Scapegoating

Scapegoating. We all know that it's a central strategy of this White House. Yet, many bloggers fall for it over and over. Maybe we could get more of that remaining 34% if we stopped doing the administration's work for it and took the endless mistakes of the administration as the responsibility of the president.

Now the Bush administration is stepping up the attacks on the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director for sidestepping the chain of command, and the same disaster experts who excoriated Brown, some even cracking jokes about his previous experience with the International Arabian Horse Association, are coming to his side.

On Thursday, Knight Ridder interviewed 12 longtime disaster experts, and most believe Brown should not be the scapegoat for the administration.