This was the next entry on my list, but somehow with the current political situation, it seems so, so apt:
“If you’re born in this world you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America you’re given a front-row seat.”
— George Carlin
It was only yesterday that it was revealed that Michael Brown is still being paid by FEMA, being paid apparently as a consultant in the investigation into what went wrong at FEMA in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. I wasn’t expecting him to go in and admit that he screwed up, or that he had no competence in the field and only got the job because he was a college buddy of his predecessor at FEMA, who himself only got the job because he was one of the President’s buddies. Naah, to have Michael Brown look in the mirror to find who screwed up at FEMA was about as likely as having OJ Simpson look in the mirror “to find the real killers.”
But today, this man has the colossal gall to get up there and not only blame everyone but himself, but to hold a personal pity party in front of Congress!
Brown, quoted on the CNN.com website: “I guess you want me to be the superhero that is going to step in there and suddenly take everybody out of New Orleans.”
NO, YOU STUPID, SELF-IMPORTANT SUNUVABITCH, I WANT YOU TO DO YOUR THRICE-DAMNED JOB! YOU KNOW, THE ONE YOU GOT PAID TO DO IN BETWEEN ALL THOSE “good Mexican meals, a pitcher of margaritas and a good night’s sleep” THAT YOU SEEMED TO THINK YOU WERE ENTITLED TO WHILE PEOPLE WERE STARVING AND DROWNING AND DYING ON YOUR WATCH!
You should be spanked. Get the hell out of Washington. Get the hell out of my face. Give your FEMA salary — before and after you “resigned,” give it all to the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Go live in the sludge and the condemned houses and the piles of rubble, corpses and crap. Spend your days on the phone — if you can find one that works — listening to the busy signal on the FEMA “hotlines.” THEN, maybe we can talk about your little pity party.
Leo Rosten once wrote that the definition of “chutzpah” was, a man who has killed his parents asking for mercy from the court because he’s an orphan. I have to believe this little performance of Michael Brown’s ranks right up there.