FEMA hires Mike Brown as a consultant to evaluate the Hurricane Katrina response

[Gabu]

Whenever you bring someone in to evaluate how something is being done, it's always a good plan to ensure that that person has a very strong idea regarding what the right and wrong ways to do something are.

So, I have to ask: given that Brown resigned only a short while ago over a completely inept response to Katrina... how, exactly, is he now the authority on how a federal disaster response should proceed?

[Gabu]

The hurricanes in FL last year, for example.

But if he botched this one so amazingly badly that he felt it was prudent to completely resign, how does that make him apparently more qualified than anyone else to evaluate how someone else is doing the job he resigned from?

[Gabu]

The hurricanes in FL last year, for example.

But if he botched this one so amazingly badly that he felt it was prudent to completely resign, how does that make him apparently more qualified than anyone else to evaluate how someone else is doing the job he resigned from?

Oh, he got tired of being knocked around by the Press.  He could advise on what some of the problems are.

But, given that there are a hundred million other people they could have hired as a consultant, what makes him the most qualified person out of all of them?  I assume that he was, given that he was hired instead of anyone else.

At the very least, this is going to be a very bad move on the part of FEMA as far as publicity is concerned.  Given that he resigned only a short while ago, whether it was deserved or not, people are going to wonder what the heck he's doing back already.