I'm having trouble getting a handle on Brown. Maybe Wallace can sort it out a little today.
We'll see.
The dead MSM will never get over with Katrina. Wallace don't want his ratings increase, it seems. Someone at Fox should hold him to account and ask him why his ratings never showed any improvement than when Tony Snow hosted.
I can't either. Best I can figure, Brown's agency-FEMA- was determined that it will report to Homeland Security once congress invented DHS to appease worried constituents after 9-11.
Congress willy-nilly does this type of thing for political expediency. Giving no thought to how difficult such a change in structure to any business or agency is. A business entity would do re-structures but would clearly understand it will take some time to effect. Not to mention the inner fiefdoms and employee disruption.
Indeed, the creation of the Dept. of Homeland Security was just such a willy-nilly move by congress.
Also, to state the obvious, such huge re-organizational re-structures are even worse with bureaucracies, as one might imagine.
I suspect that the administration, having to deal with the reality of getting done what the congress critters enacted that they may look good, left the reporting structure pretty much the same. IE, FEMA would go on doing the job as it had done with the Admin winking an eye.
Except things didn't go well in Louisiana and there was the ability, heh, to point the fingers by the hysterical congress critters. Who likely knew the story but why bother with the truth when you can lie expediently?
If any group of people could be held responsible for the utter bogging and ineffectiveness of our government, it would be the congress critters.
Not to mention I suspect that Brown absolutely HATES Michael Chertoff.
Just a hunch.
No trouble at all: When he was a Bush appointee, he was evil. Now that he's out of the Bush circle, he's a saint. There's no need for a messy transition, just ignore the previous stories.
IMHO BROWN was the fall guy and while there is NO DOUBT there were mistakes at every level of gov't, the LION'S SHARE of the blame goes to the LOCAL and STATE [Nagin & Blanco].
Let's face it this was the single most devestating natural event ever dealt with on THAT SCALE and the WEAK link that caused the chain to break was Nagin's and Blanco's ineptitude and the LAW that stopped the FED's from taking over when they realized that they were dealing with incompetent first responders.