Taking Full Responsibility
Taking Full Responsibility
President Bush should be commended for finally accepting “full responsibility†for his blunders in managing the Katrina recovery effort. While he’s in the mood to begin taking responsibility, we’ve offered 10 other issues for which he should also be held accountable:
- The launching of a war of choice against a country that had no WMD
- The approval of interrogation practices that led to torture at Abu Ghraib
- The failure to disclose the true cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill
- The tripling of global terrorist attacks
- The 6 million more uninsured Americans over the past four years
- The $1.40 increase in the price of gas per gallon over the past four years
- The 7 percent decrease in real value of minimum wage over the past four years
- The 11 percent increase in poverty over the past four years
- The four straight years in which median household incomes have not increased
- The all-time high trade deficit, nearing $700 billion
Feel free to add to the list.
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September 13th, 2005 at 4:38 pmlaunching
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"I accept full responsibility. Now, watch this drive!"
September 13th, 2005 at 4:40 pmHow about making the EPA advise the citizens of New York after 911 that the air was just fine to breath which has caused profound health problems as well as low birth weight in newborn infants from that area.
How about doing the same with the water in New Orleans. Ok, nobody said it's fine to drink but the health hazards of rescuers without masks can easily be fatal. Air America had a great guy from the EPA on this morning. This is going to cause a lot of harm.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:42 pmThanks. I've made the correction
September 13th, 2005 at 4:42 pm-the federal budget deficit
September 13th, 2005 at 4:44 pm-raiding the Social Security Trust Fund
For not firing the person responsibile for outing a Covert CIA Agent.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:44 pmFor not bring to Justice Osama Bin Laden.
For an administration where Loyalty to Bush trumps loyalty to the country.
Wow... About friggin time he accepted responsiblility for SOMETHING. I guess the whining from his own party must have been pretty intense in the back rooms. Usually he'd just sweep it under the rug and blame Clinton. Now if he'd just step up the rest of his failures.
Only through acknowledging his failures can he hope to take the first steps to repairing them. I'm not holding my breath.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:47 pmI'll add one - "Raising the volume of the moronic left's voices."
September 13th, 2005 at 4:48 pmPresident Bush "taking responsibility" might mean nothing in the end, but it did cause Karl Rove and 290 million of his closest American friends to keel over and faint!
September 13th, 2005 at 4:49 pmIsn't accepting responsibilty the first step in a twelve step program. Maybe he is getting help for his alcohol and drug problems. :)
September 13th, 2005 at 4:50 pmI need to call Rush - he said this was exactly what you guys would do, try to get Bush to admit fault for everything else that is not to your liking.
I'll try to take on just one of the points to show how worng your side always is: Any of you idiots realize what the price of gas should be these days adjusted for inflation? Try $2.50-$2.60. So if the price comes down close to that in the next several weeks, its right where it should be. Do you even wonder why the price of gas is so high? Could it be that developing countries like China are driving up the price? What about our restricted refining capacity capped by environmentalists back in the eighties and ninties? How about our own strong economy? You have to admit that things are going better than the MSM would like to know. Just how many of these are under Bush's control or that he was responsible for? Very little. Is he trying to do something about it? Yes.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:51 pmSo sit down. Shut up and try to think of what went wrong with the last election so you can maybe have a different result in 2008. Doubtful that you can do that given your overwhelming hated of Bush but good luck anyway.
also worth noting that he can't actually be held to account b/c there are no elections left. I wish we could hold him responsible
September 13th, 2005 at 4:51 pm“I accept full responsibility. Now, watch this drive!â€
Comment by Rotwang — September 13, 2005 @ 4:40 pm
You crack me up! I'm gonna borrow that.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:51 pmNote that President Bush said: "And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility." Has he even admitted that the federal government didn't fully do its job right?
September 13th, 2005 at 5:04 pmWhy do the trolls always say things like: thank you, good luck and I hope you're right? Is it just classic passive aggressive or does anyone think that they may be having psychotic meltdowns? It's very strange behavior.
Shouldn't minimum wage be increased with the rise of inflation?
September 13th, 2005 at 5:05 pmSeemed an arbitrary time for Bush to suddenly take responsibility and cut the legs out of the "it was the Democrats' fault" defense.
Maybe he just found his conscience.
