A Heck of a Job
As New Orleans awakes from its Beckmann-like dream, federal officials are scrambling to congratulate each other for letting poor people drown and starve.
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," President Bush said.
Brownie, of course, is the president's pet name for Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, who came to the agency after being a commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association; which, as we all know, is a traditional stepping stone for those aspiring toward a career in disaster management.
And there should be no talk of cronyism simply because he was hired by a former college roommate, who himself got his job through political patronage.
It's just unfortunate that in this tragedy there were no horses to save.
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," President Bush said.
Brownie, of course, is the president's pet name for Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, who came to the agency after being a commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association; which, as we all know, is a traditional stepping stone for those aspiring toward a career in disaster management.
And there should be no talk of cronyism simply because he was hired by a former college roommate, who himself got his job through political patronage.
It's just unfortunate that in this tragedy there were no horses to save.
posted by Colin Cohen at 6.9.05
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