Guess who just got a job as a FEMA consultant?

[Boris Godunov]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

And, that's when it was revealed that FEMA had apparently rehired a former employee as a consultant. You might recognize his name, too — Mike Brown.

At a meeting with staff of the special House committee looking into Katrina preparations today, the disgraced and displaced former FEMA director said he had rejoined the agency as a consultant to "provide a review" of how the agency functioned before, during, and after the storm. This according to two congressional sources.

A congressional aide told NBC News nobody's sure — but it is assumed Brown is being paid by FEMA. He is to testify tomorrow before that House committee, prompting our colleague Howard Fineman to joke that only in Washington would a man on his way to the electric chair be paid to belt himself in.

Un****ingbelievable.

[mrboo123]

for ****s sakes, the idiot is back...

[Q Classic]

At least he didn't get a medal.

[Az]

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Here's to hoping you'll get your **** back together, some day .

[Pekka]

how is this even possible? I know. They are so up your face, that people just don't believe how up your face they really are so it just.. goes by..

what is funny now is that he can't be directly blamed after his next **** up. Priceless arrengement What did he do to deserve this?

This can be only topped if he gets paid more now than before.

[Datajack Franit]

[Berzerker]

The guy wont answer congressional oversight questions about what happened without being paid? He's lucky he isn't being brought up on charges for mass incompetence leading to people's deaths. Oops, that would set a terrifying precedent for politicians and bureaucrats.

[ixnay]

Maybe they're just hiring him so that they can bounce hypothetical disaster scenarios off of him and then write down the opposite of whatever he says to formulate response plans.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by ixnay
Maybe they're just hiring him so that they can bounce hypothetical disaster scenarios off of him and then write down the opposite of whatever he says to formulate response plans.

ixnay

[MrFun]

[joncha]

[Theben]

Not that I don't enjoy U.S. politicans ability to adapt and survive in the D.C.verse at the expense of normal citizens, but didn't Brown do a good job handling the Florida hurricanes last year? And wasn't he hampered with FEMA being subordinated to Homeland Security wrt Katrina?

[Boris Godunov]

Brown had little to do with the success of relief efforts in Florida in 2004. That had much more to do with an administration desperately wanting to win Florida in an election year.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Kinda gives new meaning to the 80's action movie cliche, "Failure is not an option."

[Mr. Harley]

I've stated that this is the most corrupt administration since the Taft administration. I am now beginning to wonder if they have even exceeded that - I do not believe the term "shame" is in their lexicon.