Maybe he knew he was about to be embarrassed. On Wednesday I applauded Conyers for asking the admirably non-partisan Congressional Research Service to investigate the Katrina response.
Today Conyers hears back...
Report Confirms that Louisiana Took Necessary and Timely Steps
Pursuant to a September 7 request by Representative John Conyers to review the law and legal accountability relating to Federal action in response to Hurricane Katrina, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report today about whether the Governor of Louisiana took the necessary and timely steps needed to secure disaster relief from the federal government. The report unequivocally concludes that she did.
Congressman Conyers issued the following statement:
"This report closes the book on the Bush Administration's attempts to evade accountability by shifting the blame to the Governor of Louisiana for the Administration's tragically sluggish response to Katrina. It confirms that the Governor did everything she could to secure relief for the people of Louisiana and the Bush Administration was caught napping at a critical time."
In addition to finding that "...it would appear that the Governor did take the steps necessary to request emergency and major disaster declarations for the State of Louisiana in anticipation of Hurricane Katrina. (p.11)" The report found that:
* All necessary conditions for federal relief were met on August 28. Pursuant to Section 502 of the Stafford Act, "[t]he declaration of an emergency by the President makes Federal emergency assistance available," and the President made such a declaration on August 28. The public record indicates that severa additional days passed before such assistance was actually made available to the State;
* The Governor must make a timely request for such assistance, which meets the requirements of federal law. The report states that "[e]xcept to the extent that an emergency involves primarily Federal interests, both declarations of major disaster and declarations of emergency must be triggered by a request to the President from the Governor of the affected state";
* The Governor did indeed make such a request, which was both timely and in compliance with federal law. The report finds that "Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco requested by letter dated August 27, 2005...that the President declare an emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina for the time period from August 26, 2005 and continuing pursuant to [applicable Federal statute]" and "Governor Blanco's August 27, 2005 request for an emergency declaration also included her determination...that 'the incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of disaster."
http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/003513.html
September 13th, 2005 at 5:08 pmHow about the war in Iraq would not cost the American taxpeyers one penny.
September 13th, 2005 at 5:28 pmsorry taxpayers
September 13th, 2005 at 5:29 pmAdmitting responsibility to slow response time for Katrina was a good move on Bush's part because most Americans will look at him and think he is such an honest guy for admitting to his wrong doings but it is just a move to get people to forget all the other things (listed above, and then some)that he has done.
Coming out and admitting responsibility does not make Bush a good guy. He was caught in between a rock and a hard place and he realized that he had to say something or his approval ratings would slip even lower.
September 13th, 2005 at 5:34 pmfull?...I have very very long list so far, so let's cut to the begining....vote tampering too in 2000?
September 13th, 2005 at 5:38 pmAnyone else would be on death row.
Mr. Bush, accepting responsibility for any mistakes your underlings /may/ have made is a laudable act. Thing is, I happened to notice that you did so while *not* admitting any *personal* accountability. Will you kindly tell us of one mistake thay you personally have made here, aside from hiring 'Brownie' in the first place?
September 13th, 2005 at 5:40 pm* Turning the largest budget surplus in American history into the largest budget deficit in the history of the world.
September 13th, 2005 at 5:45 pm* Filing a Friend of the Court brief with the Supreme Court to end affirmative action and then ignoring black people dying in the streets.
* Cutting funding every year for New Orleans' and Southern Louisiana's levees.
* Filling FEMA leadership positions with college buddies of guys that worked on your campaign.
* The decline of American prestige in the world to perhaps its lowest point in the history of our nation.
Randy, do you think that all of us are ignorant? I'm sure that we're all aware, because we all READ, that gas prices, adjusted for inflation, should be in the $2.50ish range, and that China is now influencing oil prices as well. But prices are now, at least in our area, $3.75 or so a gallon, and in the meantime domestic oil companies are making record profits and were just thrown a multi-million dollar sop from the energy bill. You state that Bush is trying to do something about it--such as? Blowing his Saudi Arabian buddies?
NT, you're right, you do have to note how Bush phrased his "admission of responsibility"--that's his escape route. He'll never admit the extend of the federal government's errors, in this case or any other.
P&P, I tried to catch you on one of the other threads: how did the pet rescue go in New Orleans?
September 13th, 2005 at 5:57 pmYou forgot to mention three other quasi-military failures. The left can't make these things stick like Rush and the gang can.
