March 3 (Bloomberg) -- We got it all wrong, and by we I mean everyone except President George W. Bush. By comparison to other public officials on the job -- or not -- during Hurricane Katrina, Brownie did do a heckuva job.
It turns out that of all the officials at the Department of Homeland Security, it was Michael Brown, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief, who warned how bad the storm would be, that red tape would have to be cut to get enough equipment and manpower to the scene. Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff is the dolt who didn't have a clue and flew off to Atlanta for a conference on bird flu, a problem for sure, but not one about to kill 1,300 people.
This role-reversal comes through on a tape released on March 1 by the Associated Press that is must-see cinema verite. With the bad lighting and production values of a porn flick, it's a reminder of how packaged and coached the president usually is.
While his assessment of Brownie turns out to be better than we thought, the tape shows that his second-most memorable line during the hurricane, ``I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees,'' was dead wrong. Almost everyone did.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news...d=auW78vZgrPVU
It turns out that of all the officials at the Department of Homeland Security, it was Michael Brown, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief, who warned how bad the storm would be, that red tape would have to be cut to get enough equipment and manpower to the scene. Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff is the dolt who didn't have a clue and flew off to Atlanta for a conference on bird flu, a problem for sure, but not one about to kill 1,300 people.
This role-reversal comes through on a tape released on March 1 by the Associated Press that is must-see cinema verite. With the bad lighting and production values of a porn flick, it's a reminder of how packaged and coached the president usually is.
While his assessment of Brownie turns out to be better than we thought, the tape shows that his second-most memorable line during the hurricane, ``I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees,'' was dead wrong. Almost everyone did.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news...d=auW78vZgrPVU
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