“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
That’s a phrase that has haunted Republicans for years. President George W. Bush naïvely praised his Federal Emergency Management Agency director, Michael Brown, as the federal response to Hurricane Katrina began.
Days later, more than 1,000 Americans had lost their lives in the flooding. Brown lost his job because of the Bush Administration’s botched response to the emergency.
Dubya’s praise for his star-crossed FEMA director became a catchphrase for Democrats eager to elect a Democrat to the White House in 2008. It was a catchphrase, too, for fed-up Republicans who sensed that the Bush 43 administration wasn’t just bad at responding to disasters. The Dubya Administration had become a disaster in itself.
“Heckuva job Brownie” was a meme before there were memes.
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(1) The Time Has Come to ARM (Or how to make a bad situation worse)
(2) If You Really Believe Black Lives Matter, Stop Supporting BLM
(3) Joe Biden delays VP pick again: A secret civil war among Democrats?
(4) Saddled with Biden, the DNC must rely on bait and switch to win
