Bush Takes Reponsibility for Blunders

[noahmijo]

Yea you read that right.

I was waiting for monkeys to start flying out of my ass when I read this but there it is for the first time ever the boy kind admits he's a total fuck up.

Gotta love the picture there Yahoo choose to put too.

Watch now as repugts pilot this story as a "See he is a man of conviction and morality he admits when he is wrong...UNLIKE CLINTON!!!"

I swear if his poll numbers climb even a percentage I will be furious. You should not be rewarded for fucking up and then admitting to it.


WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that "I take responsibility" for failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and said the disaster raised broader questions about the government's ability to respond to natural disasters as well as terror attacks.

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"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government," Bush said at joint White House news conference with the president of Iraq.

"To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050913/ap_on_go_ot/katrina_washington_15;_ylt=AskpphTFC0oukM5o5ZpvXc0bLisB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[Skittles]

1. well, he will know how to answer the question next f***ing time

won't he?

"The President has done the obvious, only after it was clear he couldn’t get away with the inexcusable."
-- Josh Marshall

[Freedom Socialist]

2. Yeah...

But is Limbaugh still blaming...uhhhh...Nagin? Nayger? uhh...That other offensive word?

[hardrainfallin]

3. the picture: you gotta wonder what's coming out the other end

[democrank]

4. Big deal, Bush.

CYA because of plummeting polls. The guy is a disgrace.

[gratuitous]

5. Let the Republicans do the "he really meant" dance

We should just keep hammering on the point that Bush is responsible for the catastrophic failures in the Gulf States.

Let the Republicans try to parse and dance and tap their feeble way along to tell us all what Bush really meant to say. That shoe's been on the other foot enough times, and this time we have the added advantage of using Bush's own words to blame Bush for the excessive losses from Hurricane Katrina.

Doggone, this is easy. No wonder it's the weapon of choice for the Mighty Republican Wurlitzer. Let's get cranking on the Democratic Kazoo and catapult a little propaganda of our own.

[Mr_Spock]

6. Yeah, I see the pigs landing in the trees outside

This indeed is a strange event.

[hardrainfallin]

7. I just watched that clip

He is SLOSHED.

He's slurring his speech.

Look at him.

He's fucking DRUNK

Piss test. Now.

[noahmijo]

16. LMAO sorry you aren't trying to be funny but

you made me laugh with that....even though it's true.

[hardrainfallin]

23. Sorry. I just got back from teaching a class

on KAFKA....

and made no bones about it to my students:

we are currently experiencing, live in the flesh, a truly, truly

Kafkaesque

reality.

I repeat: piss test. Now.

[Frustratedlady]

8. Incredible! Wha' hoppen'd?

I truly never thought I'd live long enough to EVER hear GW apologize for anything. There's hope for our country, yet!

Maybe Blanco and Nagin got a piece of him on this last tour. There was a decided difference in his demeanor.

[garybeck]

9. it's a sign that people are pissed

you can only spin things so far. when people keep expressing their discontent you must address it at some point. continuing to ignore it will bury you. looks like we finally reached that point.

[KingFlorez]

10. He's trying to save himself

But, It's too late for that. Stick him with a fork he's done and burnt to a crisp

[nonconformist]

11. Hell has just froze over. nt

[emulatorloo]

12. Bush "still hasn’t figured out the difference between spin and leadership

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2087652

“This Administration still hasn’t figured out the difference between spin and leadership. The President has done the obvious, only after it was clear he couldn’t get away with the inexcusable. President Bush has accepted Michael Brown’s resignation and admitted the buck stops in the Oval Office. But there are a lot of survivors who want to know whether this will change anything. Does the White House even understand the problem? The Administration had four years after September 11th to get this right, and they were caught unforgivably unprepared to deal with a major emergency here at home. Do they now understand that our government’s efforts and resources have been going to the wrong priorities? What are they doing to make sure this never happens again other than talking tough talk?”

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. no. no reread it

wht he did in bureocratize means, lets try to make the shit flow down, as much as we can... reach for them waders, it is gonna get very deep down here...

[Redstone]

14. Just another lie, spoken purely for PR purposes. And from the reaction

here, I guess it's working...or maybe it's just that people WANT him to have some shred of decency and honesty, even though he doesn't.

Redstone

[Whoa_Nelly]

17. Correct, Redstone. And what needs to be noted is...

Bush said. "I want to know what went right and what went wrong."

This is too similar to his statement regarding the outing of Valerie Plame. By stating he "takes responsibility" means absolutely nothing beyond trying to exert more damage control, and to take the focus off the real issues involved in how badly things went went wrong and how he totally fucked up. In part, the hidden response is that it's NOT HIS FAULT! This also could represent the preface to a completely partisan investigation that he wants to head; the statement of him leading an investigation re: Katrina that has pretty much disappeared from the WH media spin when he first stated this is what he wanted. Don't fool yourself for a minute that this more than likely Roverian tactic has been forgotten as part of a larger plan that is in the works.

As is par for the course, and well worth paying attention to, is that whatever this asswipe says, he means and/or does the opposite. This has been his MO in the political arena, as well as his personal life, for many years.

[oasis]

25. Rove really had to really massage an admission from out of this jerk.

He speaks with such reluctance. And waaaaaaay too late.

[INdemo]

26. Write this down

Rove's political savvy is going to work ..He is going to steer that idiot through this with the help of the networks CNN,Faux,and MSNBC and well all the others including CBS
Come on Democratic leaders..keep the spotlight on these liars for what they truly are...

[Redstone]

27. Well-spoken, indeed. DU will be a better place for having you here,

I'm sure of that. And I'm also sure that you're 100% correct.

Welcome to DU.

Redstone

[zoeb]

15. "Blunders"...

plural...does that mean he takes responsibility for 911, the lives lost in Iraq, the idiots he hired to help make policy, like Tenet, Rumsfield, Rice and Cheney?

[Postman]

18. taking responsibility without paying any consequences means nothing.

Will he resign?

Will he be impeached?

Will he jump off a cliff?

No. No. and No.

[hypovex]

20. absolutley

couldn't have said it better

[hypovex]

19. responsibility schmonsibility

It's tactical p.r.

The writing between the lines reads "yeah, yeah, we fucked up, get over it"

[noahmijo]

21. well that's the way I'm seeing it

the happy side of me is out for the fact that the punk has finally been forced to at least HINT that he totally fucked up.

But the angry side of me knows it is just in fact a pr stunt to make himself look like a victim.

[opihimoimoi]

22. If so, then he must resign...if it can happen here in NOLA, think of what

can Happen to a larger Event....

When Coaches have a Losing Record..usually they get fired or they resign for the betterment of the Team... Bush is not a true Leader, he is a Peter of the worst Degree.

[Generator]

24. The question is

well there are many, of course. Does he realize (and I'm not being sarcasitc if would be easier if i was) that he is the head of the federal government? That his job of protecting citizens-all citizens in every piece of land that is included in America is his job? His first job? I keep saying he's NOT PRESIDENT OF IRAQ. America is his first responsiblity. It trumps all others. It trumps his VACATION. Does he realize that being on vacation while the worst natural disaster that has happened to this land possibly ever is about the worst sign of LEADERSHIP possible. The president doesn't get to have a vacation if the nation is in peril. The people of the country come BEFORE his own ass. It's not an ordinary job. It's not a business. It's not politics. It's the responsiblity of lives of millions of people and it all falls at his door. Does he get any of that? I don't think so. It's somebody else that screwed up and they were in his government and that's all he's admitted to. He hasn't taken any personal responsiblity to even show that he gets what being President and COMMANDER in CHIEF means. Just like 9/11. AWOL.