[Dems_R_Losers]

Regardless of how the MSM trashes Brown for making that comment, the public will have a decidedly different view, because we all saw it in living color for five days.

[Rennes Templar]

Right, but the non-PC audacity of that guy! (give us more!)

[vigilence]

Brown may be a political appointee without the diplomas bureaucrats are so fond of but he's absolutely right in what he's saying, the ultimate fault lies with Blanco-Noggin. FEMA's role was redefined by the media to scapegoat the FEDS and Bush, in particular. If I'm Bush I welcome any review they want to make down the road but he was right to shoulder some of the blame (We can do better) to get the media off his back so he could get some work done now.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Four days after Katrina hit New Orleans I left Tennessee with three other volunteers and a 16-foot trailer of food and medical supplies. We delivered our load to a FEMA shelter in Thibodaux, LA and then worked there for five days before returning home. None of the hundreds of evacuees I talked to blamed FEMA or Bush. A few blamed the City of New Orleans. Most blamed nature. I talked to one group of Oklahoma emergency medical personnel on loan to FEMA who told me they were at the Superdome with all their supplies and equipment the day after Katrina. They said when the levee broke they were ordered up onto elevated I-10 until the flood crested. After that, they could not get back to the Superdome so they moved everything to Thibodaux. FEMA set up an immediate safety net around New Orleans to meet the urgent needs of anyone who could just make it out of the flood. As far as I'm concerned, FEMA did an excellent and heroic job under the circumstances. The media--whose job these days concerns political interpretation more than the recording of history--has totally distorted this whole event.

[xzins]

Brown is right.

Louisianna is dysfunctional. It's congressman can take all the humbrage he desires. At the end of the day, he's wrong and Brown is right.

Why can't GW say this? Because he still has to mobilize a state behind his leadership to get this job done. We've already proven that the governor couldn't mobilize a girl scout sale during cookie month.

[hardworking]

the public will have a decidedly different view, because we all saw it in living color for five days.

You're absolutely right. But who listens to us. Afterall, were just 'the public' so what do we know?

[Dark Wing]

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