Aside from the fact that I think our government is seriously flawed, I gave a little giggle this morning when I saw the Yahoo news spot about Michael Brown going against the whole "Blame is a moot point, we are not playing the blame game." and we enter the spin cycle. Now with all of the spin not working as we saw through the thin veil and clearly knew who to blame for this dog and pony show. Brown has come out fighting with fingers pointing in all directions.
Former top U.S. disaster official Michael Brown, on the hot seat Tuesday for the botched response to hurricane Katrina, blamed state and local officials for delaying a mandatory evacuation order of New Orleans and said he asked the White House for help.
Many legislators on the special U.S. House of Representatives committee were clearly exasperated with Brown, who has been widely attacked as a political crony with little experience who was given the job because he was a college buddy of Bush's former campaign manager.
"You can try to throw as much as you can on the backs of Louisianians but I'm a witness as to what happened in Mississippi," said Democrat Gene Taylor.
"You folks fell on your face. You get an F-minus in my book," said Taylor.
"The disconnect was people thought there was some federal expertise out there. It wasn't, not from you."
Republican Kay Granger of Texas told Brown: "I don't know how you can sleep at night. You lost the battle."
Republican Christopher Shays of Connecticut said: "I'm happy you left . . . You weren't capable of doing the job."
"We had a non-evacuation. Then what? Give up?"
"That's what I feel you did."
And Republican William Jefferson of Louisiana, said it was "absolutely stunning" Brown was "laying the blame for FEMA's failings" on the governor and mayor, both Democrats.Next he'll be blaming the citizens of New Orleans for living there in the first place.
What a dick
