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BLAME GAME TIED
Andy Borowitz

Federal, Local Governments Deadlocked in Finger-pointing Contest

The ongoing blame game that began in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is
officially tied, as Federal and local governments have each dished out
identical amounts of blame, the official scorekeeper of the blame game said
today.

The scorekeeper, Karl Chanswood, is president of the National Blame Game
Association, an organization that for the past forty years has promoted the
blame game as a professional sport and hopes to see it included someday in
the Olympics.

Mr. Chanswood said that in the current blame game, state and local
governments pulled out to an early lead over the Federal government.

"Based on the early going, I would have guessed that the state and local
governments had this particular blame game in the bag," Mr. Chanswood said.

But after initially stumbling, he said, the Federal government stepped up
their finger-pointing and pulled into a dead heat with their state and local
rivals.

"I have to hand it to the White House," Mr. Chanswood said. "They were way
behind in this finger-pointing contest, but then they really brought their
'A' game."

At the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan brushed aside criticism that
the White House responded too slowly to being blamed by state and local
governments and should have started returning the blame much sooner.

Mr. McClellan pointed out that President Bush had recently authorized the
release of the Strategic Blame Reserves, an emergency supply of blame that
is used only in times of national crisis: "That's a sign of how seriously we
take winning this blame game."