What with the massive impact of Hurricane Harvey, the undeniable parallels to the current situation with Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, and how another incompetent President and his corrupt Administration handled its climate related twin, it was only inevitable that our half-competent media would ask history’s most famous and failed FEMA director his opinion on how to respond to Harvey.
And in the process, inevitably, the urgency of the situation and the superficiality of the press have given Brownie a pass on his failed tenure and his typically Republican, anti-government and anti-democratic views that are in plain sight.
The clueless Chuck Todd seems to have started the ball rolling, with a segment on MTP Daily:
TODD: Nice to see you. Look for better or for worse you became, a phase became -- I guess lives in infamy with you with President [George W.] Bush. You wrote an op-ed today I think a lot of people should read. Basically urging President Trump, I guess you're trying to have him not make the same mistakes President Bush did.
Brownie seems at least to acknowledge how badly they handled Katrina and its aftermath. But he doesn’t make the point to Chuck that he eagerly made before on his 850KPOA radio show in Denver a few years ago. And on that show Michael “Heckuva Job” Brownie said this about Americans working together, about true shared sacrifice and the role of government:
“We're not all in it together."
"They did it without you. And they did it without the Stupid Government."
That’s how Brownie really feels. He wants government to stand by as disasters happen, and he wants to outsource any good function of government to someone who can make a dollar from it, and he’ll answer any interview request from a clueless media who can’t be bothered to find out whether the deadly failures of someone like Michael Brown disqualify him as an expert on anything.