BUSH TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR KATRINA FUCK UP

[Modem Butterfly]

Check out CNN.com


There is a god, and he digs beignets and Cafe du Monde...

[Modem Butterfly]

1. Here's a link

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WBT003818.htm

[Bumblebee]

8. Is it Reuters or Bush

who does not know how to spell?

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

Drives me nuts when people confuse "its" and "it's"

[txaslftist]

12. Pretty major qualifiers there...

..."to the extent"...that the "federal" government didn't "fully" do it's job right.....

In other words, the State and local governments fucked this thing up, the feds did things right except in some minor ways... I take responsibility for those little errors...

not that I personally did anything wrong, of course...
no one could have predicted the levies breaking...

but, hey, I'm a big man. I'll admit that much.

worthless words.

[Jacobin]

17. to the extent

in other words.....after he investigates himself and finds he did nothing wrong, this taking responsibility bullshit will be inoperable.

[txaslftist]

23. Bingo.

[SteppingRazor]

2. Aw, not you too, MB...

You actually believe this guy when he says this? After he just called his performance "extraordinary" yesterday? C'mon! You're better than this, bubba! :evilgrin:

[Modem Butterfly]

5. I'm just amazed that the words actually came out of his mouth

Doesn't mean I put much stock in them. I'm sort of surprised he didn't fake a seizure or something to avoid actually having to say the words...

[titoresque]

26. The good news is that

shit must REALLY be hitting the fan.....for this thug to get out there and even mutter these words....you know it's bad!

:)

[malmapus]

29. Same here, thats gotta be first time those words came out of that mouth

in that particular order ever.

[quaoar]

3. I heard the same thing

After I picked my jaw up off the floor I checked outside my window to see if the world had come to an end.

[lancdem]

4. He's probably hoping a very late mea culpa will save him

Like everything else, this is calculated, of course.

[July]

19. Yep, classic Rovian changing of the subject.

But it will only help him with a portion of his base, IMO, unless some significant actions follow -- e.g., firings, real investigations, sincere efforts to help the victims and give them back their homes. The qualifiers in his statement suggest we will be back to the usual public relations efforts rather than real leadership.

For most people, it will still be a day late and a dollar short. Bush's credibility has been irreparably shattered for many people, and the bad news out of New Orleans will be coming for some time.

It's a last-ditch PR effort, because they see how unpopular Bush is becoming. Rove hopes everyone will be talking about what a big man Bush is to "take blame" and hopes everyone forgets that an "I'm sorry" with no followup is just empty words.

The media will try to help Bush out. The rest of us will try to tune them out. We'll soon see how much genius Rove has and how much influence the media has.

[paula777]

6. OMFG - this is a first. This tells you just out of control they know

they are. Nice

[libertypirate]

7. This isn't even good BS

Sorry, I don't see this as anything more then appeasement so they can ride out their fuckup.

Responsibility is not Accountability

[Bumblebee]

10. then, Mr. Bush, how come you did not FIRE Brown? and

Mr. Card, according to Brown, did not even "encourage" him to resign. Would you FIRE Mr. Chertoff now?

[Alamom]

9. Are we feeling safe yet? n/t

[Justyce]

11. You can bet he didn't

decide to do this on his own but was told to do it after over 2/3 of the country demanded it. I bet he had to be sedated. lol

[OneBlueSky]

13. he's lying . . . as usual . . . Rove just thinks it will play . . . n/t

.

[smartvoter]

14. Note there is no apology. Will we see one Thursday? nt

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. 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; a 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.

[DemocracyInaction]

16. See the smoke...see the mirrors

I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY-----NOW, I WANT TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF ALL THIS AND FIND OUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR IT!! That basically is the message. He's not saying that his magnficient leadership was responsible. He's saying "I'm lookin' for someone to pin it on---paging another George Tenent".

[KyndCulture]

18. et tu Modem??? say it ain't so...

has a veil of unearthly demonic possession taken over DU in the last hour? Jebus I only took a short nap, I've woken up into the twilight zone.

[Modem Butterfly]

22. Oh please

The fact that he said anything at all shows just how cornered and out of options he is, not that he's going to actually do anything.

[Greyhound]

20. Yeah, like the robber who takes responsibility after being convicted. n/t

[KyndCulture]

25. or the death row inmate right before the gas ball drops? nt

[demgrrrll]

28. That is a very good analogy. Very similar to a defendant who pleads

for the mercy of the court after a conviction hoping for a lighter sentence.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. Check out the weather report.

[buff2]

24. Well THIS ought to bring his approval rating up to the mid 80's

The media whores will see to that.

[Tim4319]

27. FLLLIP FLLLLOP...... FLLLLIP FLLLLOP..... FLLLLIP FLLLLOP!

Sounds familiar?????

[thefloyd]

30. I think

bUSH IS POINTING FINGERS

[Mutley]

31. It doesn't mean anything.

My initial reaction was "What?!? :wtf: :wow: " but it's just a ploy to try and fix up his tattered rep.