Sleaze on parade

So "Brownie" is testifying to Susan Collins. (Geez, that's enough to stimulate the gag reflex all by itself.)

Let's stipulate a few things. One, we're relying on a CNN report, which is tantamount to not knowing anything at all.

Two, Brown was scapegoated, no question whatever. Three, folding FEMA into "homeland security" (more gag) was very likely a stupid thing to do; so, for that matter, was creating "homeland security" in the first place. Four, Collins and her colleagues are a bunch of showboaters who know less than Brown.

Nonetheless. Brown's stance contributes to the argument that he's an incompetent boob. His attorney's letter this week asking the White House about executive privilege was pretty obvious blackmail, certainly when it was disclosed publicly.

And you don't get to say, "I feel abandoned." You've pretty much got to suck it up, identify failures, identify any mistakes you made, identify the hypocrisy of the pompous boobs questioning you (and yet you have to do it politely and lightly).

What you don't get to do is just point fingers at every bureaucrat you see, but not yourself. Nor does a privileged communication become non-privileged when you lose your job.

Heck, I wouldn't let Brownie claim executive privilege either. He's not competent enough to do it, and he'd just use it as a press release.

Yecch. Sleaze all around.