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To: steve harris who wrote (249364)	9/4/2005 6:52:28 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

Here's what a neocon blogger (formerly a BIG chimp supporter!) thinks: BLAMING THE LOCALS: That's the Bush strategy. And the local authorities did indeed fail badly with respect to mobilizing resources to evacuate the poorer parts of the threatened city while they still could. No criticism I've made of the federal response should be inferred to say I think the locals performed well. They didn't. But a disaster of this magnitude is obviously beyond the scope of a single mayor or governor. And it became clear very quickly to anyone with a modem or a TV that a disaster was happening. The federal officials are on record denying the calamity even as CNN and Fox were broadcasting it. Chertoff is still denying that anyone foresaw such a scenario even as Brown has said they were on the verge of a plan for dealing with it; and anyone with Google can see umpteen predictions, warnings and analysis of just such a scenario for years. The president told Diane Sawyer that no one anticipated the breach of the levees - about the dumbest thing he has said since the "Mission Accomplished" fiasco. Today, the WaPo, in the piece cited above, has this: "As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency, the senior Bush official said." Hmm. As a reader pointed out, the record shows she did such a thing the previous Saturday. And that Bush had declared one the next day. When the administration's excuses are this patently thin - and contradict each other - you know that this time, even Karl Rove cannot blame someone else. andrewsullivan.com - 3:22:00 PM FIRE MICHAEL BROWN: Here's a great blog post about the blithering idiot, Michael "heck of a job" Brown, hired with no credentials to run a critical agency at a time of national peril. I guess some of us pundits bear the blame. We should have known that someone who had been fired for being unable to run an Arabian Horse Association had the job of responding to a national disaster in the war on terror. He was hired because a Bush crony, Joe Allbaugh (also hired because he was a major Bush fundraiser) liked him. The good ol' boy network at its most brazen. If the president wants to recover even a little from what has happened to his reputation, he has to fire Brown. Now. That's the test of whether he gets it. Not his furrowed brow press conferences. Not his spin. Not the desperate attempts by Republican partisans - once again! - to blame someone else down the chain of command. I don't normally agree with Michelle Malkin, but she's right on this one. I think we need the same blog pressure to get rid of Brown that we had with Trent Lott and Howell Raines. This is not a liberal-conservative issue. This is a competence issue. It's a question of national security. Fire Brown now.