Frank Kalder
You are right. He was taken off the project, not all of FEMA. Obviously, he needs stronger representation, involvement, and presence to continue to be taken seriously. I found it most interesting this morning, that the biggest complaint was that he and other lawyers were mired in meanings of words in various acts and regulations, and that this is what bogged down action, more than anything else. The usually autocratic can-do style that Bush displays was delayed by this. Brown apparently did not understand that decisions about words' meanings were the most problematic. This while reality was hitting.
VA Allen seemed very knowledgeable in the interviews this morning.
I agree with your take on his participation in media coverage, but it is apparently an attempt to withdraw him from national and local scrutiny as well. In fact, as of last Friday meeting, I thought FEMA was making every effort not to participate in coverage. Or, I thought I read somewhere that there was a certain ban on coverage, anyway. They had to be at the table to protect concerns, but thought it inappropriate that there be coverage. CNN took them to court, and Bush apparently relented only yesterday.
That's quite interesting. In interviews with the New Orleans mayor this morning, he admitted that he and the president had reached rapprochement. Government officials need to learn that they don't know everything. And the public needs to learn this as well.
It's a Russian word for a house on stilts. It's not an acronym. Something like what Baba Yaga the witch of folklore lives in, except the stilts wouldn't be chicken legs.
mk5000
"the belief that at the heart of Kashmiri culture there was a common bond that transcended all other differences."--shalimar the clown, salman rushdie
