Posted on 10/30/2012 5:05:51 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
Bush-era FEMA Chairman Michael Brown is standing by his suggestion that President Barack Obama acted too soon to call attention to federal disaster response efforts to Hurricane Sandy.
“In the context of the election, I simply said he should have waited,” Brown told POLITICO Tuesday afternoon. “The storm was still forming, people were debating whether it was going to be as bad as expected, or not, and I noted that the president should have let the governors and mayors deal with the storm until it got closer to hitting the coastal areas along the Washington, D.C.-New York City corridor.”
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I don’t follow your answer....
Figured it out...post #6....
Re-read your post (#6 on this thread) and therein lies your answer. Sandy will not have an impact on this election.
Exactly right. Your post #6 made a lot of sense. I wouldn’t sweat it.
We’re all on edge because we want to get rid of the monster in the White House, and thinking it through a little too much.
I don’t think most of the country will change their vote all of the sudden in their belief that 0bama’s Superman because of his supposed action in response to Sandy.
He’s done too much damage financially to everyone’s bottom line.
Steady as she goes.
I don’t really think Brownie screwed up in NO. Do you? It’s all politicis. Most likely any late government help was due to the Gov of MS. The president really can’t do much except send checks and look concerned. It was a set-up. The truth is the media can set Obama up just as easily regarding Sandy if they wanted to. It’s all freakin’ politics.
The hurricane people were begging Nagin to call for an evacuation on Saturday night before the storm and he refused. He was out having dinner with friends, IIRC. He moved his family to Dallas, BTW.
All was made worse, of course, because the people most affected were people who had never been responsible for their own well being.
Agreed.
I like Brownie. He’s been doing Denver radio for a couple of years now. I enjoy listening to him. Not sure I like him paired up with David Sirota on 630 KHOW now though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Brown
Radio talk show host
Brown filled in at various times on Denver radio station KOA after leaving government service. In February 2010 he was named the host of the Michael Brown Show from 7-10 pm weeknights on KOA, when not preempted by sports. Brown has embraced the criticism received during his handling of FEMA and has indicated that this gives him insight into when government fails. Brown currently teams up with Denver liberal KKZN host David Sirota For KHOW’s Sirota-Brown show for KHOW’s afternoon drive slot.[29] Politically on the program Brown is conservative, expressing a strong libertarian tilt.[30]
Key words: "if at all possible." Experience has to play a role here.
Say 49 states out of 50 states or 499 out of 500 cities can deal effectively with a major storm. The one case where a state or a city can't or doesn't makes the papers and there's a call for greater federal oversight. After that, it's hard to go back.
But the federal government is already involved in disaster response. Federal disaster aid and FEMA have been around for some time. Washington DC already has a responsibility for disaster relief, and an interest in seeing to it that the right response is made.
I'm not sure that they're taking it over: cities and states still play the major role, but after Katrina the federal government is going to make sure things go smoothly -- whoever is in the White House.
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