Still Alive, Still Working, Still Heckuva

Today's Washington Times features a comment by someone who clearly didn't get the memo about today's Harriet Miers announcement.

Conservative activist Michael D. Brown said internal GOP polling being cited by party and administration emissaries purports to show that "70 percent of self-identified conservative voters have a favorable impression of Harriet Miers."

The emissaries are warning that ordinary Republicans beyond the Washington Beltway continue to support the nomination because they trust President Bush, even after several weeks of conservative opposition to her, according to several conservative Miers critics who have been courted by the White House.

The administration is "disappointed that conservatives inside the Beltway are fighting among ourselves over this nomination, and it fuels the fires for our enemies, for Democrats," said Mr. Brown, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director.

So the former FEMA director was late with his response?

These things just write themselves sometimes.

Incidentally, the Washington Times (owned by the Rev. Moon) has got to be the laughingstock of the newspaper biz at this point. They're quoting Brownie and calling him a "conservative activist"? As if what he says has any credibility at all? Also, how about the former director of emergency management, who has been criticized by some on the fringes as deliberately not caring about the large African-American community in New Orleans, most of them who vote Democratic, calling Democrats "our enemies"? I don't want the guy who has to help people in the event of a disaster to have any enemies. Were Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco enemies? Is that why they received no help?

By the way, Brownie is STILL on the FEMA payroll. We're still paying his salary.

This time, I mean it, I'm gone.