Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders

[brettdale]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4076

Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders


By Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press

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.

"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.

The president was asked whether people should be worried about the government's ability to handle another terrorist attack given failures in responding to Katrina.

"Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack? That's a very important question and it's in the national interest that we find out what went on so we can better respond," Bush replied.

He said he wanted to know both what went wrong and what went right.

As for blunders in the federal response, "I'm not going to defend the process going in," Bush said. "I am going to defend the people saving lives."

He praised relief workers at all levels. "I want people in America to understand how hard people worked to save lives down there," he said.

Bush spoke after R. David Paulison, the new acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, pledged to intensify efforts to find more permanent housing for the tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors now in shelters

[tjdee]

1. You'[re supposed to say YES, we are capable of dealing...just...ugh.

He is such a loser on so many levels.

First, he's basically saying "If we did do anything wrong, I take responsibility ."

Second, his answer to the terror attack is just crack talk.

Why can't he speak English or answer questions without sounding like he's stupid or cruel, or both?

[applegrove]

2. They worked hard. You did not Bush. You worked hard at diminishing

important institutions to please your corporate donors & christian voters. You have worked very hard at doing that.

[damntexdem]

3. He thinks about it every day.

And that's hard -- just thinking, that is.

[Zenlitened]

4. Oh. did the focus groups say it was okay for him to say that?

How nice. Shamed into taking responsibility when it became clear there was no alternative.

What a leader. :dunce:

[Zenlitened]

6. Wait, check that. Bush changed his tune because ...

... a Congressional office report was about to change it for him:

Report Confirms that Louisiana Took Necessary and Timely Steps

Pursuant to a September 7 request by Representative John Conyers to review the law and legal accountability relating to Federal action in response to Hurricane Katrina, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report today about whether the Governor of Louisiana took the necessary and timely steps needed to secure disaster relief from the federal government. The report unequivocally concludes that she did.

http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/003513.html

Hats off to the other DUers who first brought this to our attention.

:)

[leftofthedial]

5. Okay, then resign and turn yourself into the authorities

to face charges of negligent homicide