Support the "FIRE MICHAEL BROWN" movement

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The right wing's plan to backdoor Kathleen Blanco weakened inexorably with thre flood of documents over the weekend, particularly the provisions of the December 2004 NPR, and collapsed completely today in her meeting with Bush. That's obvious enough. They'll make minor noises in this direction for a few weeks, but it's dead. No traction, and no oomph. The minute she refused to allow Bush to federalize the Louisiana National Guard she placed the responsibility for the disaster back on FEMA, where it well and truly belongs. The meeting today was a final strong-arm tactic,m and Blanco didn't blink. they're on to Plan B: scuttle Michael Brown.

We should help them push him overboard.

A lot of people here think that Brown will be the minor scapegoat that allows Chertoff and Bush to escape responsibility. that's why Malkin, John Gibson at Fox News, and Lou Dobbs are trumpeting his obvious lack of qualifications and management skills. We've seen it all before: the bad apple strategy. That's true. But this time it's different:

1) Chertoff allowed Brown to continue on at FEMA even after he took charge; to call Brown an incompetent manager is the same as to call Chertoff an incompetent administrator, and, a fortiori, Bush is an incompetent executive.

2) Bush has never fired anyone for anything but disputing him. Bush has never had any accountability at all. Accountability here will be the first chink in his armor.

3) It will throw the right wing spinners into confusion. They've been told to push the message that responsibility lies at the state and local level. Brown's firing would be a de facto admission of culpability at the federal level by Bush himself, thereby destroying their arguments. Push this hard!!!