Woody Cavenaugh

I was surprised that Congress wanted to take Brown to task, everyone had agreed that Brown was going to be the scapegoat pretty early on and he accepted his role and resigned. It should have been over, but I guess some congressional types needed some sound bites to boost their popluarity numbers. They wanted a scapegoat, Brown is the scapegoat. They wanted a whipping boy, Brown never agreed to that.

And why should he? Is he to blame for most of FEMA's failures during Katrina? Yes. Is there still plenty of blame to go around? Yes again. Should he take all of the blame for everything? Congress seems to think so. Lets be honest, Brown was appointed, everyone else involved was elected. Everyone wants to be reelected. None of them are going to want to shoulder any of their personal blame and are going to take great pains to spin that blame somewhere else. Congress sees no reason why Brown shouldn't be the fall guy here. Good for reelection campains, bad for Americans.

Lets face it, I would vote for the Mayer of New Orleans as president of the united states, but he should've evacuated New Olreans before escape became impossible. There were plenty of school busses and such available to at least make a good college try. Instead the busses were sunk with the rest of the city. The governor of LA could have mentioned something about evacuation before Katrina hit, and asked for help sooner once Katrina did hit. There is/was plenty of blame to go around.

I am not sure what set me off the most last night watching the news reports of Congress trying to make brownies out of Brown, the effeminate U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor (D) Mississippi who tried so hard to get Brown to accept 110% of the blame, or his even more effeminate toady sitting behind him learing like a jackel into the cameras. He had the kind of learing face that needed to be hit with something.

Kudo's to Brown for refusing to take any blame that wasn't his. Jeers to the whiny little politicians who care about nothing but vote getting. Jeers also to members of the media who are reporting that Brown refused to accept any blame at all. Quit lying to us you little attention whores, you're getting as bad as the politicians.