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With the hurricane season only two months away, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still doesn’t have a director. The Bush administration has courted at least seven potential FEMA leaders, since the resignation of Michael Brown after Hurricane Katrina, but they all said ‘No’.
Today, the White House appealed directly to the public to nominate a new FEMA director.
If you know someone who would like to take personal responsibility for the ignorant behavior of every single human during the next hurricane, flood, fire or WMD attack, please submit that name to disastercareer@FEMA.gov.
If your nominee gets appointed as FEMA director, the White House will send you a box of dehydrated milk and a delicious ‘Heck-of-a-job Brownie’ from Chocolate Town Bakery in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Near London, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was greeted with jeers, chanting protestors and t-shirt slogans critical of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy.
During a speech Rice said she was not bothered by the people who passionately believe that it was wrong to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein.
“I welcome this expression of free speech,” she said.
Rice was so cordial, she invited all the protestors to join her after the speech for a nostalgic turn-back-the-clock party where they could enjoy the kind of hospitality that Saddam gave to protestors during his reign.
In New York City yesterday, thousands of undocumented protestors turned out to voice their opposition to a bill, passed by the House, that would make illegal immigration illegal. New York City police arrested them, put them on ships, and sent them back to their countries of origin.
President Bush has been taking making more unscripted remarks and taking questions from unscreened people at public events as part of a new White House strategy to portray the president as a regular guy.
With his polling numbers in the basement, the White House communications office decided it was time to “let Bush be Bush.” The president seems looser and more at ease with just being himself, a character he says is less complex and challenging than his recent roles as the voices of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.
In addition, the president enjoys speaking without script or teleprompter, because, he said, “Now, I don’t have to think about the punctuation.”
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