AP - Michael Brown has resigned as head of FEMA

AP (via JSOnline.com) ^

[steveegg]

AP News Alert

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mike Brown says he has resigned as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

[SC_Republican]

Mr Brown...this is a bus....now get under it.

[RexBeach]

Bub-bye, "Brownie"!

[A CA Guy]

He resigned instead of being fired?

[EX52D]

I don't really think this comes as a surprise to anybody. I was kind of waiting for it.

[Living Free in NH]

Mr Brown...this is a bus....now get under it.

But the buses are underwater and I'll get wet. AND IT'S NOT MY FAULT!

[steveegg]

He resigned instead of being fired?

I'm just quoting AP.

[Pondman88]

He had a great job, until Katrina....

[LikeLight]

Has anyone in Washington ever been fired? Of course they always "resign". And of course, he was pushed.

[Shalom Israel]

He resigned instead of being fired?

I agree--that's outrageous. Bush should have rejected his resignation, and then fired his tuchus.

[xcamel]

Too bad, he was the HERO of 4 hurricanes in FLA, and helped bring BUSH back to the Whitehouse last year..

How quickly people forget.

[ssaftler]

One down, two to go.

[angry_dad]

He serves at the pleasure of the President, so Bush most likely asked for his resignation.

[Pukin Dog]

That means the resume was indeed false. No other possibility, as Bush would have otherwise protected him.

[RichInOC]

"Screw you gahs, Ah'm goin' home..."

[bitty]

We don't know enough of the facts to jump all over him. Most of the ones we know point to the Mayor and Blanco.

[nerdgirl]

I think he was fired last week, this is just an attempt to give the guy some dignity.

[wallcrawlr]

waiting on mayor and gov next...

[frogjerk]

DIMs: "We'll pin it all on Brown. We will refer to this as Katrinagate infinitum. It will be a rallying call every election. When is ROVE resigning?"

[A CA Guy]

I know you are, just seems real complicated, doesn't it?

[Eagle Eye]

Even then.

I haven't yet seen anyone specify any failures on FEMA, Brown or Bush.

[YouPosting2Me]

Pup up.
Brown down.
Pup is down.

Where is Brown?
There is Brown!
Mr. Brown is out of town!

[dfwgator]

So when do Nagin and Blanco follow suit?

[WHBates]

Right, maybe he decided that it wasn't worth the crap.

[SittinYonder]

I feel bad for him. I continue to believe that the federal response to this was as good as it could have been. The failures were on the state and local level. The feds responded better than with Hugo or Andrew.

[Michael Goldsberry]

It's Bush's Fault!

;)

[Black Tooth]

No real surprise here.

[mewzilla]

Now let's see if Blanco, Mitch Landrieu, and Nagin all keep their jobs.

If so, it will provide a telling contrast.

[hlmencken3]

I'm holding my fire.

Brown may be going to spill the beans on Blanco from outside the Bush administration.

[A CA Guy]

Guess they wanted to leave him semi-employable and in posession of his Government pension.

[texianyankee]

You got a long wait.....

[cgk]

I agree, too bad.

Faster FEMA response than Hugo, Jeanne, Ivan, Andrew and the Dems are allowed to run him not just out of Katrina's relief areas, but out of his job.

[A CA Guy]

We don't know, Bush may have directed his resignation. We will never know!

[Texas Songwriter]

This will be promulgated by the press and democrats as an admission of wrongdoing. Nothing more needs to be said. This is simply more fodder for the MSM.

[floriduh voter]

Hero in Florida? Where did you get that information? Jeb Bush is the hurricane expert in Florida. Brown just showed up with the FEMA checkbook. So Brown knew how to write checks. He didn't know how to manage a catastrophe, especially when there was a renegade mayor and egocentric governor along for the ride.

Blanco and Nagin won't but should also resign. They are two stupid democrats.

[fooman]

well, rummy will be next. they got 'mo.

[A CA Guy]

He sure did fall on the sword.

[steveegg]

Too bad, he was the HERO of 4 hurricanes in FLA, and helped bring BUSH back to the Whitehouse last year..

How quickly people forget.

It's always a game of "What have you done lately?"

[frogjerk]

That means the resume was indeed false. No other possibility, as Bush would have otherwise protected him.

Source? I thought the Time article was bogus?

[Arizona Carolyn]

I look at it this way. Now 'Brownie" is free to say whatever he really has to say on the subject -- which would include the fact that FEMA is a coordinating agency.

The only thing that bothers me is it appears he was too concerned with government paperwork and in an emergency you have to act first and paperwork second.

[dfwgator]

Yes, watch the press now become sympathetic to Brown, and designate him as the fall guy.

[petercooper]

Yes how is he incompetent and Blanco and Nagin aren't? How exactly did Brown screw up?

[fooman]

amen on 11.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Time to dismantle FEMA - give block grants to local and state governments and beef up spending on National Guard units. FEMA is about as useful as the worm in Tequila.

[wtc911]

That means the resume was indeed false. No other possibility, as Bush would have otherwise protected him.

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The resume on the FEMA page was "updated" two days ago....I consider that a clue.

[xcamel]

It was a bogus story..

[nuffsenuff]

They're already calling it "FEMAgate".

[floriduh voter]

FV predicted days ago that MB would leave and write a tell all book. I have no idea what would be in it though.

[babaloo]

He may not have done anything "wrong" absent lying on his resume but he did look like he was totally out of touch during those interviews early on. If he would have said early on that the situation was very serious and FEMA was going to do eveything it could to help rescue and care for the people he may not have lost his job.

[MEG33]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05254/568876.stm
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Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and airports are covered with debris, and apparently have little interest in finding out.

So they libel as a "national disgrace" the most monumental and successful disaster relief operation in world history.

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