Hopefully the Democrats will formulate an effective and coherent response to the Republican administration's incompetence and corruption.  And soon.

With Tom DeLay under felony indictment, Bill Frist under investigation for insider trading, Karl Rove under investigation for the Plame affair (though 'tis pity he won't be charged with high treason), the Jack Abramoff lobbyist scandal (one small facet of it, dealing with mob ties and murder, written about here), and the disgraced horse-judge Michael Brown lying to Congress about his incompetence, you'd start to think that maybe these guys don't have the best interests of the country at heart.

Also: check out this funny-if-it-weren't-so-frightening list of nicknames given by George W. Bush.  This man has unbelievable power, remember.

I think I'm going to go hide under the covers now.

Comments

[arto]

See, to these guys, getting indicted for criminal abuse of power is a positive career move. It's kinda like the white collar version of gangsta rap.

[Vidiot]

Then I certainly wish more of them would go to jail.

Or is it too much to ask for a teeny little drive-by here and there?

[Jason Whong]

Re: Your ThinkProgress link on the Brown hearings...

Having been there, I think the stuff they quote and refute may be a bit out of context.

On claim 1 re: evacuating communities, Brown was talking about evacuating before the storm, not afterward, if I recall correctly...

On claim 2 re: FEMA stretched beyond its capabilities, The quote they used to refute his claim was dated from a year before, and was probably a hurricane that was not as much of a disaster (or else we would have heard about it. I think his argument was that Katrina stretched FEMA beyond its capabilities.) In any case, Congress chastized him for being too chickenshit to ask them for more money in an actual hearing instead of "working within the system" to try and fail to get the resources, as he preferred.

On claim 3 re: Not being able to discuss with Congress what he discussed with the New York Times, as I recall is was either Rep. Warner or Rep. Shays that told him that anything he said to the Times was a matter of public record, so he might as well say it to Congress. And then Brown repeated it for Congress.

My blog entry about the guy may have been too kind. I don't think he was lying to Congress, though. My impression of him is that he's weaselly. Not a liar, but certainly lacking in leadership skills, and very defensive.

(He may have been lying to Congress when he said the media spread lies about his resume... but then again, maybe he was telling he truth "from a certain point of view.")