Here is a link to the transcript.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/national/nationalspecial/27text-brown.html?pagewanted=all

I've just started reading it and I guess I understand why the dems decided not to join the committee; they would have gotten clobbered by Brown.

He is just laying it into everyone. I say good for him. People (media and democrats in particular) treated him pretty badly after Katrina.