Un-flipping-believable
In a move I find difficult to believe, FEMA has rehired Michael Brown, a.k.a. "Brownie", of "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!" fame, as a consultant, reportedly a paid consultant. In what capacity? CBS reports:
Wouldn't everyone love to get fired for screwing up at work - and then get rehired to rehash the screw-up? I know I would. At least the rehiring part...
(CBS) — CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that Michael Brown, who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has been rehired by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it's response following Hurricane Katrina.I really don't know why FEMA needs to pay Michael Brown to tell them what all of America already knows about FEMA's "response following Hurricane Katrina" - under Brown's leadership. The response sucked. Do I get hired as a contractor by FEMA for that opinion?
Wouldn't everyone love to get fired for screwing up at work - and then get rehired to rehash the screw-up? I know I would. At least the rehiring part...
posted by orthomom at 11:24 PM
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I don't understand. Haven't we agreed it was all Mayor Nagin's fault? :)
Oh yeah. Let me add a picture of buses to the post...that aways works!
"to evaluate it's response following Hurricane Katrina."
Well at least that's something he has first-hand knowledge of.
Ya never know... all those crappy catchers in baseball make great managers, so maybe they'll get lucky!
I think you, shleppy, don't understand FEMA's role. You may have a theory about what an organizaton like FEMA is supposed to do, and according to your theory they may have done a good job. However, based on the agency's actual mandate, as defined by Congress, they did a crap job.
How Brown can ACCEPT the post is even more unbelievable!
I'd want to get as far as possible from all matters of politics and/or flooding as I could if it was me.
This makes perfect sense to me. Clearly the President's intent was to give good-paying jobs to cronies, donors, loyalists, etc. Putting Brown in a job of import (i.e., FEMA chief) was a big mistake. Hiring him as a "paid consultant" (wink) is a much more reasonable way to reward insiders without letting it hurt governmental performance.
The next logical step is creation of an Office of No-Show Jobs somewhere within the Federal bureaucracy. In NYS, they have the Thruway Authority, the Erie Canal Authority, etc., for just such a purpose. Of course, with GWB, we'd have to call it a "No Show Job Enterprise Zone."
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