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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Joe Lieberman should abolish himself:

In the news: (excerpts)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so fundamentally dysfunctional during Hurricane Katrina that Congress should abolish it and create a new disaster response agency from scratch, according to a draft of bipartisan recommendations proposed by a Senate committee.

Senator Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who is chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the new agency would be "better equipped with the tools to prepare for and respond to a disaster."

The committee's ranking Democrat, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, also endorsed creation of what would be called the National Preparedness and Response Authority.

Remember, it was Lieberman who chaired the committee that held hearings on Michael Brown's nomination in 2002 (pdf). Lieberman approved of Brown throughout the process. Now he wants to abolish an agency that worked well when properly managed and is moving to create yet another organization - much like his support for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, which was never a good idea.

posted by Quiddity at 4/27/2006 08:55:00 AM

2 comments

So should Feinstein...

By Anonymous, at 4/27/2006 11:12 AM

There are three major problems with FEMA:
1) Competent leadership was replaced with incompetent political cronies like Lieberman approved Brownie
2) By moving it under DHS, its primary mission was in conflict with DHS's primary mission. Terrorism is only one of the emergencies it has to deal with and historically the least important.
3) Chertoff, and the Bush Whitehouse didn't care what happened to New Orleans until it started to make them look bad.

As I understand the Senate Proposal, it is to replace FEMA with an Executive National Emergency Management Agency.

Cross posted to DailyKos

By Deep Trunk, at 4/27/2006 8:21 PM