From Wisconsin to New Orleans By Way of Katrina

While Wisconsin lefties fret over my criticism of elected officials who are ideological but cannot manage, administer, or evaluate public finances, nationally, the Bush-Brownie Katrina fiasco is resonating in The Daily Kos:

Mike Brown, FEMA director, incompetent

If you haven't seen this incredible diary, FEMA director Mike Brown is an incompetent fool forced to resign from his last job as "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" for the International Arabian Horses Association because of mounting litigation and financial disarray. That performance seemed a perfect fit for an administration that thumbs its nose at effective administrators.

George W. Bush is just one more example of a rising elected official propelled into office by an ideological driven base with no concern for his acumen in areas ranging from public finance to public administration. 

Brown warned White House before Katrina struck

Former federal disaster chief Michael Brown told a Senate panel on Friday he had warned President George W. Bush that New Orleans was facing catastrophe the day before Hurricane Katrina struck...

...Brown said he warned top administration officials on the call that a disaster was looming and that the government should go on top alert and cut through red tape in its response. "I knew in my gut this was the bad one," he said...

..."Our investigation has shown a gross lack of planning and preparation by both the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA," Lieberman said...

...Brown blamed the poor federal response to Katrina partly on the absorption of FEMA into the Department of Homeland Security, which was focused on preventing terrorist attacks and neglected the threat of natural disasters. He urged that it be set up as a separate agency once again.

Incompetent managers unable or unwilling to fix a flawed structure, poor financial management, and Bush directing the entire mess without a clue from his lobbyist gangsters drowned a city, costing lives and money.

Democrats have every right to point the finger and lay blame. The sad part about it is that with the exception of Al Gore, any Democratic Administration in the White House last August, 2005 would probably be facing the same hearings.

There is little consolation that from the Wisconsin State Senate to the United States Senate,  Republicans fare worse.

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[nonheroicvet]

The main reason I opposed wisconsin's concealed carry is that it did nothing to protect me from lying and thieving politicians.