“Don’t get in my way” works when you’re actually doing something yourself. But this guy isn’t going to do shit, he’s an acting manager. If people get out of his way and do nothing, he’s going to accomplish nothing. The order he’s looking for is “do what I say”.

“I, and I alone in FEMA, speak for FEMA,” Richardson said.

Ok, you’re going to be doing the press briefings and writing the releases then? Go for it big man.

“…I took my Marines to Iraq, eleven of them”

Oooooh, ELEVEN whole marines! Wow, what a prestigious career in leadership.

“We’re going to find out how to push things down to the states,” the acting leader later added. “That should be done at the state level. Also going to find out how we can do more cost sharing with the states.”

I assume this is the royal “we”, as your only instruction is to not get in your way.

Read the whole article, there’re more dumb statements. This guy is a big old clown. I’m sure many people there care deeply about their jobs, either for the mission or for maintaining a steady paycheck, but like the petulant doge pups, I think I’d just openly mock a boss who acted like that.

Also, many times you’re not supposed to stop at yield signs. I assume he means “ever, including when someone else is in the roadway”, but it’s just a muddled statement.

Casey Means has no government experience and dropped out of her surgical residency program, saying she became disillusioned with traditional medicine.

She was probably told she wouldn’t pass residency, because paying the expense of medical school and then not getting licensed to practice medicine is insane.

He was prevented by language in bills he signed, and that was only after the Republicans took control in 2010. The failure to close Gitmo was just the same dithering and cautiousness that doomed or degraded many of his other optimistic goals. The whole reason Gitmo is bad is because it can be governed by unilateral executive decisions. It’s one of those situations where he had real power to decide how things worked, but wanted everything to process through a slow bureaucracy rather than taking a more active role.