The NYT reports that while FEMA staff were desperately emailing Michael Brown about the situation in New Orleans he was more concerned about where he would eat dinner that night. After receiving emails detailing how conditions in the Superdome were rapidly deteriorating,

Brown's press secretary wrote colleagues to complain that the FEMA director needed more time to eat dinner at a Baton Rouge restaurant that evening. ''He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes,'' wrote Brown aide Sharon Worthy.

''We now have traffic to encounter to go to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you.''

Sure sounds like Brown et al really took things seriously and did their best. Why couldn't Brownie just order in some pizza or eat out of the vending machine? That after three days of being told that the medical staff at the Superdome was running out of oxygen for patients and that toliet paper was running low, Brownie's immediate staff was more concerned about where to eat dinner is just criminal. Just criminal.
posted by Idle Crank at 10/20/2005 05:25:00 PM