1. Gave China a chance to dismantle a spy plane and gain all the technology.
2. Let campaign donors play with a nuclear sub and it crashed and killed Japanese school kids.
3. Bush's managers were found responsible for the crash of the shuttle Columbia (and a near miss just recently.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:09 pmPlease don't feed those trolls. They are not smart enough to comprehend logic or facts. It isn't their fault. It is inbreeding.
Take a look here:
September 13th, 2005 at 6:09 pmhttp://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
#22, did you read on Media Matters that now Rush Bimbaugh is saying that the Clinton-era budget surplus is just a Democratic talking point? I emailed Rush and told him to call the OMB.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:12 pmGreat, if he's taking full responsibilty, lets send him the bill! What's it up to..$100 billion? Plus, can we slip him the bill for Iraq, too?
September 13th, 2005 at 6:20 pmShit people, all I see from this excellent work from Think Progress is Bush bashing (which is wonderful), but broaden it to the GOP skels that control every aspect of our lives from lack of science to corruption of our children. THE REPUBLICAN SKEL CONGRESS IS OUR FOCUS FOR THE NEXT YEAR! More than half of this list, is the republican whore congress’s doing. Let us end every statement with something like "power, corruption and GOP whores".
September 13th, 2005 at 6:20 pmThe loss of the supreme court (and all the other courts) during this term needs to be put at the feet Bob Shrum. If the had been as smart as Cheney was about dealing with the divisive issues we would have had the votes to get moderate judicial candidates who would in fact have provided the civil rights that the left wanted.
The New Yorker Magazine did a piece that showed the top priorities of Kerry's Campaign Manager
"Shrum and Oates believe in many of the same liberal causes, with gay rights near the top of the list. The gay activist and writer David Mixner, who worked with Oates in Eugene McCarthy's 1968 campaign, considers her his best friend and Shrum one of his oldest friends. She's been one of the biggest champions of gay-and-lesbian rights as has Bob since 1978, he said."
"Mixner, who lives in Washington, said that between the nineteen-eighties and the early nineties nearly three hundred friends of his died of aids, and in that period the Shrums gave time and money to help build primary-care network of support for people with aids. Oates is today the official liaison of the gay-and-lesbian community to the Kerry finance committee. "
"...Later, Shrum sat on the edge of a couch in a hotel suite with Oates, David Mixner, and another gay-activist friend, Jeff Soref. He wanted to see John Edwards¡¦s acceptance speech, and he preferred to watch on television. Keeping his eyes on the screen, he sipped Cabernet Sauvignon, ate popcorn, quivered every time a cell phone rang, and moved his lips along with the speech, announcing at various points.."
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040920fa_fact4
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/sage/images/kerry-divorce.gif
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050904/480/laeg10709042123
September 13th, 2005 at 6:25 pmJust what the hell did he MEAN by saying he accepted full responsibility? Ever since Reagan first used those words I've thought, "What a perfectly meaningless way to deflect criticism!" After all, he accepted responsibility; what more could anyone ask?
The man's a blight on the world (not that that's news to anyone who reads Think Progress).
September 13th, 2005 at 6:28 pmCitizen80203 - You are so right, time to switch gears. Bush can't be re-elected, but our Congress can.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:32 pmIt's time to hit them where it hurts, re-electon!!!! Start pulling out their voting records, make them accountable for how they voted, demand answers, put the fear of the PEOPLE, into them!
He took responsiblity for driving drunk too!!. (He paid $500)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushdui1.html
But we let him go on and on and on. Doesn't this sound like Iraq and New Orleans?
"MADD believes that drinking and driving is a choice that the driver makes and therefore it is intentional. A drunk driver knows or should know that getting behind the wheel will likely cause serious injury or death to him/herself or innocent people on the roadways. In MADD's opinion, as well as the opinions of several state courts, this conduct is enough to raise the culpability level to that of a violent crime. "
http://www.madd.org/news/0,1056,9029,00.html
http://www.madd.org/activism/0,1056,1370,00.html
At least Laura got it over with after killing one person.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp
September 13th, 2005 at 6:46 pmJane, you are right on all your point's. Think it was Bushes butt buddie Tom Delay who snuck in the 68 billion dollar oil company give aways as an amendment 3 weeks ago. Not posative on the amount but huge and a slight flurry from the house and senate because he snuck it in late at night on the appropiation bill that had already gone through votes. Randy #11 thats one of the big reason why gas has gone up the other reason is many of the Bush bunch have huge holdings with diffrent oil firms, it's in their best intrest to keep the prices up. Rice I think is big with Texaco. Intrests and profets go up when stocks are in trusts as usual..Now Bush co want's to drill everywhere instead of implimenting conservation methods. Oh well!...Blessings
September 13th, 2005 at 6:56 pmCNN headline today: US world position in education is slipping. So much for No Child Left Behind.
