Thursday, October 20, 2005

more food for the wolves?

Some of my gazillion readers may have noticed that I've been tweaking my blog. I'm not done with it yet, partly because the 2 side borders make me think of that quilted toilet paper every time I see them.

I'm not specially bothered by Michael Brown (former head of the misbegotten FEMA) being designated the fall guy in the Katrina mess. I'm old enough to have had to both be the wolf food and to have forced others to throw themselves to the ravenous pack at various times. On occasion it's just a job somebody has to do--sometimes you get a worthwhile payback, more often not. I watched Michael Chertoff's statements about the fed's difficulties in dealing with Katrina's fallout yesterday, and thought that he failed to acquit himself gracefully, even with the designated sword faller firmly in place. Don't get me wrong, I'm a loyal party line toe-er, and am loathe to criticize the home team. But ever since it was decided that Michael Brown would be the scapegoat for everything that went wrong during Katrina (except of course, its forming and striking our turf in the first place--everybody knows W did that) a defensive script has been adopted and repeated and MB's name gets inserted in all the blanks. There's a famous latin phrase "Ars est celare artem" meaning "it is art to conceal art". I need to brush up my latin enough to turn that into "it is strategic to conceal strategy", and send it to Chertoff's p.r. person. If this ploy had worked well, we would be saying "Michael Who?" by now.

And I'm not offering a prediction here, but I'm just wondering if it may have been decided that the wolves would prefer Scooter over Karl (I had never heard I. Lewis Libby, VP Cheney's chief of staff, called "Scooter" until a week or so ago when a fellow blogger kindly explained who "Scooter" is to me). Yeah, it's a stretch to get that out of this text, but it's what I might do were I in that sort of predicament.
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