Summary
Political hearings that investigate blame seldom accomplish much. In the case of a House committee's grilling of former FEMA director Mike Brown, however, a few lessons can be gleaned. The greatest of these is that it does little good to hang onto political ideologies when the world around you is collapsing.
Time and again Tuesday, Brown tried to deflect blame for the tragedies of Hurricane Katrina, saying that the federal government's role was not to evacuate or to provide people with the gasoline they needed in order to leave. The human suffering that occurred in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast was, to a large degree, the result of problems in state and local governments, he said.See the full content of this document
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Lessons From Mike Brown
"I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down...
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