September 13th, 2005 at 7:37 pmBush had more than one drunk driving ticket, and he had one of driving under the influence of drugs. His pappy got him out of that arrest after he spent about 5 hours at the Houston jail and was allowed his phone call.
When elected gov. of Texas the first thing that Bush did was have the DMV to erase his driving record.
In 1999 Bush promised his Texas oil buddies that if he got elected president he would get the price per barrel over $35 a barrel so that it would be profitable for them to drill and make money.
Dou you realize how well his oild drilling buddies are doing at $65 a barrel? If you dont believe it, check it out. I did.
September 13th, 2005 at 7:41 pmBush said he accepts responsibility. Ok. Now what?
September 13th, 2005 at 7:44 pmAs Rotwang says "watch this drive!"
Rove told him that the poll numbers need a boost. So he said the word. No word of what he was going to do about it. No word of constructive plans to improve our safety. It will be business as usualy, Cronies, Inc. getting the assignments and projects, with nothing substantive in sight.
The public knows now that we are NOT safe. And the Bush people are clueless. They have wasted four years and billions of dollars, layered on bureaucracy -- like Bush himself -- all hat, no cattle.
Well, well, well... now that Bush has admitted responsibility for the lapses of the feds during the Katrina debacle, the MSM will probably go back to sleep and we will be inundated with the Natalee Holloway disapperance again. Let us revel in the Jen and Brad and Angelina triangle some more.
This is just his way of covering his ass so that he will seem more credible so as to possibly make the John Roberts confirmation hearings proceed to a favorable outcome (for him and his cronies).
By the way, #2 Rotwang, excellent reply!
September 13th, 2005 at 7:47 pmWe are photogenic.
http://www.stern.de/politik/panorama/545852.html?eid=544995&s=0&nv=ex_rt
He is not.
http://www.truthout.org/
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September 13th, 2005 at 7:55 pmGood one Bush Babes. He's posing with more Vicente Fox outcasts and Busty Lusty. I'll bet he was thinking "Boy, these hurricanes are more fun than I thought"!
September 13th, 2005 at 8:12 pm#34,
September 13th, 2005 at 8:46 pmMarie, that's no child to excell. Where is Texas ranked after this program? 50 I believe. Get your children out of public schools before its too late. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Did anyone hear him apologize? When is he going to say, "Gee, I'm Sorry. It was my responsibility to keep those people safe and I fucked up."
September 13th, 2005 at 9:17 pmIn a short statement on Tuesday, George W. Bush completely undermined the entire premise for his second term as President.
"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government...Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack? That's a very important question and it's in the national interest that we find out what went on so we can better respond."
For the full story, see:
"George W. Bush: Security Risk."
September 13th, 2005 at 10:00 pm"Bush Accepts Full Responsibility"
Well, when nothing else works...
September 13th, 2005 at 11:07 pmMy favorite:
“In terms of the American taxpayers contribution, [$1.7 billion] is it for the US. The rest of the rebuilding of Iraq will be done by other countries and Iraqi oil revenues…The American part of this will be 1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this.†– USAID Director Andrew Natsios, 4/23/03
The true costs of $1T are equivalent to losing all our k-12 education infrastructure.
September 13th, 2005 at 11:45 pmDISASTER ACCOMPLISHED! Congratulations Mr. son of a bush.
NO RESIGN!
September 14th, 2005 at 12:12 amNOW RESIGN!
September 14th, 2005 at 12:12 am#15, if the minimum wage is increased, the trolls would just blow it on new computers. Keep them mad and poor.
We'll just help the smart poor by private means. It is THE ONLY WORKING rescue effort in normal life or in times of a natural/man made disaster.
September 14th, 2005 at 12:17 amThe items from #22 plus:
* Ignoring and not enforcing EPA regulations which have further destroyed our environment.
