MSNBC LIVE VOTE - Brownie Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: is it enough?

[helderheid]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough?

HELL NO it's not enough!!!

edited because I mixed up my corporate media

[Bumblebee]

1. MSNBC, not CNN :)

[cynatnite]

2. FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough?

That's what it says. It's a bullshit question.

[Walt Starr]

3. WRTONG POLL!!!! VOTE NO ON THE POLL LINKED ABOVEEE

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 1488 responses

The answer is NO!!!!

[cynatnite]

5. on edit: Yeah, what Walt said

:)

[warmonger123]

4. Read the question carefully.

It's a trick question. You gotta click "No" if you think he should be "fired". Sneaky fucks at CNN.

[warmonger123]

10. What he said. Not CNN, (they still suck) but MSNBC ( sucks even more)

[lady lib]

Good point warmonger. Answer "NO."

The question is worded poorly.

[justiceischeap]

6. Yes 57% No 43%

[OhioChick]

7. Done............ needs help n/t

[patrice]

8. 56%:44%

Yes:No

[Janice325]

9. Kick

It's now 56% to 44%.
I think that poll needs lots of help from us.

[rodeodance]

14. No 45% 3326 responses needs LOTS of DU help

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 3326 responses
Yes
55% No 45%
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[Greybnk48]

11. done, still needs help

[Imagevision]

41. Do you want to continue paying Brown for his services? I don't

"you're fired" could not be be anymore appropriate for this failed employee!

[derby378]

12. It's being FReeped

55% Y, 45% N. Not good enough. We want him thrown out on his ass, plain and simple.

[Justyce]

13. Wish they had one for

Bush being fired too... they've managed to divert attention away from Bush's failure as the one with the ultimate authority over the situation. I want them both gone (and a few others too...) :(

[Journeyman]

15. If he can't do the major part of his job. . .

why should he remain, pushing papers and collecting that fat paycheck?

[rodeodance]

17. from the website--brown says PRESS made him a scrapecoat-NOT jr.!

Brown will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, who earlier this week was named his deputy to oversee relief and rescue efforts.

Asked if he was being made a scapegoat for a federal relief effort that has drawn widespread and sharp criticism, Brown told The Associated Press after a long pause: "By the press, yes. By the president, no."

Brown is being sent back to Washington from Baton Rouge, La. He was the primary official overseeing the federal government's response to the disaster.

Time magazine on Friday reported that Brown’s official biography overstated his emergency-management experience.

[rodeodance]

19. he is right. as Brown is STILL the Director of FEMA!

[demo dutch]

50. How obsurd! Brownie doesn't realize he did anything wrong!

Just as clueless as his boss!

[shanti]

57. are you kidding?

they will NEVER admit anything!

[LibinMo]

16. Done

3656 responses
Yes 53% No 47%

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. Done! 47% Yes, 53% NO!!!!!!!!!!

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 4616 responses


Yes
47% No
53%

[proud patriot]

18. glad to help n/t

[crispini]

20. .

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 4616 responses
Yes 47% No 53%

[cmd]

21. Done

[rodeodance]

25. No 55% 4919 responses hey we are going good. keep it up folks.

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 4919 responses
Yes 45% No 55%
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[helderheid]

23. YOU ALL ROCK

Yes
44% No
56%

[maine_raptor]

24. Done 44% Yes - 56% No

[rodeodance]

26. recommended

[rodeodance]

27. kick

[rodeodance]

31. 6362 responses No 61%

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 6362 responses
Yes 39% No 61%

[helderheid]

30. thanks for the recommend!

[elehhhhna]

28. 39/61 NO!

[SeattleGirl]

29. Done. 39% yes, 61% no!

[rodeodance]

32. sending brownie back to his desk job is just a start!

[rodeodance]

34. keep voting folks

7011 responses
Yes
37% No
63%

[txaslftist]

33. buh bye!

[writes2000]

35. done

[rodeodance]

37. 7728 responses No 65% keep going folks

7728 responses
Yes
35% No 65%

[Mr Rabble]

36. done. 65% no.

