What Can Brown Do For You? (Not much)

Fuckuva Job, Brownie

Mikey is showing his mellower side with the passage of time, now admitting his performance stunk worse than a horsebarn that hasn't been mucked in a couple of months:

Ex-FEMA Director Michael Brown said Wednesday that he deserved much of the blame for pre- and post-Katrina failures, saying he fell short in communicating the magnitude of the disaster and in calling for help...

Brown said he failed to communicate the extent of the devastation to the media and to the federal government.

His concessions reversed his version of the events stated during a congressional hearing Sept. 27. At that time, he blamed most of the government's failure to properly respond to the hurricane on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin — both Democrats. He specifically targeted them for failing to evacuate New Orleans, restore order and improve communication.

Brown then launced into the "let's not point fingers" defense, i.e., where the hell do you think fingers would point? Then we get this gem:

He told attendees at the annual Operation Sierra Storm — a gathering of broadcast and National Weather Service meteorologists at snowy Mammoth Mountain Ski Area — that he failed to delegate responsibility and instead tried to attend to the details himself.

Details like his wardrobe, dinner, and career plans, evidently.

Meanwhile, there are STILL over 3,000 people officially listed as "missing" (to be fair, most of these instances are probably people who've slipped through the cracks, as it were, although the article suggests more victims might be found in debris--or, worse, may have ended up forever in the surrounding waters.

I'll reiterate my own modest proposal: for every dollar spent in Iraq or Afghanistan, an equal amount should be appropriated for the Gulf Coast (close friends who visited the Gret Stet during the holidays wrote me recently, and described the scene along Highway 90 as you travel east. The destruction is unimaginable). I don't see why this should even be debated, and Schroeder found an excellent article that explains why:

"How," I want to ask our current president, can it be deemed unjust and un-American to abandon the democratization of Iraq, while at the same time you "cut and run" on an American democracy?

Team Bush should be asked this question EVERY DAY until real progress is made.