Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Painting a word picture

General Russell Honore, who headed up the recovery effort after Hurricane Katrina, painting a word picture last night on NPR:
Right now you've got FEMA sitting at the table, if I may use the analogy, as the great big want-to-be-helpful St. Bernard. But that St. Bernard is sitting there trying to get assets and resources with the German Shepherd, the Rottweiler, and the Pit Bull whose mission is to prevent terrorist attacks and protect our borders, land, air and sea...
I can see that St. Bernard. His name is Neil. He has a keg of brandy around his neck. And I hate to think of him competing for assets and resources with Spike, Nuke and Wofgang. He's just not going to come away with much, and he might get hurt. 

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