Bush is strangling America, and it goes a lot deeper than the aftermath of Katrina. The whole article is a shocking read.
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After Katrina, a government adrift
Godfrey Hodgson
6 - 9 - 2005
Dare we hope that the truly lasting importance of the hurricane will be to revive the news media’s independence, and to alert the Democratic party to the full spectrum of dangers in giving unchecked power to a shallow president, corporate interests, and a limited political and ideological clique?
Bush puts loyalty (to him, not America) above all other considerations, including experience, knowledge and skill. He is stuffing cronies into every position he can get away with. Bush is crippling the US and Katrina was a very clear warning. You think he'd do okay if there was another 9/11? Wouldn't his priority be - where next to start a war?
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FEMA Packed With Presidents Pals
Campaign pros get top jobs
By Kenneth R. Bazinet
09/07/05 "Daily News" -- -- WASHINGTON - The three top jobs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bush went to political cronies with no apparent experience coping with catastrophes, the Daily News has learned.
Even if Bush were to fire embattled and suddenly invisible FEMA Director Michael Brown over his handling of Hurricane Katrina, the bureaucrat immediately below him is no disaster professional, either.
While Brown ran horse shows in his last private-sector job, FEMA's No. 2 man, deputy director and chief of staff Patrick Rhode, was an advance man for the Bush-Cheney campaign and White House. He also did short stints at the Commerce Department and Small Business Administration.
Rhode's biography posted on FEMA's Web site doesn't indicate he has any real experience in emergency response.
In addition, the agency's former third-ranking official, deputy chief of staff Scott Morris, was a PR expert who worked for Maverick Media, the Texas outfit that produced TV and radio spots for the Bush-Cheney campaign. In June, Morris moved to Florida to become FEMA's long-term recovery director.
I still haven't figured out how someone who is head of a horse organization has anything to do with emergency management and can garner such a position as Director of FEMA.
09-06-2005 11:43 PM
