http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109345,00.html

Quote :

"The Bush Administration didn't invent cronyism; John F. Kennedy turned the Justice Department over to his brother, while Bill Clinton gave his most ambitious domestic policy initiative to his wife. Jimmy Carter made his old friend Bert Lance his budget director, only to see him hauled in front of the Senate to answer questions on his past banking practices in Georgia, and George H.W. Bush deposited so many friends at the Commerce Department that the agency was known internally as "Bush Gardens." The difference is that this Bush Administration had a plan from day one for remaking the bureaucracy, and has done so with greater success."

9/26/2005 4:56:55 PM

There is a Mike Brown for every job.

9/26/2005 10:42:32 PM

9/26/2005 10:55:13 PM

WHO MIKE BROWN

9/26/2005 10:57:36 PM

Fuck, our current president is one.

9/26/2005 11:54:05 PM

alberto gonzales
condileeza rice
paul wolfowitz
john bolton
gale norton
samuel bodman

just to name a few

9/27/2005 12:01:19 AM

<-- Mike Brown

9/27/2005 1:25:59 AM

The one thing you always hear about the Bush team's policy is that they value loyalty above anything else. IOW, they try as much as possible to staff every position with yes-men.

This was obviously the cause of the Iraq intelligence abomination, and this was a factor in the katrina fiasco.

9/27/2005 2:01:02 AM

They hired Mike Brown to investigate himself. I wonder how much he'll be paid.

Quote :

"At a meeting with staff of the special House committee looking into Katrina preparations today, the disgraced and displaced former FEMA director said he had rejoined the agency as a consultant to "provide a review" of how the agency functioned before, during, and after the storm. This according to two congressional sources."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

Quote :

"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 its response following Hurricane Katrina."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/22/national/main878583.shtml

9/27/2005 8:38:12 AM

Ahahahaha that's awesome.

9/27/2005 8:45:13 AM

where's the *slaps forehead* emoticon?

9/27/2005 11:28:30 AM

Quote :

"In part of his testimony, Brown pumped his hand up and down for emphasis."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/27/katrina.brown.ap/index.html

9/27/2005 11:37:08 AM

There is somewhat of a difference between hiring qualified cronies and unqualified cronies.

Robert Kennedy was certainly qualified. Hillary Clinton (as far as I know) wasn't hired, but rather put in charge of pushing some of Clinton's agenda. I don't care if Bush's campaign/PR/thugs/first lady are his cronies. I care about important gov't officials at least being qualified.


[Edited on September 27, 2005 at 11:50 AM. Reason : ?]

9/27/2005 11:43:50 AM

Quote :

""I've overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I'm doing, and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it," he said."

http://www.normantranscript.com/feeds/apcontent/apstories/apstorysection/D8CSOA580.xml.txt/resources_apstoryview

9/27/2005 9:16:01 PM