It's called ACCOUNTABILITY

[radfringe]

Brown is whining about being made into a "scapegoat" and is clueless as to why he was removed, the bushies are running around pooh-poohing the mess as a blame game.

It's not scapegoating and it's not a blame game -- it's called ACCOUNTABILITY!

In the wake of the ENRON debacle - bush* said CEO's must be held accountable. CEOs are now required to sign off on financial reports as one way to hold people accountable.

Republicans, for many years, have screamed about taking responsibility - yet they hide in the bushes and madly spin when faced with taking responsibility.

bush* cites similarities of September 11, 2001 to the FEMA disaster - but left out the part about ignoring reports stating "BIN-LADEN Determined to Attack", 3-4 days of news/weather reports prior to Katrina making landfall and several years of reports about the probability of levees failing. Pooh-pooh they say - this is finger pointing, scapegoating, playing the blame game.

Abu Ghraib is another example of spin -- it was just a few bad apples having fun.

Then there's the matter of Rove's treason in revealing CIA agent name. bush* first said leakers would be fired, then it changed to leakers who are convicted of a crime would be fired.

And then there's the whole pack of lies about why we invaded Iraq in the first place.

The bushies have failed to take responsibility, and Congress has failed to hold the bush* mis-adminstration accountable.

It's going to be up to the American people to demand accountabilty and if there is no public outcry, if congressional offices and news media are not flooded with e-mails, phone calls, letters demanding accountability - then the American people have no one to blame but themselves. (how's that for scapegoating and finger pointing?)



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Brown Doesn't Know Why He Was Removed
By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer -- Sat Sep 10,12:37 AM ET

WASHINGTON - A beleaguered Michael Brown said Friday he doesn't know why he was removed from his onsite command of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, but he does know the first thing he'll do when he returns to Washington.

"I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife, and maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep," Brown told The Associated Press. "And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims."


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Brown said he will still oversee FEMA, including housing, victims' assistance and other aspects of Katrina recovery efforts. But he may not be there for long, according to two officials close to Brown who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss his plans.

They said the FEMA chief had been planning to retire after the hurricane season, and Friday's action virtually assures his departure.

[tsuki]

1. Bush has never had to take personal responsibility his entire

life. He has never been held accountable. He just walks away and lets others take the heat.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. What did he think, sycophancy or dupe, no other way in ShrubCo!

Culpability is the price you pay, when you agree to enter into the " Good Old Boy " network.