I Used to Like Brownies.

During the Johnson Presidency, Luci Baines Johnson published her recipe for brownies. They were outrageously good. Happily, I have not had to try any recipes from Laura, Jenna or Barbara.

As both Brian Williams and David Remnick have pointed out, Johnson's handling of hurricane damage in New Orleans was a heck of a lot better than than the Bush family recipe.  I hate to contradict our President, but Brownie did not do "a heck of a job."

He did a "heck" of a good job at representing the Bush administration in hearings today.  As far as representing the people of the United States, he was a blend of embarassment and insult. 

Like a well trained horse, he trotted out the adminsitration's line. He was responsible for nothing.  It was all someone else's fault. He feels that he deserved best in show, and is outraged that he has no ribbon. (Yet, give W. some time.)

Remember France, that country Bush loves to loathe? They continue to investigate the top echelons of French political power;  examining who should be held responsible for  failures that led to  the crash of the Concorde a few years ago. Our administration rehires the man in charge of much larger failures, and uses taxpayer's dollars to pay this man so that he can lie to Congress.

The world was shocked by what Katrina revealed about our country. The "investigation" into what happened is still more revelatory; still more shocking.

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[claudia]

at first the republicans said they didn't want to play the "blame game" but that's exactly what they're doing now, just blaming local gov't! they LOVE the blame game--so long as they get to make up their own rules as they go along...