We feel better already

The GOP Congress' whitewash of the botched Katrina response is off to a fine start. The star witness Michael "Brownie" Brown takes the blame for not conducting enough press briefings and being incapable of making the local Democrats -- and his superiors -- perform competently. And now we have learned that when he resigned as FEMA chief he was rewarded with a job as a consultant to FEMA on how his ex-agency blew it. Reassuring.