skippy the bush kangaroo: never looked at it that way...

Sunday, March 05, 2006

never looked at it that way...

maybe i ought to give mike brown a chance after all -- jane explains why:

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as a veteran of many pr trench warfare campaigns, i can tell you that the first thing i would have done once it became apparent that bushco. was going to throw him under the bus would be to go after brownie. if iwas, say, a big politician who had been targeted by the gop and lost my seat, or was given to a pugilistic bent, or had an axe to grind over any high-profile rovian rat-fuck delivered by bushco. over the years i would've looked to the katrina disaster, recognized that it was the single worst blow to george bush's credibility in the public mind and gone immediately to work on the guy who had the potential to deliver me a blue dress moment.

i have no knowledge of what actually happened but the push to rehabilitate brown does have, at moments, something of an organized feel (particularly the superb timing). and right now, brown has the ability to do what no other person can -- keep bush's katrina inadequacies in the headlines, kicking him when he's down and damaging his poll numbers such that it both paralyzes him and emboldens his opponents.

none of which can work, mind you, if nobody is willing to listen to brown's story. that bush let someone with the goods on him get so far out of the fold is an incredibly stupid mistake; brownie above all others shouldv'e been kitted up with some cushy job and bankrolled into abject silence. it was an outrageous stumble on the part of a beleaguered and embattled administration, one i'm more than willing to take advantage of.

so if you're still speaking, michael brown, i'm all ears.

so am i.

one of my biggest character flaws is, if i'm mad enough at somebody, my anger can reach the point where i can hardly think straight whenever that person's name comes up. then i say and write things that are, at minimum, borderline irrational. more of the time, they're flat out stupid. this has often been my attitude toward micheal brown -- here's exhibit "a".

but brown has been doing something we very rarely see anyone in the awol administration do: speak candidly. the only thing he has to gain from it that i can see is a clearer conscience. for some people, though, that's more than enough. i'm very big on being able to face myself in the mirror. it's possible that brown's been having some trouble doing that over the last several months. if so, then he's dealing with it in the only appropriate way, and i encourage him to stick to that course.

being a fool is easy. admitting to having been a fool -- that's tougher than it looks...

posted by Jim Yeager at 2:56 AM |