Let he who holds the blame, hurl stones

In today's bizarre chapter of the "Heck of a Job" Brownie Story," he testily testified before the GOP dominated "inquistion" into their own incompetence, otherwise known as the House Select Hurricane Katrina Committee hearings.

He laid the blame on Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco and said he was sorry he didn't hold more press briefings. I'm sure that would have been a great comfort to the abandoned victims of Katrina while they were waiting for him to notice they needed water.

As might be expected, he endured quite a grilling from LA Rep. William Jefferson, one of the few Dems that participated in the questioning, but he's not finding this an easy crowd on either side of the fence.

Under questioning from Congressman Chris Shays, R-Conn., Mr. Brown just expressed his outrage that he is being "berated" for "not being Rudolph Giuliani."

Meanwhile, The Democratic Daily discovers the cable news have taken a bit of macabre dig at Brown. They are showing the hearings using a split screen.

In one box (typically the smaller of the two) are the members of Congress and Mr. Brown… and in the other, a kind of “greatest hits” reel of the worst of the damage and the human depravity in New Orleans early on in the crisis.

Might make it worth suffering through the TV infotainment shows for a while to see that.