He responds to disaster too damn slow,
Ignoring all the chaos in the Superdome.
Michael Brown. He's a clown.
That Michael Brown. He's a clown.
He's gonna get caught, just you wait and see:
"Why is everybody always picking on me?"

Here's a classic Karl Rove move.

Have the president say to the public: "Brownie, you're doin' a heckuva job!"

Then you leak the dirt on him.

And with it, the blame:

The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region — and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents.

Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims.

Before then, FEMA had positioned smaller rescue and communications teams across the Gulf Coast. But officials acknowledged Tuesday the first department-wide appeal for help came only as the storm raged.

Classic Rove.

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