"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Now, my resume may be full of gross exagerations, but I'm not applying to lead any Federal Agencies in charge of saving lives in desperate times.

Seemingly, though, I could.

"Brown's biography on the Federal Emergency Management Agency Web site says he had once served as an 'assistant city manager with emergency services oversight,' and a White House news release in 2001 said Brown had worked for the city of Edmond, Oklahoma in the 1970s 'overseeing the emergency-services division.'

However, a city spokeswoman told the magazine Brown had actually worked as 'an assistant to the city manager.'

'The assistant is more like an intern,' Claudia Deakins told the magazine. 'Department heads did not report to him.' "(FEMA director's qualifications questioned)

Let's pretend like he WASN'T "like an intern"; his prior experience (Which perenial dissapointment to the party, Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut called, " 'particularly useful for FEMA' during a hearing in 2002."['']) in "overseeing emergency services" was in fucking Edmond, Oklahoma, which, right now, has a population of 70,000.(Edmond, Oklahoma City Website)

And, of course, there's his comically infuriating last job (Besides working the 2000 Bush campaign): Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association.

Can you see it? I'm laughing with rage.

"Mike used to handle a lot of details. Every now and again I'd ask him to write me a speech. He was very loyal. He was always on time. He always had on a suit and a starched white shirt." Former Edmond city manager Bill Dashner, on Administrative Assistant Michael Brown, who worked for him while attending Central State University, Stanford of Central Oklahoma.

""Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." President George W. Bush, talking publically to a fellow government official, one idiot to another.

FEMA director's qualifications questioned