November 25, 2005

Heckuva Job Brownie Finds New Gig

I’m scared. Hold me. Former FEMA chief Michael “Heckuva job Brownie” Brown is starting a consulting firm on disaster preparedness.

"If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses — because that goes straight to the bottom line — then I hope I can help the country in some way," Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions. So this is his mea culpa? Give us more of what he screwed up in the first place?

Brown said officials need to "take inventory" of what's going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware. Uh-huh. We already knew that, Brownie. You, on the other hand, have evidently just figured this out.