Update: Mike Brown Quits, Escaping The Hangman's Noose; POTUS Whistles In The Dark, Insanely Denying Knowing Of Brown's Departure

"In the best interest of the agency and best interest of The President," FEMA director Mike Brown resigned on Monday. It was time. You think?!

Brown is the cat responsible for the biggest public relations disaster in the history of FEMA, and an ongoing catastrophe for the already enfeebled Bush Administration. [1] Brown was replaced on Friday at the helm of the relief effort, losing on-site command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Chertoff said they were bringing him back to Washington to prepare for the next disaster. Yeah. It was such a an open and deliberately humiliating public dismissal, that you have to wonder if they even gave him the option to resign. More likely, they ordered him to endure a few days of public ignominy before he put the gun in his mouth.

Brown said he feared he had become a distraction. "The focus has got to be on FEMA, what the people are trying to do down there," Brown told The Associated Press.

The president ducked questions about Brown's resignation. "Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working," the president said to reporters on an inspection tour of damage in Gulfport, Miss...


Mike Brown is lucky to get off this easy. There are hordes of people in The South who would welcome the chance to string him up.







Ether this is the dumbest thing The President has ever said in public, or he is criminally out of touch, or, actually, both. The highest profile administration official over the last two weeks quits and POTUS says "I don't know!" This may be the last unscripted moment of the Bush Presidency. . .and if it isn't, the G.O.P. should run Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, Jr. out of town on a rail.


[1] Before you ccomplain about the subject of this post, remember, I am talking about politics, not the lives of the citizens in NO that have been savagely disrupted, and ended by the Hurricane and subsequent events. This particular post focuses on the some of the political ramifications.
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