If you can’t keep track of the comings and goings of your staff…. well wow. Check out the video. The guy should have been fired. Hopefully Brown is not just the sacrificial idiot and a deeper look will take place into what went wrong.

Speaking of which, Digby looks into who the administration will eventually cast blame to and how the race card will come into play. Susie Madrak, in a great post, challenges Democrats to wake up:

I’d like to know when Democratic liberals are going to address this particular problem with some kind of plan to turn it around. But no, racists are always “those people�? who live somewhere else, preferably south of the Mason-Dixon line, and liberals want nothing to do with them because “we’re better than that.�? (Remember the heat Howard Dean took for saying he wanted the guys with the pickup trucks and the Confederate flag decals? And how the liberal establishment was all a-twitter? He was right, goddamnit.)

Such horseshit. Really.

Most people are racist out of sheer ignorance and fear. Most of that fear is grounded in resentment at their own narrow economic options. What I want to know is, when are liberals going to address that particular issue instead of tsk-tsking the afflicted and insisting they all stay quarantined somewhere else?

The road to racial equality lies somewhere in the general vicinity of economic prosperity. The Republican agenda has the working poor of all colors fighting over very small slices of an ever- shrinking pie. No wonder racism’s so effective – the poor are so busy fighting each other, they don’t even notice the thieves at the top. (emphasis mine – Karl)

Damn if that doesn’t get to the heart of it. I opined in her commetents for a movement to support and unite poor, the working poor, labor, the infirm and the elderly of all colors and religions. Our parties are more interested in pursuing votes – after all – these segments of our country don’t – then in pursuing justice and common good. Imgaine what would happen this changed?