[rodeodance]

38. kick

[oasis]

39. "You're doing a good job Brownie". Let's hear that again, Kyra Phillips.

[Der Blaue Engel]

40. 67% no

Done and kicked

[rosesaylavee]

42. Enough of what? Another stupid polling question.

8679 responses


Yes 33%
No 67%

:eyes:

[Immad2]

43. Done

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 9139 responses

Yes
32%

No
68%

[rodeodance]

45. No 68% 9377 responses (it is implied that people want heads to roll).

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 9377 responses
Yes
32% No 68%

[Wordie]

53. kick

[TheCowsCameHome]

44. 32% Yes - 68% NO

Lovin' this.................

[ourbluenation]

46. Done 31/69...NO!

I'm not sure why how helpful these polls are, but anyways...there you go.

[demo dutch]

47. 70% No - 30% Yes

[helderheid]

48. excellent!

[rodeodance]

49. this should tell the press to keep doing their jobs!

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 10973 responses
Yes
30% No
70%

[rodeodance]

51. 71% say NO to -- Is it enough? * 11605 responses

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 11605 responses
Yes
29% No 71%

[rodeodance]

52. kick

[rodeodance]

54. 12222 responses No 72% we ARE making a difference.

12222 responses
Yes
28% No 72%

[highplainsdem]

55. 72% No

[me b zola]

56. Hell no! Impeach them all!!!

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 11186 responses


Yes........30%

No.........70%

[rodeodance]

59. he blames the press --not bush. Sad, but this is true--it is Bush who

should have made this move last week.

.Asked if he was being made a scapegoat for a federal relief effort that has drawn widespread and sharp criticism, Brown told The Associated Press after a long pause: "By the press, yes. By the president, no."

[Douglas Carpenter]

58. done and kick and recommended

[arikara]

60. 72 no

nt

[electropop]

61. done: 72% NO nt

[Kota]

62. 73% no

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

63. 13,243 responses, 72% NO

took the poll at 3:00 PM on Sept 9 --

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 13243 responses


Yes 28%
No 72%

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[barb162]

64. no is now 73%

[rodeodance]

65. No 73% 13643 responses

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 13643 responses
Yes
27% No 73%

[rodeodance]

66. kick keep it up folks

[rodeodance]

68. wonder what msnbc thinks---

[Mutley]

67. No way. But it's a start.

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 14804 responses
Yes
26%
No
74%

[rodeodance]

71. Brown is still Director of FEMA--this is unexceptable!

[Mutley]

74. Still?

Damnit! I just woke up! What happened?!?!

[alcibiades_mystery]

80. "Unacceptable"

Just making sure you don't get trounced for that in debate on other boards. :-)

[SofaKingLiberal]

69. No 73%, Is that enough? Is that suppose to be a joke?

[paula777]

70. 74% say it's not enough. Cool

[rodeodance]

73. Bush thinks he made a cool move today. I hope the press continues to

hound this story till brown is out on his butt--and a few of his workers with him.

[truedelphi]

72. Not ENOUGH!!

What I am writing to MSM today:
To me, as a reporter for the Coastal Post, (www.coastalpost.com) reading my copious emails of Aug 31 to Sept 4th, this past week has plunged so many of us into despair.

To think that in 1948 our nation rescued the beleagured city of Berlin, Germany by employing an air drop of supplies, and food
and medicine, thus saving Berlin from Communism.

But the Bush administration's relief agencies could only come up with convoys of trucks that set out days too late and then SLOWLY
made their way through wind-shield wiper deep waters.

FEMA turned back dozens of offers of aid, including a massive relief effort sponsored by the City of Chicago, and offered by the
mayor of Chicago.

What is going on? So the administration will neither help victims in an area that is mostly Democratic voters - and they will not accept aid from a city that is mostly Democratic voters?

Or is it worse? Is it the "g" word. Is it genocide?

Can you imagine if a disaster struck say, Paris, France, our new enemy now that it has not helped with the Iraqi war. If that city was flooded, and no aid went to the Moslem or African immigrants? If TV newsreel after TV newsreel showed women with dark skin, stretching out their free arms, begging for drinking water, while holding their infants in their other arms?

