If only Bush were visiting Mike Brown this week we would have the finest possible ending to the Bush Administration, all filled with poetic justice and everything. But “Brownie,” the most potent symbol of the incompetence brought to us by Bush and Cheney these last eight years, brings us a moment of poetic justice nonetheless. You remember Brownie, the man who horrifically botched the government’s response to the Katrina disaster, at least partly through a failure to evacuate citizens. Well, Mike Brown himself was evacuated today because of wildfires in Colorado. Here it is from the Washington Post:

Former FEMA Administrator Michael Brown, a.k.a. “Brownie,” was among approximately 11,000 residents of Boulder, Colo. evacuated yesterday amid raging wildfires that have scorched at least 1,000 acres. After his eagerly anticipated resignation in Sept. 2005, the poster boy for the Bush administration’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina moved back to the Boulder area, where he once served as legal counsel to the Arabian Horse Association and now operates a disaster consulting business.

“I got back home to Boulder, the winds were just whipping up 60, 80 miles an hour, I was working in my home office, the dogs start barking and lo and behold there’s a Boulder County Sheriff with lights flashing saying there’s a mandatory evacuation,” Brown said during an interview this morning on KOA-AM’s “Colorado’s Morning News.”

The poetic irony of the whole thing makes me smile. The comments on the Washington Post article make me smile much more.