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Surely the most unfortunate thing President Bush has said since the disaster of Hurricane Katrina is the now-famous compliment directed to then--Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.".(The Week)(Brief article)

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Surely the most unfortunate thing President Bush has said since the disaster of Hurricane Katrina is the now-famous compliment directed to then--Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." The president made the remark during a visit to Alabama on September 2, and even then, it was clear that Brown was not doing a heck of a job. Later, of course, that became overwhelmingly obvious, yet the White House, inexplicably, did not move quickly to sack Brown. First, it bobbled the matter, in effect demoting Brown by taking him off the Gulf assignment. Only later did it accept his ...

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