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Originally Posted by smooth
Raveneye is talking about something else.
The point you quoted him on, and the reason why his point is Bush's fault, is because President Bush placed those persons in FEMA. He made those appointments. He did it on his own. He is personally responsible for revamping the organization.
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From what I have heard, when Brown first joined FEMA, he was appointed as deputy director by Bush (whatever the title was, it was a deputy position). It appears that he was unqualified and should have never been appointed, BUT he did go through a senate confirmation. Only 4 senators showed up for the confirmation. It took 5 minutes.
Sen. Lieberman was on NPR this morning talking about the confirmation process for appointments. He said that the Senate usually figures the president has done a proper selection and confirms appointments without really looking at the candidates. He said that when FEMA was placed under Homeland Security, it was decided that individuals who had already been confirmed in the senate for doing similar jobs did not need to be confirmed when moving to a new job. So, when Brown was promoted to head of FEMA there was no Senate confirmation.
Although I don't know much about Brown, it seems that he should have never been appointed. He also should not have made it past Senate confirmation.