# Brown's gotta get fired right? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 9, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796 "2005-09-09T11:39:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/61 "2005-09-09T17:56:44Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > So instead of “restoring honor and dignity to the White House” we got Tammany Hall? Ooo, nice. There’s a historical reference that deserves forceful resurrection. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/62 "2005-09-09T17:56:54Z")
A Breaking News story on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com): "Embattled FEMA Director Michael Brown is being sent back to Washington and a new leader has been picked to handle on-site Hurricane Katrina relief operations, a senior administration official tells CNN. " Done. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/63 "2005-09-09T18:03:30Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Done. Well, sorta. He has merely been “sent back to Washington”. _Hopefully_, this is a prelude to remove the wanker from office, but I won’t believe it until I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/64 "2005-09-09T18:05:50Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > He has merely been “sent back to Washington”. To supervise. With any luck, he’ll be supervising the signing of an already prepared resignation letter. He’ll walk into his office, and his desk will be completely empty except for this letter sitting on it. Or maybe a revolver with one bullet in it. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/65 "2005-09-09T18:07:57Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Or maybe a revolver with one bullet in it. Whatever. Naw, they’d leave it fully loaded, expecting him to miss the first few times. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/66 "2005-09-09T18:09:02Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > A Breaking News story on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com): > > "Embattled FEMA Director Michael Brown is being sent back to Washington and a new leader has been picked to handle on-site Hurricane Katrina relief operations, a senior administration official tells CNN. " > > Done. Sounds like someone is playing the blame game. I had it on pretty good authority (Scotty C) that this administration does that. And I have it on pretty bad authority (various SDMB jackasses) that now is not the time or the place. I don’t know what I’m supposed to think! I hope someone isn’t flip-flopping. That’d be almost Kerry-ish. Our Fearless Leader wouldn’t that. Michael Brown must be returning so he can resign of his own volition because he’s failed his Lord and Master. There’s no other explanation. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/67 "2005-09-09T18:17:56Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Sounds like someone is playing the blame game. I had it on pretty good authority (Scotty C) that this administration does that. And I have it on pretty bad authority (various SDMB jackasses) that now is not the time or the place. No, no. It is no acknowledgement of anything in regards to Katrina. This administration values honesty and integrity so greatly that it has to let him go after finding out that he lied on his resume. See how easy this is? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/68 "2005-09-09T18:19:49Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Naw, they’d leave it fully loaded, expecting him to miss the first few times. Plus, it’ll be five days before he starts trying to shoot. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/69 "2005-09-09T18:28:21Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I mean, they gotta fire somebody over some fuck up someday, right? [What fuck up?](http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007070.php) > [@](#): > > At a news conference, [Nancy] Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush’s choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had “absolutely no credentials.” > > She related that she had urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Michael Brown. > > “He said ‘Why would I do that?’” Pelosi said. > > “‘I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn’t go right last week.’ And he said ‘What didn’t go right?’” ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/70 "2005-09-09T18:29:28Z")
No doubt that letter of resignation has an “old boys’ network” proviso, whereby Brown can be placed into another government job for which he is equally unqualified. Hey you can’t forget your friends right? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/71 "2005-09-09T18:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > At a news conference, [Nancy] Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush’s choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had “absolutely no credentials.” > > She related that she had urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Michael Brown. > > “He said ‘Why would I do that?’” Pelosi said. > > “‘I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn’t go right last week.’ And he said ‘What didn’t go right?’” WTF??? ---
**Author:** ![lostronin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@lostronin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lostronin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/72 "2005-09-09T18:36:37Z")
Well according this this article the no good bastard has finally bit the dust. [http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-8/112628634337180.xml&storylist=](http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-8/112628634337180.xml&storylist=) For no better reason than he gets shit done I wish Lt. General Honore had gotten the job… ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/73 "2005-09-09T18:37:24Z")
From the more spin zone: [Brown was leaving anyway.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050909/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_brown_15;_ylt=AqJYuurAkYPbyZn8W.RqDDQbLisB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl) > [@](#): > > But a source close to Brown, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the FEMA director had been considering leaving after the hurricane season ended in November and that Friday’s action virtually assures his departure. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/74 "2005-09-09T18:47:42Z")
Sure he was planning on leaving. Yep. Hey, can I have the FEMA position? I’m at least as qualified as Brown. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/75 "2005-09-09T18:52:13Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Sure he was planning on leaving. Yep. > > Hey, can I have the FEMA position? I’m at least as qualified as Brown. So does an exceptional goldfish. The question is, have either you or the goldfish sucked the right dick? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/76 "2005-09-09T18:53:53Z")
Screw the FEMA position – too much opportunity for stress. How do I get that Horsey Job? You must rub some pretty big time elbows if you go from there to a top position in government! ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/77 "2005-09-09T18:57:10Z")
“But a source close to Brown, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the FEMA director had been considering leaving after the hurricane season ended in November and that Friday’s action virtually assures his departure.” I can see it now: Brown: Well, to tell you the truth, I was going to leave this year anyway, so no big deal. Reporter: Really? You expect the public to believe that? Brown: They will, if you don’t report that I said it. Just say it was an anonymous source. Reporter: Well, I don’t know… Brown: I’ll tell you what. (holds up his hand in a mouth shape and makes it “talk”) My good friend Mike Brown told me months ago he was thinking about leaving at the end of this year’s hurricane season. I am speaking on condition of anon, uh, anin, uh, don’t say who I am. Reporter: Good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/78 "2005-09-09T18:59:15Z")
> [@shelbo](#): > > You must rub some pretty big time elbows if you go from there to a top position in government! Rub? Yes. Elbows? Wrong body part. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/79 "2005-09-09T19:02:27Z")
> [@shelbo](#): > > How do I get that Horsey Job? [They](http://www.arabianhorses.org/default2.asp) only have openings for a Product Marketing Manager and a Registry Services Rep right now. On their front page is a mention of assisting equine and other animal victims of Katrina; not a word about Brown. (I used to drive very near there till my company moved - never knew it existed!) ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/80 "2005-09-09T19:04:39Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > So does an exceptional goldfish. > > The question is, have either you or the goldfish sucked the right dick? > > -Joe Look way up and you’ll see I already beat him to asking for the job :). Anyway, I haven’t sucked the right dick yet but point me in the right direction and I’ll get cracking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796.md?page=5)