September 14th, 2005 at 6:51 am* Creating the biggest corporate welfare state ever; handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in no bid contracts to FOB(Friend of Bush) corporations
* Using Orwellian doublespeak at every turn to confuse the electorate to push his radical agenda
* Cutting taxes, primarily on the well-off, at a completely inappropriate time in the economic cycle thus ensuring record deficits
* Criminal neglect of his responsibility to protect and defend the people of this country. We deserve a government as good as the people of this country.
…and on, and on….
I can see him slipping the noose around his own neck now.
September 14th, 2005 at 8:33 am4 years and counting to catch his nemisis: Wanted Dead Or Alive: Osama bin Laden.
Secrecy in government.
FOIA information stalled.
Amtrak and other useful infrastructure denied.
EPA lawsuits stalled. Science? What's that?
The challenge is to name one thing that is really done well by BushCo for the most Americans.
September 14th, 2005 at 9:28 amThe other day we learned that the Davis-Bacon act requiring federal minimum wages is being suspended. Today we learn that a similar suspension is being employed against service industry personnel. So, the corps. will see windfall profits on the misery of poor people, who will not be paid fair wages to clean up the worst of the mess in the gulf states. That is if local people are employed at all!
September 14th, 2005 at 10:35 amBTW, Cheney placed a phone call on the weekend of the storm, directing that the oil pipeline to the East coast be kept open, taking people away from the immediate tasks at hand.
It's all about priorities with them. Priorities=profit.
Where's Osama Bin Laden?
September 14th, 2005 at 11:07 amuh.... about that "environmentalists" keeping refineries from being built... this is a total falsehood. as memos from oil companies recently released proved, they wanted to keep refinery capactiy down because they would make less profit....it was all over the internet last week or the week before. look it up.
September 14th, 2005 at 11:10 am#51 don't you mean Osama Been-Forgotten?
September 14th, 2005 at 12:22 pmJunior is not only taking "full responsibility" but wants to know "what went right and what went wrong." What a dimwitted, sorry-assed excuse for a leader. Hey, Junior, here's eight answers that can go at the head of your list and I don't even need a committee to point it out for me:
What went right:
1. You finally hauled you ass in off vacation, although it was 3 days too late.
2. Gov. Blanco requested "all you've got" and any intelligent leader with half a brain would have figured it also ment military support.
3. Your later photo ops, complete with sleeves rolled up before you even got off the helicopter, and hugging several black victims played down your total ineffectiveness as a leader.
4. This flap got the public's mind off the failures in Iraq; Cindy Sheehan; and Karl Rove's CIA Leak connection.
What went wrong:
1. You cut the New Orleans FEMA budget in June by 71 million dollars, dumbass.
2. You replaced FEMA administrators with emergency experience with your political cronies.
3. You failed to supervise your cabnet ministers assuring that the help Gov. Blanco requested before the hurricane hit was being deployed.
4. When possible, act BEFORE a disaster strikes, not three days afterward.
Now try staying on the job----which is what the hell you were elected to do. I'm just glad we had not been faced with a "nuklar" attack as, once again, you sure as hell weren't watching out the public safety.
September 14th, 2005 at 2:32 pmI've finally figured it out, Repugnacans take their marching orders from "Patches" O'Houlihan from the movie Dodgeball.
September 14th, 2005 at 10:23 pmDodge
Deflect
Dissemble
Deny
and...
Dodge
What little energy i could muster after the media event led to the impeachment of Clinton, I tried discussing the upcoming Bush vs. Gore election with some friends; albeit evangelicals. These college educated friends left logic at the doorstep and a strange debate ensued. I am not too bright myself but my friends switched into some alternate personalities and gave up free thinking comments for a few well planned media bites. After the election I gave up, went on antidepressants, and remind myself that our goal is to totally cahnge the process of aquiring political candidates and educating people about their capabilities. Too tall an order perhaps for this country.
September 14th, 2005 at 10:32 pmBush is not only the worst president in the history of this nation,but the worst person for this country during. I would very much like to know if any one person in history has done more damage to this country,its population its economy its foreign relations etc.
September 14th, 2005 at 10:53 pmHenry, I bet you could ask historians and while there have been lousy presidents, they would be hard pressed to find one worse than this one. In every single area. There is NO PLACE that has improved if he touched it - domestic, foreign, global - he is a disaster.
