Brown Thrown to the Wolves

After the immediately refuted slander of Governor Blanco, todays approach to spin control (as reported at Spin Central) is to blame it all on Brown. The new line is that there was a failure on the federal level, but that was just one bad apple. The more time with hi family sentence could not be clearer "Joe M. Allbaugh -- a college friend, former Bush campaign manager and past FEMA director who hired Brown as FEMA general counsel in 2001 -- offered a qualified defense."

This is a no brainer as there is no possible way to defend either Brown's performance or the orginal decision to appoint him head of FEMA.

Just imagine how it might go "Well we know that profiling is controversial and that we have been accused of thinking only of terrorism, but you know he is expert on Arabian horses. "

Or "Well he has to be expert on evacuations in challening circumstances which are accomplished against what should have been impossible odds and Osama Bin Laden managed that on a horse. How were we supposed to know that there aren't 100,000 horses in New Orleans"

I strongly suspect however that the wolves won't be satiated. The current progression is strictly alphabetical -- Blame Blanco, Blame Brown Blame Bu----- Chertoff. My sense is it will be one after the other, like dirt washing off a levee, until Bush's critics come pouring in. OK so I just compared myself to liquid filth from lake Ponchetrain, but I don't care -- "Once more into the breach dear friends"