Downgrades for Brown's Topical Storm (Milbank - WP)

[stevedeshazer]

The House Select Committee on Hurricane Katrina did a heck of a job on Brownie yesterday.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) ordered a Democratic boycott of the hearing, calling it a "sham" and a "photo opportunity." But, as defrocked FEMA director Michael D. Brown can attest, Pelosi's concerns about a whitewash proved unjustified.

Rep. Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican, called Brown's account of events "feeble," "clueless," "shocking" and "beyond belief." Said Shays: "I'm happy you left, because that kind of . . . look in the lights like a deer tells me that you weren't capable to do the job."

Rep. Kay Granger, a Texas Republican, told Brown: "I don't know how you can sleep at night. You lost the battle."

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092701650.html

[niyad]

1. great scott, you mean some repubs are actually doing their job?

[stevedeshazer]

3. I truly believe that only Republicans can end this nightmare.

This is just a foot in the door that's about to be forced open - by other Republicans.

[rodeodance]

2. umm.. Milbank! I do not like him.

[Spangle]

4. They should be saying that to BUSH

Not to Brown.

[niyad]

5. they need to be saying it to each and every member of his administration

and each and every sheeple who blindly supports them

[Erika]

6. The GOP are trying to distance themselves from W

and his appointees and management. They Ok'd the whole ---- and need to be remembered for that. They are scared to death of the backlash against the GOP for the mess this country is now in.

[grytpype]

7. Drownie Brownie is the designated scapegoat.

Because he is two steps below Duhbya, this can't be allowed to go any higher. So he is the guy.

[bluedawg12]

9. Distancing themselves from their fall guy. n/t

[stevedeshazer]

8. No big Milbank fan here, but he wrote one of my favorite pieces on Bush

I'm sure you'd appreciate this piece about when Bush hauled the press corpse up into the wilds of the Adirondacks in 2002. Apparently, this experience soured Dana of the soft hands, at least on this particular day.

Read and enjoy. Judge for yourself.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A31014-2002Apr22¬Found=true

<snip>

President Bush celebrated Earth Day today. Mother Earth declined to cooperate.

The president, eager to burnish his conservationist credentials, scheduled an environmental speech and a visit to a hiking trail here in the Adirondacks, using scenic Whiteface Mountain as his backdrop. The idea was for photographers to take pictures of the sun-dappled president from a pontoon boat.

But when Bush arrived in northern New York, temperatures were in the twenties and a wet late-April snow was beginning to accumulate. It was the latest of many strange natural phenomena to strike the area. Last week, temperatures reached 80 degrees in a historic heat wave. On Saturday, an exceedingly rare earthquake struck the region, breaking water mains and cutting electric power.

Today, the president was here in harsh winter conditions to welcome spring and be close to nature; instead he was forced to eat lunch in a trailer on the side of a road to avoid the elements. Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, threw snowballs. Walking on a muddy, cold trail in the snow, Bush stopped to hammer some nails as reporters watched. "Get them moving," the president told an aide. "That way I won't have to nail so many of these things."

[agingdem]

10. It was a wash because...

they are going after the obviously incompetent horse guy but circling the wagon around their idiot-in-chief. Until someone points a finger at Bush this is nothing more than a dog and pony show.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. I saw the 'hearings' ... the best rhetoric ever ... at a whitewash

It was grandstanding. The rhetoric was red meat hot. But it was misdirected. They aimed far too low. I saw lots of shit tossed at Michael of Arabians, but not a hole hell of a lot at the cabal .... except from Brownie himself.

A dime gets ya a dollar this ends where it starts ..... with Brownie covered in shit.