Later they point out that
U.S. Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, says he can't imagine who would be willing to pay Brown for advice. Green notes that FEMA performed well here following Tropical Storm Allison.
Allison came through in June of 2001, shortly after Bush took office. Presumably FEMA, as a considerable federal agency, had some inertia and whatever it was at that time was due more to the Clinton White House than due to changes that the Bush administration had made. With respect to another government institution, Mr. Cheney has famously said something like you fight your war with the army of the previous administration. Surely after only six months in office the FEMA Gene Green speaks so highly of was primarily a child of the Clinton administration. Whereas, nearly five years later the FEMA of "Brownie" was immensely more a product of the business friendly and government atagonistic Bush administration.
