bush takes responsibility? Well, not really.

[Karmageddon]

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bush takes responsibility? Well, not really.
Wally
September 14 2005

When I first heard the words "I take responsibility" emanate from the mouth of the Blithering Idiot in Chief, my brain went into a series of mental contortions that would have impressed M.C. Escher.

The first response was shock and disbelief. Stunned would be a good word to describe it. After reading the words two or three times and letting the comprehension sink in, my first thought was "well dip my balls in sweet cream and squat me in a kitchen full of kittens, the sonofabitch has finally taken responsibility for something." This would quite possibly be a first time event in his life. Certainly a first since I've been watching him.

Once the first few moments of initial shock passed, however, logic and reason returned. After 5 1/2 years of these snake oil salesmen in control, it was completely beyond belief that they would actually take responsibility for anything. It had to be a trick. Unka karl put him up to this, wrote down the line for captain clueless to read, and made him stand in front of a mirror and practice saying it over and over until he got it right, paying special attention to the word "re-spon-si-bi-li-ty" because it's a long word and it might be hard work to pronounce it.

But still, bush, accepting responsibility. What's the catch? There has to be a catch. That's when I went back and re-read the whole statement:

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, and to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do it's job right, I take responsibility."

Sure, he takes responsibility, but that is one holy mother of a "qualifying statement" attached to that responsibility. "to the extent that the federal government" (not me, the other parts of the federal government - THOSE guys over there) "didn't fully do it's job right" (define "Fully" doing it's job right - he's leaving himself miles of wiggle room here). The first part of the statement is also rather telling: "problems in our response capability" (not in our execution of the response, but in the capability) "at all levels of government" (the state and local guys didn't have the capability, and that caused the feds to not be able to execute their part fully).

He's not taking responsibility at all. He gave himself a half dozen outs in the way he worded that statement. Yet, he used the word responsibility. He said "I take responsibility" so that all the freepers and dittomonkeys can now rave about what a great leader he is and how accountable and heroic he is, how he is taking responsibility for other people's failings. How many hours or days will it be until we hear him being compared favorably to Harry "The Buck Stops Here" Truman on the radio and TV? How long until his poll numbers climb back into the 40's? That's what this is all about. It's not about responsibility, it's about P.R. It's about covering his sorry ass. It's about pretending to be large and in charge in order to try to regain the trust of the right wing christo-fascist nazi brigade.

His speech on Thursday night will be more of the same. "I take responsibility - sort of. Just like I did after 9/11. Remember 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, freedom, democracy, terror, sacrifice, spreading freedom, compassion, 9/11, freedom, democracy 9/11" and by the end of the speech the brainwashed freepers will be crying in their kool-aid over what a great leader he is. The rest of us, who have the intestinal fortitude to watch it at all, will be busy mopping up our own vomit.

The boy-king is once again being manipulated by his puppet masters. Soon (if it hasn't started already) the right wing freakshow (rush, oreally, hannity, etc) will be singing his praises to the adoring masses. They will in turn blindly follow along like good little nazi's in the belief that, although it appears at first glance that the emperor has no clothes, that tiny little tassel dangling below his navel is really an adornment on a new outfit. I'm sure they'll think it looks "fabulous."



(posted in full with permission of the author)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Bush's statement doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!

[Karmageddon]

3. LOL But he's afraid of cows.

[Martin Eden]

2. Taking responsibility and DOING the responsible thing are different THINGS

The time to BE responsible was long before Katrina ever struck, and his announcement that's he's RESPONSIBLE now has a lot more to do with political damage control than actually changing the way he governs.

ACCOUNTABILITY is another thing, and probably too late to be applied to this pathetic excuse of a president.

[emulatorloo]

4. To the extent that there might be a buck, it could stop here

EOM

[txaslftist]

5. Spot On. Dead On. Nominated.

He no more took responsibility than he ever has.

What a fucking copout of an apology.

I accept his apology "to the extent" he resigns.

[texpatriot2004]

6. Well said. Nominated. Personally, IMHO he is as naked as ever

IMHO