You're Doing a Heck of Job Brownie

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Originally Posted by wolf

Law 26: Keep Your Hands Clean

That is exactly what is happening here. It should have been obvious to everyone that this was going to happen when Karl Rove took over Katrina management about two weeks after the event.

Step one - blame Brownie. Put all failure upon him. A good soldier will take blame and lie down. Brownie has decided to stand up for himself.

If step one fails, then blame Chertoff. Nothing new here. This is what Richard Nixon did all through Watergate. Unfortunately, too many Republicans were more interested in the United States than loyal to the dictatorial president. It is why the Saturday Night Massacre occurred. It is why the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court wanted a court united in its vote - fearing that the long shot would be a coup d’etat.

This 'Brownie inquisition' is what happens when leadership demands loyalty above all else. Unlike in Watergate, there are too many partisan Republicans on that Senate Committee to do anything but hang Brownie in effigy. Brownie made too many mistakes - soiled himself too many times - to be defensible. It will take an Oliver North stand before Congress just to break even. Chertoff has little to worry about.

Meanwhile, most every FEMA senior manager has qualifications equivalent to Brownie's - political appointee without any experience or underlying training. As noted long ago, Wolf had better FEMA qualifications than Brownie or Chertoff.