September 14th, 2005 at 11:30 pmI wasn't overly fond of Daddy Bush, but the man must cry alot in bathrooms, after he hears his son talking on TV. Bet he tells Barb, wish we had that 'morning after' pill, before we got junior. At least Jeb, can put together a sentence.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:08 amYep! I have been wishing for 5 plus years that birth control was retro active...Blessings
September 15th, 2005 at 4:12 amThe President "taking responsibility" is just empty words. When Clinton apologized for his little tryst, the Republicans impeached him, (but no one DIED, and we wasted time, money, and distracted energy). Now Bush apologizes by "taking responsibility" - thousands of people are DEAD in New Orleans, Mississippi, and overseas, (in a war that stinks to high heaven) - shouldn't Bush be impeached?
September 18th, 2005 at 11:07 amPerfect summary of Bush
Please take the time to look at this little blurb that points out all of the great things that have happened since W took over. It really is amazing what he has done for, er I mean, TO our country.
...
September 18th, 2005 at 9:51 pm*
Soon after the horror of Hurricane Katrina, Americans were subjected to another high wind warning when Jesse Jackson and Howard Dean began exploiting the situation for perceived political gain. All of this while hundreds of Americans died in front of a stunned population watching on television. . Jackson immediately brought race to the forefront (what a shock) and said blacks were treated like they were on “slave ships.â€
Dean pointed out that the poor got hammered, and that was Bush’s fault because of tax cuts for the rich or some such nonsense. Jackson and Dean ran around grabbing cameras and microphones, howling at the moon.
Here are some very interesting facts: In 1996, the poverty level in the USA stood at 13.7%. In 2004, the poverty level was 12.7%, so Bush beats Clinton here by a full percentage point. To be fair, Clinton did bring the poverty rate down during his administration, while it has been rising slightly since 9/11. But at the halfway point, Bush wins.
As far as entitlement spending on poverty programs is concerned, it isn’t even close. In 1996, President Clinton signed a budget that directed 12.2% of spending be directed toward the poor. In 2004, Bush’s budget kicked 2% more than Clinton to poverty programs, an astronomical $329 billion dollars. In fact, President Bush is spending more on poverty entitlement programs and education than any President in history. But still Jesse and Howard rave on.
In 2006, almost $368 billion dollars will go for Medicaid, food stamps, family support assistance, supplemental security income, child nutrition programs, earned income tax credits, welfare payments, child care payments, foster care and adoption assistance, and child health insurance payments to the states. The truth is that the working men and women of this country are providing the tightest safety net in history for the poor. And our private charitable donations rank first in the world as well.
The race and class baiters will always ignore the fact that some people simply cannot support themselves no matter what society does. The New Testament states it clearly: “the poor, they will always be with us.†But America provides more opportunity for more people than anywhere else on the planet.
I hope the facts don’t startle you too much.
Comment by Bobby Head — September 15, 2005 @ 5:53 pm
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s abrupt decision Wednesday night to take responsibility for her state’s inadequate response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster followed an inadvertent confession that was caught on camera where Blanco admitted she blew it.
“I really should have called for the military,†Blanco said, while chatting with her press secretary in between TV interviews. “I really should have started that in the first call.â€
Unbeknownst to Blanco, her bombshell acknowledgment was recorded on a network satellite feed, and by Tuesday the clip was getting wide exposure in Louisiana news broadcasts.
In the early days of the Katrina crisis, disaster management experts repeatedly blamed the failure to send in the National Guard for the city’s descent into chaos.
Most observers blamed the White House for the blunder - a misconception that was thoroughly dispelled by the governor’s inadvertent confession.
Some say Blanco’s blooper was responsible for the abrupt change of tone in her speech Wednesday night to the Louisiana legislature.
Where earlier she and her aides had openly blamed the Bush administration for bungling Katrina rescue efforts, Blanco announced: “The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.â€
Just as surprising were Blanco’s words of praise for the White House: “I want the people of Louisiana to know that we have a friend and a partner in President George W. Bush. I thank you, Mr. President.â€
September 20th, 2005 at 3:22 pmWell, Governor…it’s better late than never.
[...] And while our esteemed president is in this rare "taking responsibility mood", I found (on a liberal website: thinkprogress.org - but the list is referenced nicely, so I have no problem posting it) a list of other things that he should take responsibility for: Taking Full Responsibility [...]
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