"I take responsibility"

[Child_Of_Isis]

Shrub just said that concerning the failure of the response to Katrina. I am stroking out.

[deadparrot]

1. *falls over*

THUD.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. He's really determined to climb back up in the polls

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URGENT yet easy! Hold the government accountable for Katrina's aftermath
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[malta blue]

3. Is the sky falling?

[donco6]

4. No way. This isn't April 1st.

who you tryin' ta kid?

[MissMarple]

5. Responsibility for WHAT? He'll backtrack.

Because it just wasn't his fault. :eyes:

[underpants]

6. They ran out of ways to spin it

Must suck to be them now.

*sigh* W will probably end up getting credit for failure again.

[still_one]

12. you are right, no way they could spin it

now they will come out and say how courageous he is for accepting responsibility

they play the media like the fool they are

[gkhouston]

14. THIS is the new spin. He's going to try being noble at

taking everyone else's failure upon himself, while subtly (and not so subtly) implying that he isn't really to blame, but as president, he must shoulder the blame for everyone else's shortcomings because that's what a Leader does. Watch it happen.

[crispini]

19. Ding! You get the gold star.

Oh, I am so old and cynical. :smoke:

[gkhouston]

31. dammit Crispy, that better not be a *real* ciggy

or I'm gonna send Sparky over there to :spank: you.

[Solly Mack]

20. I agree

and they're going to find accepting responsibility plays so well they'll wonder why they never used that tactic before..cause it is a tactic...Bush doesn't mean it.

[gkhouston]

32. I'm not sure it's going to work, though... they've waited so long

to do it that to many people it's going to look like what it is... a ploy. If he'd done this last week, I think he could have pulled his ass out of the fire. I think it may be too late now.

[Solly Mack]

36. I think it's way too late and maybe most Americans will too

but we all know the bots will hammer it home like you said..."leader doing what a leader does"

I was being facetious as well....being honest never occurs to them so it being a novel approach for them they will be shocked how much better honesty is

[underpants]

21. Good call- I was just getting ready to write a RW speech template

to be used by all their people as they attempt to enshrine W.


I would like the thank President Bush for taking responsibility ...taking responsibility is something we Republicans do....the President showed great leadership in taking responsibility even for those who shouldered some of the blame themselves but sought only to blame others.....

[WiseButAngrySara]

33. Oh Gag...I can hear it already. Full responsibility for NEGLIGENT

HOMICIDE? Full responsibility for MASS MURDER? NO, his "full responsibility" is likely to cast blame on others.

[underpants]

35. Legacy Building

That's what I smell. Expect the gushing guffaws of W's honesty and "doing what is right" despite what is best for him.

(rasies back of hand to furrowed brow) Oh my he is ... he is so selfless in the face of relentless blame (Scarlett O'Hara southern accent gets really heavy here) what a fine fine man he is. He cares not what others will think of him only what is right and true and just in this dangerous dangerous world.

Trust me this is what is coming. The stinch will be worse than W's mess in New Orleans.

[ultraist]

30. I agree. They exhausted all other avenues. He was doomed in the polls

So they had no choice but to try this approach.

It's a novel approach from them! Mr. "I cannot recall a single mistake" is trying something new. Hmmm...

Watch for this to be their new theme, reving up for the midterms and the 08 GE: taking responsibility is something we Republicans do....the President showed great leadership in taking responsibility even for those who shouldered some of the blame themselves but sought only to blame others.....~Underpants

And by default they are saying:
'Democrats have no solutions, are weak do nothings who simply play the blame game.'

[understandinglife]

7. Then he should resign immediately. And that should be everyone's demand.

Peace.

[SmokingJacket]

24. Exactly. Otherwise what does it mean?

He accepts responsibility, but then what's he going to do about it?

If it's just words, who cares?

[Solly Mack]

8. Wow....someone must have told him Americans could forgive a mistake

because you know the asswipe doesn't mean it

[Birthmark]

9. Good, then he needs to resign.

This isn't some minor political indiscretion. We're talking about the deaths of American civilians. People who died of neglect on his watch.

The only honorable course is for Bush to resign. NOW!

[BringEmOn]

10. What did he say? "I take full responsibility...but not the blame." ???

[maine_raptor]

11. Sounded like that was a planted question and

a planted answer.

Of course he takes responsibility...he's Prez. But don't worry this "claim" will be watered down (pun intended) by cries of "local and state government at fault".

[Skidmore]

13. Wow! The polls must be a lot worse than they are letting on.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. perfect strategy -- focus the blame on Blanco for 2 weeks and then

accept the blame...

[Pithy Cherub]

16. Great!!! Now GIVE some accountability to the idiots (& self)

that made this disaster and resign!

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. Riiiight. He says it, but doesn't mean it.

He's never taken responsibility for ANYTHING he's done wrong in his life. It's just words to him.:eyes:

[ComerPerro]

29. He's just going through the motions.

He will never actually take responsibility.

This way, they set it up so that even though he is "taking responsibility", it seems to the Bush loyalists that he is doing so because no one else would accept responsibility. They are trying to make it look like its not Bush's fault in any way, but that he is taking responsibility anyway because he is just "that kind of guy".

Its BS.

[omshanti]

18. so, when's he stepping down??

I just wanna know. I would give up my firstborn to see it (ok, well not really).

[leeroysphitz]

22. What more could you ask for?

Oh yeah... Impeachment or resignation.

[Writer]

23. Okay, George, so tell me - how did you fail?

They're just words. Just words.

[Imagevision]

25. BUSH: "I take full responsibility" ...Now let's move on...!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Connie_Corleone]

26. And Scott McClellan will say later...

"What the president meant to say was that he takes responsibility for what the federal government does from this point on."

[symbolman]

27. If he accepts responsibility

then he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for negligence, etc..

Let's Show him that there is a price to PAY for accepting responsibility, a LEGAL one.

Hey, this could be good.. Bush accepts responsibility, Cheney has a heart attack and dies in disbelief and feeling full betrayal, as Hastart runs to McClellan to get him to spin the message he falls and hits his head on the podium - we IMPEACH BUSH and then.. then..

PRESIDENT BYRD takes OVER :)

[ObaMania]

28. Yeah?

Just setting up the new Scotty and M$M meme.. "He's accepted partial responsibility, now move on"

Lying prick!

[windbreeze]

34. So is he saying then

that the Feds ARE responsible, after spending the last two weeks pointing fingers at the state of LA?...and IF SO....how about we demand accountability!....empty words from an empty man with an empty soul...and now that all the "undesireable" people they wanted out of NO are successfully spread all over the states...what does he have to lose with that small show of humble?...When you consider he can't accept responsibility for something that they maintain, wasn't their fault, how much importance can be attached to his statement? NONE...play on words is all it is..and you can bet your ass, someone is waiting in the wings to explain what he really meant, and of course, it wasn't what he said...LOL...almost hilarious...
windbreeze