So now this hack is making TV appearances one year after the debacle in New Orleans, blaming Bush, Nagin, Governer Blanco and Homeland Security, among others, and painting himself as the good guy who was screaming for help while no one listened.

Claims he is being held as the scapegoat because he was a "government appointee" instead of an "elected official".

Oh, and he only did one little bitty thing wrong - kept mentioning the admin's rosey talking points instead of telling the truth about how things were going to hell down there or how FEMA had absolutely no plan of action (seems to me that they used to call that lying, if my memory serves me).

Stupid comments he made about not knowing anything about the Superdome until Friday are due to the fact that he hadn't slept in 37 hours, so Friday was actually Wednesday in his poor confused but heroic mind.Of course, no mention of the fine diners, expensive suits for his on air appearances, etc.

He needs to have lunch with Barbara Bush so they can both pat each other on the back.

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JoeM

While Brownie was hardly a saint in this, he WAS in fact the scapegoat.

Bush is accountable for putting an unqualified person in charge of such a crucial department.

Chertoff was the one who's head should have rolled on Katrina, that is pretty obvious. If you do *any* sort of research at all you will come to the same conclusion. Skeletor repeatedly ignored messages, downplayed the disaster preparedness, and then the response.

Bush was picking the geetar in San Diego, but that's to be expected - he's an imbecile.

The DHS should have been on this once the storm trajectory was tracked. They didn't do *@#$%&* about *@#$%&*. Bush appointed Brownie, then Chertoff threw him under the bus to save his own bacon. What @#$%&.

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mick e,

I am in total agreement with you but it's unbelievable that this knucklehead has the b*lls to get on national tv and try to spin his incompetence and self involvement into a supposed portrait of an on the ball, FEMA leader whose only fault was that he preached the admin's BS while fighting them.

This guy should @#$%& and crawl under a rock instead of telling anyone who will listen that he was a competent disaster manager.

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JoeM

mick e did not see the interview this AM, but in his last round of appearances, Brownie seemed contrite, accepting blame for his failings - while also pointing out that the problem was systemic and could have been minimized by those above him.

Many of his attempts at communicating the urgency of the situation to his superiors - and his his decision to go over Chertoff's head as a result - are documented and available for review.

Whether he shared blame or not, his inside perspective on the situation is of value.

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If I had been President then,'' Kerry said, ''I would have tried reason and used the
great moral weight of the White House to implore Katrina to linger and die in the
Gulf. Instead, Bush peddled fear and provoked the storm with belligerent
statements about its course and destructive power.

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In related news, the evil President Bush and the evil Vice President Cheney have
emerged from their secret, underground, tropical storm-generating laboratory that
they use to direct hurricanes against people they don't like, after determining that
Ernesto had to be reduced to a mere tropical storm, based on studies that showed it
would not kill sufficient numbers of people of color to satisfy the evil Bush/Cheney
cabal.

...following close scrutiny of the weather system, it was revealed that Ernesto instead will be taken out to sea to gain strength and come back into the Carolinas instead.

When asked if there was any favor given to his brother Jeb and the state of FL, President Bush replied " Fool ya once, foo fool me...oh nevermind."

VP Dick Cheney, when questioned about the storm being created to rid Florida of Katherine Harris, he replied, "I cannot confirm or deny that story."

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