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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Did anyone else see Brownie on the Colbert Report last week (I caught up on Tivo last night)? I was somewhat impressed that he's showing his face in public, much less subjecting himself to Stephen Colbert.
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He's actually not a dumb guy. He wasn't bad before Congress either. And he's got a somewhat compelling case in his "I'm a scapegoat" defense. The word amongst politicos in DC (that I heard from drunken sources while screwed out of my tree at a hotel bar) was that Chertoff is a four star imbecile who will be on hiw way out as soon as it can be done in such a way as to not make it look like a firing for incompetence.
I don't think, from what I've read, Brownie fucked up out of sheer stupidity. He just didn't care and never expected to deal with such a serious issue. He was a guy riding a good resume-building gig, like 9 out of 10 heads of agencies. He just happened to be the unlucky bastard who had a disaster happen on his watch.
