Congressman, Ex-FEMA Chief Brown Squabble (Taylor -D- rips him)

[Rose Siding]

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In a Playboy magazine interview, the fallen Federal Emergency Management Agency chief took issue with Taylor for harshly questioning him during a hearing into the government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina last year.

"He said I didn't recognize the death and suffering that was going on," Brown said of Taylor.

"For that little twerp to claim I didn't recognize death and suffering _ he can just bite me, for all I care," Brown told Playboy.

Taylor, one of the few Democrats to sit on the Republican-dominated House inquiry, returned fire Thursday.

"Brown should consider himself a lucky man," he said in a statement. "Had I known before the hearing that he was up in Baton Rouge ordering steaks on his government credit card at the same time the people of South Mississippi were resorting to police-sanctioned looting to feed themselves, I would have done more than just verbally kick his butt."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701441.html

[MadMaddie]

1. Wow...Brownie is awfully bold for being a total fuckup....

This is what the Repugs do they talk shit but when it comes to face to face confrontation their sissies....

[jobycom]

2. Thank you, Gene. I would have gladly held your cloak for that match.

[Moderator]

3. kick

[Maddy McCall]

4. Ex-FEMA head and Mississippi congressman trade barbs

By Jerry Mitchell
[e-mail]


Former Federal Emergency Management Agency head Michael Brown is calling U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor (D.) “a little twerp” in a new interview. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Taylor criticized Brown’s inability to relate to the devastation suffering by Mississippians and others on the Gulf Coast.

Playboy magazine has released excerpts from that interview, quoting Brown as saying of Taylor: “That congressman, that little twerp, said I didn’t understand suffering. He said I didn’t understand the death and suffering that was going on. As I told him, I’ve seen death and suffering. I’ve smelled death.

“I smelled death in the tsunami. I know what it’s like to lose close friends in disasters. You don’t know how many people I’ve hugged as FEMA director — rich people, poor people, all ethnicities, people who lost everything. People who didn’t think it was going to happen to them. For that little twerp to claim I didn’t understand death and suffering — he can just bite me, for all I care.”

Taylor responded today with a few shots of his own at Brown:

“Michael Brown should consider himself a lucky man. Had I known before the hearing that he was up in Baton Rouge ordering steaks on his government credit card at the same time the people of South Mississippi were resorting to police-sanctioned looting to feed themselves, I would have done more than just verbally kick his butt. Brown is an incompetent fool, and everyone in south Mississippi knows it.”

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060727/NEWS/60727013

More from Brown at the Sun Herald:

Main bout: Fool vs. Twerp
Brown, Taylor take gloves off

By MARIA RECIO
SUN HERALD WASHINGTON BUREAU

In terms of settling scores, Brown doesn't mince words, not even concerning President Bush.

Asked about Bush turning to him during his first visit to the region and saying the widely ridiculed, "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job," Brown said, "That didn't mean anything to me. It's typical of the president. He's a cheerleader. You know what that comment did? How many people in the world do you think have ever called me Brownie? His name's George W. Bush. "

Brown, who was forced to resign, also said he thought of quitting after the first few days of the disaster. "But then I thought, People are dying, people are suffering; I can't leave. It was a no-win situation. So I truly had to be the scapegoat."

Brown is still angry about the release of his e-mails by Congress, which he said everyone "was taking out of context."

"I must have had 100,000 e-mails, and they selectively released ones that made me look bad. Do you remember the famous one about being a fashion god?"

More at: http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/15141798.htm

[Hekate]

5. C'mon, Brownie, you can do better than call * "a cheerleader"!

Tell us what you really think! :-)

Hekate

[murielm99]

6. Every time this man opens his mouth,

he proves how stupid he is. My brothers and I would engage in that kind of name-calling when we were in junior high. He sounds like a whiny, spoiled brat.

Steaks. Fashion god. There is a special place in hell for you, Brownie.

[Maddy McCall]

9. Hear, hear, muriel.

:thumbsup:

[Selatius]

7. The simple fact is FEMA under Bush was still horrible

If the Republican talking point that states are primarily responsible for disaster recovery and relief are true, then I would say that fucking corporate whore Gov. Haley Barbour, one of the cheerleaders for NAFTA, is a piss-poor Republican by that standard.

I'm speaking with the kind of conviction that any Mississippian would have who lives on the coast, and I do live here on the coast. People get pissed when hundreds of fellow family members, neighbors, and friends die down here.

[Maddy McCall]

11. ...

:hug:

I need to make a run to the coast soon.

[Syrinx]

8. hey, Maddy, what do you think of Congressman Taylor?

He seems pretty decent to me, but I admit I have a pretty tough job just keeping my eye on my own bunch of idiots. :D

From what I've seen on C-SPAN and stuff, Gene Taylor seems pretty good.

:hi: by the way!

edit: "think" instead of "thing."

[Maddy McCall]

10. Hey, syrinx!

I like him. He proved his mettle after Katrina.

He's been consistent in his criticism of Bush and FEMA.

He's a yellow dog, for sure, but I like the guy. Better than having Chip Pickering.

:hi:

[Syrinx]

12. I like him them!

If he has your seal of approval he's okay by me. :)

[Maddy McCall]

13. How you been?

Hot summer, huh. Too hot to fish...but just right for cold beer.

:hi:

[Syrinx]

14. hot enough to misspell simple words. :)

Yep, it's hot. No hurricanes so far. That's about the only trend I hope continues.

I don't guess I've been fishing since I was about 15. But if you want to go fishing, I could get us some licenses!

[Judi Lynn]

15. Congressman in 'twerp' war with ex-Katrina disaster chief

Congressman in 'twerp' war with ex-Katrina disaster chief

28/07/2006 - 9:17:16 AM

A Congressman has hit back at former US disaster agency chief Michael Brown in an astonishing war of words after being described as “that little twerp”.

“Brown is an incompetent fool, and everyone in South Mississippi knows it,” said Gene Taylor, a Democrat from Mississippi.

In a Playboy magazine interview, the fallen Federal Emergency Management Agency chief took issue with Taylor for harshly questioning him during a hearing into the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina last year.

“He said I didn’t recognise the death and suffering that was going on,” Brown said of Taylor. “For that little twerp to claim I didn’t recognise death and suffering – he can just bite me, for all I care,” Brown told Playboy.
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http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=190451266&p=y9x45y97z&n=190452026

[madeline_con]

16. "... he can just bite me..."

Proof he was a true professional.

Did anyone tell Brown we all saw the emails?

[Tellurian]

17. I think it was more than a few e-mails people heard about..

If memory serves, Brown was apprised by local officials 4 or 5 days in advance,
the levees would not hold. There were concerns what to do for the elderly confined
to nursing homes. No plans offered for bedridden hospital patients waiting to be
evacuated by rescue services. A whole parking lot of School busses hadn't been
move to higher ground, submerged in 10 feet of water.

Brown couldn't be found to coordinate fema services with state and municipal agencies.
His only communication with these agencies was through e-mails of a personal nature,
peppered with small talk unrelated to the ongoing chaos and discord caused by Katrina.
People were suffering and dying while Brown preoccupied himself as pr man for fema clueless
in disaster protocols unable to give direction or take command to actually help and assist
NOLA and MI victims.

Seems odd to place such an unqualified individual as the head of a strategic operation
expected to deal with even a minor disaster, just months before hurricane season was to begin.

Hi Maddy- Please say Hi to merh for me!