Why is This Man in Charge of FEMA?
Michael Brown was hired as a deputy director at FEMA after being fired from a job supervising horse shows, according to
this horrifying article from the Boston Herald.
For eleven years, Brown was the commissioner of judges and stewards for the International Arabian Horse Association.
Then, the Herald reports, "Brown was forced out of the position after a spate of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures." He was hired at FEMA by an old college friend.
Andrew Sullivan has repeatedly argued that the greatest failing of the Bush administration is its competence, and this farce certainly backs up that argument. How can a guy who got fired from a job running horse shows possibly become the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, especially in a post-9/11 world?
Paul O'Neill, the former Treasury secretary, argued in his book, The Price of Loyalty, that the Bush White House cared absolutely nothing about policy, because politics was all. Well, now we know the consequences of such disregard of the work of government.
And as I've mentioned before, if we can't control New Orleans, a relatively small city, in a time of crisis, how can we possibly maintain order in Iraq?
