Beyond the question of firing Brown

There have been enough calls to fire FEMA director Brown over the botched response to Katrina that I'm starting to ask another question.

Why doesn't Brown resign? A man of an older generation would have already. You don't even have to accept any blame or responsibility to resign; all you have to do is say (in private) to your leader, "I must be allowed to resign to better serve you by provide you with the scapegoat you so desparately need" and then go before the cameras for some figurative ritual seppeku.

A man of Bush Senior's generation would have understood this and have dealt with his obligations long before this. You may not agree with everything the WWII generation stood for (women 'belong' at home, etc), but at least the rich boys were taught a sense of noblesse oblige in their private schools then. Now all the pampered spawn of privilege acquire is a sense of entitlement.