Brownie Keeps Firing

You've got to hand it to ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown: he's not giving an inch in his long-running campaign to rehabilitate his image. Rather than hiding on the Katrina anniversary, he's out there on TV, guns blazing, arguing that if he'd only been given the money, everything would've been fine in the Katrina response. Sure, that's a stretch, but it's hard to blame somebody who was made the fall guy for a whole series of shortcomings in disaster planning.