What would American newscasters say about that? I bet they'd be BEING TOLD to use the "g" word.

So why aren't the media saying the obvious about the here and now. Why aren't they saying, no, SCREAMING!! That something is
miserably WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Or is it that the media are being told to say nothing??

Clinton left this country with working agencies - and he did not even have the benefit of ALL the Homeland Security funding. These
monies supposedly have been taken from us tax payers to boost our chances of dealing with disaster. (This transfer of funding leaves many local programs bankrupt - the list includes transportation districts, schools, libraries, police and fire departments, etc. And perhaps in a year or two we will find another IOU to explain that the Social Secuirity money was borrowed for Homeland Security programs.)So what gives?

It is not only Brown who should be leaving the government. It is the MAN himself.

And he needs to accept Cheney's resignation at the same moment that he offers the nation his.

Carol Sterritt

[Blue_In_AK]

75. I'm glad to see the results have changed quite a bit

since I voted.

[jhain]

76. hell no- I'm still paying the creep! n/t

[Pastiche423]

77. 74% - NO

[Raksha]

78. Done! Yes - 26% No - 74% n/t

[Oreo]

79. Enjoy that margarita Brownie... people are dead because of you

"I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife and, maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep. And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims," Brown said.

[Barack_America]

81. OH....HELL....NO!!!

Man, how stupid do these people think we are anyway?

[rodeodance]

82. here is the margarita quote.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168915,00.html

In an earlier telephone interview with The Associated Press, Brown said the move was not a demotion and that Chertoff made the call.

"I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife and, maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep. And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims," Brown said. "This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit and now we have to help these victims.

"That's all I've wanted to do," Brown added.

Lawmakers React

"At last President Bush has recognized what I have been saying for more than a week -- the federal response to this disaster must be managed by a capable leader," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said in a statement Friday. "Admiral Allen is an emergency response professional, which has been lacking from federal management of this crisis. Admiral Allen has a difficult job ahead, but at least he brings to it years of experience."

[rodeodance]

83. "Chertoff made the call." says Brown

[Kurovski]

84. Cafferty on The situation Room (CNN) says about this question:

"Should Brownie be fired? Duh!, The guy's an embarrassment."

Cafferty is a member of the media who busted through the spin in a way that should make O'Reilly sit in the corner, sucking on a tear-marinated lolly.

O'Reilly, another of this era's embarrassments.

[mzmolly]

85. He needs to be "relieved of his duties" period.

!!

[centristo]

86. why would anyone vote yes on this? nt

[mzmolly]

87. 18,507 responses 76% NO!

It's not enough !!!

[AirmensMom]

88. Done

19021 responses, 76% No.

[BrightKnight]

89. done -n/t

[rocktivity]

90. I wrote in that a count of criminally negligent homicide

for every SuperDome/convention center death would be enough.

:headbang:
rocknation

[veness]

91. Done. 26412 Responses. No 78%. n/t

[SlipperySlope]

92. Woop!!!

Browns going DOWN!

[Debi]

93. now it's 79% NO

I also posted a quick comment that football coaches who pad their resumes get fired....but not the head of Federal Emergency Management? WTF?

[dave502d]

94. Done.

FEMA Chief Mike Brown Relieved Of His Katrina Duties: Is it enough? * 32525 responses



21% Yes
79% No

[patdem]

95. No now 80%...ain't looking good for bush** or brown! n/t

[IndyOp]

96. I just wish the poll would allow me to elaborate:

What would be enough?

THE WHOLE F*'ING ADMINISTRATION RESIGNS.

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[Califooyah Operative]

97. done. nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

98. End the spin against local & state government.

If we're to get out of this mess, the buck must stop on the commander in chief's desk. Only then will he become a real leader when he takes responsibility and actually fixes something in this country, instead of continually profitting from his incompetence.

[strategery blunder]

99. Heh heh

41414 responses
Yes 19%
No 81%

[callous taoboy]

100. FUCK no!

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[WhiteTara]

101. up to 81%

:kick:

[Douglas Carpenter]

102. 81% no

[6000eliot]

103. No 81%