What say we return some COMPETENCE to government

When it became apparent that relief was not getting to the affected areas, Bush said, "this is unacceptable," went there himself (more than once), and fired the head of FEMA. Yet the liberal interpretation is that the relief effort was imperfect because Bush is indifferent to the plight the average man. You people are living in a fantasyland, and it will result in us taking the White House again in 2008.

Brandon9000 wrote:

When it became apparent that relief was not getting to the affected areas, Bush said, "this is unacceptable," went there himself (more than once), and fired the head of FEMA. Yet the liberal interpretation is that the relief effort was imperfect because Bush is indifferent to the plight the average man. You people are living in a fantasyland, and it will result in us taking the White House again in 2008.

Wow...talk about people who "live in fantasyland!!!!"

When it became apparent that relief was not getting to the affected areas, Bush said, "this is unacceptable," went there himself (more than once), and fired the head of FEMA. Yet the liberal interpretation is that the relief effort was imperfect because Bush is indifferent to the plight the average man. You people are living in a fantasyland, and it will result in us taking the White House again in 2008.

As the named author, I concur that competence was the issue.
Brandon, your "spin" on what actually happened was quite amusing. Last week the spin was "Its the fault of the state and locals" . Now with Brown gone, its suddenly become the entire idea of GWB to have fired him.The damage that was done to the city was mostly the result of inaction and bad leadership over the last number of years.
Then you start the name calling and follow that by accusing Frank of namecalling just because he merely repeted what your post said. Kinda weird logic there Brandon.

PS, Brandon, lets get these folks out of trouble and fix New Orleans before you try to raise political capital.
Therell be plenty of time to play the blame game later.

When it became apparent that relief was not getting to the affected areas, Bush said, "this is unacceptable," went there himself (more than once), and fired the head of FEMA. Yet the liberal interpretation is that the relief effort was imperfect because Bush is indifferent to the plight the average man. You people are living in a fantasyland, and it will result in us taking the White House again in 2008.

Brandon9000 wrote:

When it became apparent that relief was not getting to the affected areas, Bush said, "this is unacceptable," went there himself (more than once), and fired the head of FEMA. Yet the liberal interpretation is that the relief effort was imperfect because Bush is indifferent to the plight the average man. You people are living in a fantasyland, and it will result in us taking the White House again in 2008.

The only interpretation seems to be YOURS Brandon when you claim Bush FIRED the head of FEMA.. I would love to see your evidence of that. The news reports say Brown RESIGNED. Bush stated he had confidence in Brown.

Fantasyland would be your made up story about how Bush FIRED the head of FEMA.

Brandon, we will probably have a reasonable discussion again sometime, just not here. Im not going to be baited, even if you are a master .

Again, I want to thank you all for -- and, Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. The FEMA Director is working 24 -- (applause) -- they're working 24 hours a day.

MR. McCLELLAN: I've made it very clear -- and the President spoke about them last week, and his comments stand, in terms of what he has said about the great work that they have been doing round-the-clock, 24 hours a day, to help people on the ground. There are some in this room that want to continue to engage in that. We're going to continue to focus on solving problems and getting help to people on the ground.

If you all want to continue to engage in that, that's fine. But we appreciate the efforts of Secretary Chertoff, Undersecretary Brown, and all the others at FEMA and at the state and local level that are working round-the-clock to help the people in the region.

Thank you.

Q Has Mike Brown resigned?

MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry?

Q Has Mike Brown resigned?

MR. McCLELLAN: No.

Q Has the President asked for his resignation today?

MR. McCLELLAN: No.

Q Does the President have full faith and confidence in Mike Brown?

MR. McCLELLAN: Again, what we are continuing to do is to support those in the region who are carrying out the operational activities. We continue to appreciate the work of all those who have been working round-the-clock.

As I just mentioned, I think what you need to do is look at the overall situation. There are phases to this response effort, and we've been in immediate needs phase for some time here now, for just over a week now, focusing on the life-saving and life-sustaining missions. And Secretary Chertoff has continued to visit the region, continued to assess things. The President has continued to assess things. And Secretary Chertoff is the one who is overseeing all the operational aspects. And so he's the one who's making all the decisions about how to allocate resources and to allocate people. And we support the decisions that he makes.

Q But you're not answering the question, which is, does the President have confidence in Mike Brown?

MR. McCLELLAN: No, I think that's the way to address the overall question. We appreciate all those who are working round-the-clock, and that's the way I would answer it.