Chimpy FIRED Flood Control Expert in 2002 Who Warned of Impact

[MrBenchley]

March 7, 2002: "The assistant secretary of the Army, Mississippi's former U.S. Rep. Mike Parker, was forced out Wednesday after he criticized the Bush administration's proposed spending cuts on Army Corps of Engineers' water projects, members of Congress said.
"Apparently he was asked to resign," said U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the House Appropriations Committee's energy and water development subcommittee that oversees the corps' budget.
...Parker earned the ire of administration officials when he questioned Bush's planned budget cuts for the corps, including two controversial Mississippi projects.
"I think he was fired for being too honest and not loyal enough to the president," said lobbyist Colin Bell, who represents communities with corps-funded projects.
Bell said Parker resigned about noon after being given about 30 minutes to choose between resigning or being fired. "

http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0203/07/m05.html

[speedoo]

1. kick.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. kick

[MsUSA]

3. Can't we blast this to the media???

kick

[MrBenchley]

5. Feel free....and use the phrase "criminally neglgient homicide"

when you do.

[raccoon]

4. Why doesn't this surprise me?

"I think he was fired for being too honest and not loyal enough to the president.."

NOT LOYAL ENOUGH??? NOT FRICKING LOYAL ENOUGH???

In other words, not telling Der Chimpenfuehrer what he wanted to hear.

[MrBenchley]

6. That's our Religious Reich: Honesty is a SIN

[MissMarple]

7. I guess Parker wouldn't check out of the reality hotel.

These people knew New Orleans was in jeopardy. They just thought they had control of the spin and could create an alternate happy land for folks to believe in.

[wyldwolf]

8. who were the environmental groups ....?

Parker's nomination to head the corps drew heavy criticism last year from environmental groups pushing to downsize the agency, calling its flood control projects too costly and destructive.

While I strongly agree that Bush is very complicit, this article could also be used to paint the left as being shortsighted as well.

I'm just saying I know how the right spins things.

[Mr Rabble]

9. kick. nt

[BrewerJohn]

10. Great find!

Here's the fifth vote for the front page.

[mikelewis]

11. I think this was the same guy on MSNBC about a half hour ago...

he didn't blame Bush, he said that the OMB and the Congress was to blame. He completely denied any culpability on Bush's part. He said that infrastructure was handed down from previous administrations. It looks like he was specifically targeting the OMB.

[raccoon]

15. What's the OMB? nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Houston Chronicle predicted this in 2001 including NO refugees in Houston

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3335758

[MrBenchley]

13. Hell...the little claymation Mr Bill predicted it in an ad last year...

[OneTwentyoNine]

14. Why not? Bush shit canned the guy who gave realistic Iraq War costs...

And when you look back on the numbers he gave in 03 they were laughably low seeing how we've almost blown through 200 BILLION.

[reprehensor]

16. Bastard.

Total bastard.

[robbedvoter]

17. The August 6 memo!" Hurricane determined to strike in US"

Always the clear sign of depraved indiference.
W will be Saint Hurricane anyway by next week, don't worry.