Despite local press coverage which confirms that FEMA's response to Katrina was actually quite good considering the combination of incompetent local authorities and black "civil unrest", Michael Brown has been sacrificed by the Bush administration.
This, despite blog reports which claim the Democrat-controlled Senate unanimously confirmed Michael Brown as deputy director of FEMA:
"Amid all the bashing of FEMA director Michael Brown as an incompetent, unqualified, resume-padding political hack, one small factor has been overlooked: His job required Senate confirmation, didn't it? Indeed it did. And not only was Brown confirmed, but he was apparently confirmed by a unanimous voice vote -- when the Senate was controlled by Democrats. An enterprising blogger has found the transcript of Brown's June 19, 2002 confirmation hearing before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, then chaired by Sen. Joseph Lieberman. The whole affair, including tributes from Brown's home-state senators, apparently lasted less then an hour, and ended with Lieberman saying, "Mr. Brown, I thank you very much. I will certainly support your nomination. I will do my best to move it through the committee as soon as possible so we can have you fully and legally at work in your new position."
Finally, with the "evil party's" chief banshees, such as Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi demanding the head of Michael Brown on a silver platter, GovExec.com reported in 2004 that President Bush should thank Michael Brown for his speedy handling of the FEMA response to Hurricane Charley as it may have delivered Florida to the Bush camp in the general election:
Now that President Bush has won Florida in his 2004 re-election bid, he may want to draft a letter of appreciation to Michael Brown, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Seldom has any federal agency had the opportunity to so directly and uniquely alter the course of a presidential election, and seldom has any agency delivered for a president as FEMA did in Florida this fall.
The editorial line of Scoopster News is "Progressive-Conservative" and is not slavishly pro-Bush; we are independent and objective. However, we regret the Republican adminstration's surrender over Michael Brown. Something the "stupid party" does not understand is that the Left is motivated by the "optics" of a situation. Perception is reality. Partisan Democrats will view this as an enboldening victory and a concession of culpability by the Bush Whitehouse.
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