of the liberal web become? The  giggling monsters had been trashing Bush, and the  heartless racist fucks were housing the homeless. Result? Soon, Byron York was quoting this latest Atrios rant and he had every right to do so; it would be political malpractice to ignore it. Meanwhile, progressives of a certain age can recall the last time such nonsense occurred the time when the mindless  Yippies did all they could be make progressives seem like clowns. As red-state Houston houses the homeless, our brilliant professors shout loud, nasty names. Result? This will become an increasingly conservative country, in which mature red-staters house the homeless and institute their tax and military policies while our dumb-ass liberals rant and rail. But so what! People who run with Atrios will have the thrill of having been so right! Why, everyone will have been racists but them! Readers! Oh what a feeling!

I explained to you in another thread how Brown got his job:
Bush nominated him and the Senate including Democrats supported his nomination.

And I,/i> explained to you that the transcript you keep referring to was for a different job than Brown currently holds in an agency that wasn’t yet part of DHS.

When will you ever stop trying to fool the other commenters here?

But when it comes to explaining why it s okay for Bush to appoint cronies and hacks to head up the Federal disaster relief agencies, he has nothing to say.

I explained to you in another thread how Brown got his job:
Bush nominated him and the Senate including Democrats supported his nomination.
He was confirmed by a voice vote. Do you know what that means?
It means not a single Democrat stood in opposition to his nomination.

Do you mean to tell me that you admire these useful tools who kiss a guy s ass one year, and then belatedly discover let s see, years later, and ,oh, only after a major disaster that he has  no qualifications.
Yet you continue to insist that it s all because one man nominated one other man.
When you will ever get it?

But when it comes to explaining why it s okay for Bush to appoint cronies and hacks to head up the Federal disaster relief agencies, he has nothing to say.

I explained to you in another thread how Brown got his job:

Bush nominated him and the Senate–including Democrats–supported his nomination.

He was confirmed by a voice vote. Do you know what that means?

It means not a single Democrat stood in opposition to his nomination.

Do you mean to tell me that you admire these useful tools who kiss a guy’s ass one year, and then belatedly discover–let’s see, years later, and ,oh, only after a major disaster–that he has “no qualifications.”

Yet you continue to insist that it’s all because one man nominated one other man.

When you will ever get it?

To Oliver, that’s the ONLY qualification that pleases him in a Democrat.

Oliver reminds me more every day of the character of Jack from “Lord of the Flies,” you know the one, who when freed from the constraints of civil society, shouts chants like “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”

This hurricane was different for many reasons, the most important being that it was a continuing disaster with an ongoing need for organization and leadership.

Also, within the past couple of years, FEMA was folded into DHS, and the scope of its involvement in responding to disaster changed.

Brown may have been an adequate administrator to cut some checks, but he has failed this challenge.

Chertoff: we have brought this to the Superdome, there are stations in which The limiting factor here has not been that we don’t have enough supplies. The fact is that we really had a double catastrophe. We not only had a hurricane, we had a second catastrophe, which was a flood. That flood made part of the city very difficult to get to . . .

Siegel: Um-hum . . .

Chertoff: If you can’t get through the city you can’t deliver supplies. so we have in fact, using road gaps, been getting food and water to distribution centers and places where people can get them.

If DHS isn’t in charge, who is he calling “we”?

“Brown, a patronage appointee with no previous disaster management experience, embarrassed himself last year with his attempts to justify FEMA’s waste of more than $31 million in hurricane relief given to areas not affected by a hurricane. After a South Florida Sun-Sentinel investigation exposed the waste, the newspaper called for Brown to be fired. It now repeats that call.”