Posted on 09/13/2005 10:42:25 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Bush: 'I take responsibility'
Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:10 PM ET168
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush took responsibility on Tuesday for failures in the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
"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."
Good move. Classy. Of course, the media will try to twist this into an admission that he was responsible for EVERYTHING that went wrong.
Can't get any clearer than that.
Bush loos pretty confident that any investigation is going to fry Blanco and Nagin, so he only looks better taking resposibility for the federal mishaps.
Yup. Hold on tight, I can already feel the centrifugical SPIN of this pooling all the blood down to my feet.
Bush is also taking responsibility over this ordeal to give the federal government more authority in the event of a terrorist attack. As mcuh as that concerns me, after seeing this Katrina business unfold, it wouldn't be such a bad idea to keep lower level government out of the situation if they are unable or unwilling (whatever the case may be) to perform their job.
He's a leader.
I just conducted a poll on myself to determine how this news affects the President's numbers.
I'm sad to report his numbers just plummeted 15 points.
Clever.
The Dems on the other hand are too clever by half.
This is what a real leader says.
It is a wise move, because the Federal was the only level of government that DID respond at all.
No State response; no Parish response; no City response.
Yes, GWB can take responsibility for giving them the ONLY help they got.
And we can thank God that the shortcomings of FEMA have been pointed out. Now they can be fixed.
Upward and onward.
And he'll get cut the same slack as Reno got when she took res for Waco?
Looks like "The buck stops here." placard is back on the desk in the oval office...Bush must have pulled it out of a drawer because it went missing during the entire "Clintoon" Presidency.
Of course he is classy ...and smart.
The investigations will show that the feds did nothing wrong or out of character considering action during previous natural disasters and that the real losers are those who vote in Dems time and time again!
“You f*cked up. You trusted us!”
What a class act.
Unfortunately, there are few rewards for being a class act. I only hope that Americans will take the gesture as it was intended when the left starts screaming about what else are you taking responsibility for. They ignored the importance of his press conference with the Iraqi Leader.
I take Manhattan.
That's the strategy--all-out attack blaming everything on Bush. They have to do it that way to prevent blame from being placed where it belongs, at the feet of Blanco and Nagin.
I agree that it is the best thing he could do.
Clinton couldn't even take responsibility for his own health issues caused by years of poor eating. He blamed it on the cooks in Air Force One and the White House--and of course his mother and grandmother are to blame for his horrid treatment of women.
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