WH email: Tag! You're It in the Katrina Blame Game

Alternative Title: "My Pet Goats, by George W. Bush"

Thought this deserved a mention here.  CNN is reporting that Michael Brown, former chief of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina, received an email from a good friend of the president (in the Executive Office of the President) five days before Brown resigned stating that "President Bush was glad to see the Oval Office had dodged most of the criticism."

A little more below.  (Sorry, not much as I'm tired.  And sorry if this is old news... I hadn't seen it.)

From the article:

The e-mail stated that Bush was relieved that Brown -- and not Bush or Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff -- was bearing the brunt of the flak over the government's handling of Katrina.

The September 2005 e-mail reads: "I did hear of one reference to you, at the Cabinet meeting yesterday. I wasn't there, but I heard someone commented that the press was sure beating up on Mike Brown, to which the president replied, 'I'd rather they beat up on him than me or Chertoff.' "

The sender adds, "Congratulations on doing a great job of diverting hostile fire away from the leader."

[emphasis added]

Three things stuck out to me:
   1. The buck stops where?  Hey, just because he's the decider doesn't make him actually responsible for any those decisions!
   2. A high level official in the White House actually refers to Bush as "the leader"!!!
   3. Bush is happy about something after Katrina.  Why?  Well, of course, because he dodged the criticisms in the press, silly!  (And now we see why he thought Brownie was doing a heckuva job.  Because in Bush's eyes, he was.)

The article closes with this:

"What the White House was actually doing was taking some stories that got started in the media and pushing them and pushing them until everything got diverted to Mike," Lester [Brown's attorney] said. "Mike Brown was being made the scapegoat."

Obviously, this won't be surprising to anyone here.  Bush has created so many scapegoats he'll have to hire a shepherd (goatherd?).  (Or perhaps he plans to 'restore' the Jewish temple -- those 'Jihadists' surely won't mind -- and reinstitute the traditional Yom Kippur sacrifice?   If so, he'd certainly have a corner on the market and could rake in the dough right up until the rapture!   Who says he's not a good businessman?!)