Why scapegoating isn't a safe bet

Well, a lot of us bloggers did a pretty good job making Michael Brown look like the worst person ever after the Hurricaine Katrina debacle. We largely missed the real targets in the white house, though, as Bush and friends just let us all blame Brownie instead.

Today, though, Brown made it clear that he's one former arabian horse association commissioner who's not going to take the administration's guff:

Michael Brown, the embattled former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, testified before a Senate committee today that he told a top White House official on the day Hurricane Katrina struck that "our worst nightmares" had come true in New Orleans.

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Asked if he told the White House staffer specifically that the New Orleans levees had been breached, Brown said he couldn't recall, but said he informed him that "everything we had planned about, worried about, was coming true." He said that talking to Hagin was like "speaking to the president."