[John Jorsett]

I actually think that the "I take responsibility" speech and attitude will be thought of as one of the President's finest hours. To be fair, many on the left have never had, in their entire lives, the chance to watch an adult take responsibility for ANYTHING!

I don't have to even go look. I can assure you that the lefties are saying that the President was only following Darth Rove's orders, and that he didn't really mean it. But, as you point out, it may have pendtrated the skulls of some of them. Even the uber-hardcore Donna Brazile seems to have changed her attitude. At least, momentarily.

[RedStateRocker]

Well, there is no way he could have been *happy* having to take such a stand.

Imagine the conundrum: allow thousands of lives and billions of dollars to be wasted due to the idiocy of Nagin and Blanco, or respect the Constitution; not a choice I'd want to have to make:-(

[LachlanMinnesota]

My take is that a bunch of Freepers have infiltrated the media and are making this all up so that they look bad...they can't seriously be as brain dead as they appear. There has to be something else going on, and the idea of stealth Freepers is all I can come up with.