Brownie, stay out of Wichita

An Opinion Line contributor said he has been waiting for The Wichita Eagle to print Tom Brokaw’s derogatory remark about east Wichita on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Well, here it is, from the Dec. 25 show. You can decide how derogatory it is:
“There’s no way he (former FEMA director Michael Brown) should have had that job, Tim. He just — he simply was not prepared to have that job. Jamie Lee Witt, setting the politics aside, was one of the best appointments that Bill Clinton ever made. He went through Hurricane Andrew and they went through the California earthquakes. And I thought when he first came to Washington that he was probably just an Arkansas crony of the president’s. He was first-rate as a FEMA director. And ‘Good Job, Brownie’ will be, you know — President Bush will be living with that one for a long time. This guy wouldn’t have been, you know, a store manager for Wal-Mart in east Wichita.”
He has a point. The east-side Wal-Marts do seem to function quite a bit better than FEMA did after Hurricane Katrina.
Posted by Melissa Cooley

3 Comments

  1. Steven E.
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    Brownie,PLEASE come to the East Wichita WalMart. My reasoning:1) we tax-payers would save the $140K you’re still drawing at the teat of FEMA (he was demoted, but we’re still paying the same for him – last I knew)2) If there was ever a corporate culture in need of managers like you it is WalMart (a match made if Heaven, if you ask me)

  2. "Rage
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 11:39 am | Permalink

    Hehehe, good one, Steven!

    While I’m no fan of the Befanged Bentonville Business Breaker, I must note that Wal-mart was delivering water to dying people while Brownie was still trying to a get a table for dinner.

  3. mrcontroversy
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 12:19 pm | Permalink

    But what would Brownie do with the roof?