What am I missing? Is this not outrageous? Or at least outrageously stupid on the GOP’s part? From today’s Washington Times:

Gov. Blanco gets no Katrina questions
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, blamed by the former leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin for many of the city’s post-hurricane problems, was given no questions about her response to Hurricane Katrina when she appeared before a Senate committee to plead for more federal money.
She asked not to be questioned about it and the senators agreed.
Mrs. Blanco, a Democrat, was invited by the Senate Finance Committee to respond to charges by former FEMA Director Michael D. Brown, who the day before called Louisiana officials “dysfunctional” in handling the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“Today, I came really to talk about job creation,” she said.

Me: Perhaps there’s some genius four-part Rovian strategy I’m missing here. But why should Michael Brown get grilled but Blanco get pampered? Why would an overwhelmingly Republican committee agree to that?