May 05, 2010 10:03 PM UTC

Heckuva Snow Job, Brownie

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• by: Colorado Pols

For some odd reason we haven’t quite figured out, apparently CNN finds the opinion of former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael “Brownie” Brown of Hurricane Katrina infamy, now a “disaster consultant” and radio personality living in Boulder…relevant? When did this walking punchline get rehabilitated?

Former FEMA director Michael Brown is not backing off his charge that the Obama administration wants to use the Gulf Coast oil spill as a plot to put an end to offshore drilling.

“They want a crisis like this, so that they can use a crisis like this to shut down offshore and gas drilling,” he said Tuesday night on CNN’s “AC 360°.”

His remarks came a day after he told Fox News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto” that the oil slick is “exactly what they want, because now he can pander to the environmentalists and say, ‘I’m going to shut it down because it’s too dangerous.’ While Mexico and China and everybody else drills in the Gulf, we’re going to get shut down.”

…Brown told CNN that he didn’t mean to imply the administration wanted the slick to spread, but he suggested that the White House was exaggerating the ramifications of the spill by claiming the damage would last forever.

“Look, when you have an administration who is leading the country, and their political position is that we want to move away from a carbon-based energy supply to something else, this crisis occurs, the Rahm Emanuel rule No. 1 of never letting a crisis go to waste kicks in, and they have done that,” Brown said.

Seriously? Because it was our understanding that unless you needed an expert on Arabian horses, or disaster-scene fashion tips, nobody really called Michael Brown for anything anymore. After all, Mark Foley was the head of the Exploited Children’s Caucus once upon a time too, but, uh…