If you've forgotten who Michael "Brownie" Brown is in the decade since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, perhaps this descriptor from The Washington Post, written on September 6, 2005, will jog your memory: "Michael Brown has been called the accidental director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, caricatured as the failed head of an Arabian horse sporting group who was plucked from obscurity to become President Bush's point man for the worst natural disaster in U.S. history." What's more, Bush famously told Brown, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," in the midst of the federal government's botched handling of a hurricane that put 80 percent of New Orleans under water, cost $81 billion in property damages, and took 1,833 lives.
But, 10 years on, Brown is tired of your scorn. The former FEMA head explained in Politico Magazine (in a piece appropriately titled, "Stop Blaming Me for Hurricane Katrina") that the blame really lies with his higher-ups, the failed local government who made it impossible for him to do his job, the Constitution, and the media:
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