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Michael Brown Resigns

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Hurricane Katrina

With as much flack as I’ve given this guy in the past week, it still can’t be easy to be at the very heart of a controversy such as this.

Now he doesn’t have to really worry about it anymore.

From the SF Gate:

Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown said Monday he has resigned “in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president,” three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

Brown, under fire for FEMA’s performance in the Gulf Coast, said he feared he had become a distraction.

“The focus has got to be on FEMA, what the people are trying to do down there,” Brown told The Associated Press.

So what does Bush have to say about it?

The president ducked questions about Brown’s resignation. “Maybe you know something I don’t know. I’ve been working,” the president said to reporters on an inspection tour of damage in Gulfport, Miss. Bush said he planned to talk with Brown’s boss, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, from Air Force One on the flight back to Washington.

Somehow, that rings really false, but I’ll just roll with the punches on this one and try not to read too much into those comments.

Onward and upward.

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One Response to “Michael Brown Resigns”

Meredith Says:
September 13th, 2005 at 11:00 am
I watched these interviews with Bush last night on PBS. It looked even worse on TV than it sounds just by reading it. He acted like he knew nothing about the resignation or who was going to replace him. He just kept saying that he “was working,” like a broken record/robot. I also found him to be quite defensive and resembling a petulent child. OK, maybe we already know that Bush isn’t the most eloquent speaker in the world, but that was just ridiculous.

I think the most disappointing thing is that he just started his 2nd 4-year term, which I fear is going to seem like an eternity. Ugh.

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