{"id":838,"date":"2012-10-31T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/31\/heckuva-job-brownie"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T13:02:00","slug":"heckuva-job-brownie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Heckuva job, Brownie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/83076.html?hp=l4_b2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/83076.html?hp=l4_b2\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/83076.html?hp=l4_b2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The amount of nerve of some people in public life never ceases to amaze me.<\/p>\n<p>Take the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, for example. <\/p>\n<p>You remember Brown. He led FEMA\u2019s response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster and turned that response into a fiasco. President Bush famously said to him, \u201cYou\u2019re doing a heckuva job, Brownie.\u201d Turned out he wasn\u2019t doing such a heckuva job after all coordinating the response to the storm that nearly obliterated New Orleans, one of the world\u2019s great cities.<\/p>\n<p>He quit his FEMA job not long after Bush tossed the bouquet at him.<\/p>\n<p>Brownie now is telling the world that President Obama shouldn\u2019t have spoken so quickly about Hurricane Sandy, that he reacted too rapidly in getting federal relief efforts ready to respond.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who once said it is \u201cbetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Brownie should have remained silent.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/83076.html?hp=l4_b2 The amount of nerve of some people in public life never ceases to amaze me. Take the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, for example. You remember Brown. He led FEMA\u2019s response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster and turned that response into a fiasco. President Bush famously said to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heckuva job, Brownie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}