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September 27, 2005
FEMA's Brownie Does Heckuva Job in Blaming Democrats
As we prescient progressives suspected he might, Michael "Brownie" Brown, exemplar extraordinaire of Republican cronyism, is busily blaming the Democrats for the government's disgraceful response to Hurricane Katrina. His Congressional testimony points the finger of blame at "infighting" between Louisiana's Democratic governor and New Orleans's Democratic mayor. See Yahoo News here. Surely his testimony and his upcoming "Katrina investigation" will not be influenced by the fact that FEMA retains him as a "contractor" and continues to pay his high-dollar salary while he "transitions" out of his former position as FEMA director, right? If you don't trust Bush and Brownie to investigate themselves, please go to U.S. House Representative Louise Slaughter's website to become a "Citizen Co-Signer" on a Congressional Discharge Petition to force the establishment of an independent Katrina investigative commission.
The Katrina response is the terrible fruition of failed Republican policies. An independent commission is the only way to hold them accountable. No doubt, an independent investigation will also uncover more Bush-appointed, Brownie-type cronies, as will the unrelated but concurrent criminal investigations into Tom DeLay-connected lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former OMB procurement chief David Safavian. (See WaPo story entitled "Bush Official Arrested in Corruption Probe" here.) Time to keep the pressure on!
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Brownie perjured himself. He claimed that Orleans and Jefferson parishes were not included in Blanco's disaster request. Read the truth here: http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf.
Posted by: Lyn Wall at September 27, 2005 02:26 PM