Hell has frozen over: "I take responsibility."

[TechBear_Seattle]

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.

Full story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/katrina_washington

[AspenRose]

1. Satan's wearing a parka, all right

eom

[PretzelWarrior]

2. progress. now step 2. Resign.

follow the lead of the other dumbf*ck, Brown.

[indepat]

3. One mistake in 56+ months ain't bad

[category5]

32. LMAO

;-) ;-) ;-)

[hardrainfallin]

4. talk is cheap

i'll believe it when i see it

Take responsibility: take your ass on outta here and don't forget to close the shithouse door on your way out!

[judy]

8. Don't believe it...

You won't see it.

[asjr]

5. I have not heard him say "I'm sorry." Those two words

have never been in his vocabulary.

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. Isn't it enough that demons have replaced their pitchforks for ice skates?

You want Bush to actually say, "I'm sorry"? My friend, something like that would likely cause the universe to implode.

[quiet.american]

21. Thank you!

Sincere responsibility would involve those words or some semblance. Not trying to make himself look like a big man by pretending it was all someone else's fault, but he'll "take responsibility."

As far as I'm concerned, his taking of responsibility is meaningless.

[phantom power]

6. Just more talk without any real action. Dog bites man.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. Check his hands

The prick had his fingers crossed when he said it - you just know it, don't you?

[Richardo]

9. Meaningless, if there are no consequences.

That's the most facile phrase in America today, now that e-banking has made mailing checks a rarity.

Anyone can say that, as if that's enough:
"I take responsibility."
"Fine, you're fired."
"Why am I fired? I said I'll take the responsibility. That only means you can blame me." :eyes: :grr:

[emulatorloo]

10. Fake President takes Fake Responsibility-- totally parsed

basically "if anything was wrong I am responsible." Now his syncophants will be sent out to prove nothing was wrong.

[Totally Committed]

12. This story is being rated down badly...

The Freepers are trying to bury it. You may want to go back (if you haven't already) and rate it 5 stars. We can't allow this story to be taken off the Yahoo front page.

TC

[TechBear_Seattle]

13. You should also email it

Use the button at the bottom of the article to email the story to a friend. That will help keep it in the "Most Popular" section.

[Totally Committed]

24. I did... to about a dozen! n/t

TC

[sundancekid]

16. done ... rated up...it also helps a lot to e-mail the story to many others

[LibertyLou]

14. Just like Janet Reno and scores of dead women and children..

Oh yeah, it was so 'strong' to 'take full responsibility'...

Take that, Creepers...

[AirmensMom]

15. Hell is still hot ...

The key: "To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right ...". They'll find some way to prove the federal government did a heckuva job.

[Gato Moteado]

17. hey how can he be responsible? he was on vacation!

he had nothing to do with the government's response...he was busy being on vacation. then after the hurricane passed through NO he had to go to california to hold a guitar that was presented to him by some never-before-heard-of country singer. don't you people understand that some things are more important than human life????

same goes for 911. how was he supposed to know about threats to the country? he was on vacation. then he was hanging with some second graders when the planes hit. somebody else should have been in charge at that point. don't blame him. point the fingers somewhere else....a guy's gotta have a few month-long vacations every now and then.

listen folks....cut chimpy some slack for chrissakes. when you're on one of your 3 or 4 month long vacations per year, do you want to have to deal with crap going on at your office? hell no. there's fish to be caught. rounds of golf to be played.

so you can play the blame game all you want but the fact is that chimpy was on a well earned vacation and how the hell would you like it if your boss called you while you were vacationing?????

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Trust me bush ain't no Truman

and this was in bureocratize, lets see how much shit we can force down range

[bluedog]

19. responsibility :taker the stand.swear under OATH

that you were well informed of this storm.

why help wasn't sent out earlier.and why in hell did you(*) still go on your trips to push medicare....and eat cake.
stay at a Fancy hotal.play golf....

on day and then the next.talk to the Navy in Cali. and pretend to strum the guitar.....
Then and only then will anyone really believe you....and while you are on the stand.under oath..tell us about the WMDS you said were in Iraq.......

[Generator]

20. Darn you!

Of course you beat me to it with hell freezing over. I NEVER thought this would happen.

What is going on behind the scenes? Is Daddy or the President aka Cheney forcing him to say this? Is it just to get the heat off? What's the real deal? This is the only moment-whew-it was fast-of any accountablity for anything since December 2000. Don't worry Du'ers-this too will pass. Well since he admits a failure-I guess we can all forgive him now right?

Just put the drinks and food down and keep your screen clean.

[Rob H.]

22. It's a half-assed acceptance of responsibility, if that

Notice how he qualified it: To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right.... Sorry, but that doesn't sound like he's accepting responsibility to me and I wonder how hard his handlers had to push to get even that. (Remember that this is the same man, when asked if he'd made any mistakes during his first term, couldn't think of even one.)

I like this part:

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government," Bush said.

Funny, seems to me like it "exposed serious problems in our response capability" mostly at the topmost level of government.

[snowbear]

23. He's trying to grasp at a life preserver...

as his ship sinks..

[dajoki]

25. i don't trust him...

for a second. they're up to something.

[Totally Committed]

26. Does it bother anyone else that he didn't apologize?

Or that there was no attempt at holding himself accountable?

People are dead. A city is gone. And all he can do is claim responsibility, and then, only in a limited way.

I know some people are shocked at this, but I really think it way too little and way too late for this response. He needed to do or say something more to even begin the healing.

TC

[lynne]

27. Read it again . . . Very Carefully -

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government. To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said.

Key words/phrases are "CAPABILITY", "ALL LEVELS" and "EXTENT".

The language is carefully crafted. Yes, Bush has indicated that he is willing to accept responsibility for Federal failings, but he did not say that the federal government has failed. While there is much talk about who is to blame for what, the "extent" that the federal government didn't "fully do its job right" has yet to be determined.

"Capable" infers having the capacity or ability. "All Levels" includes state and local governments.

Seems to me that some are reading far more into this than there truly is.

[xkenx]

28. The "Duck" Principle, Again

Ducks don't wear signs to let people know they are ducks. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc., then you know it's a duck. Well, George Bush walks like an arrogant spoiled rich kid, talks like a moronic chimp, avoids the light like a cockroach, and has demonstrated the compassion of, well, a Republican. So all this happy horseshit about taking responsibility is nothing more than the Rovian calculation to feed the sheeple. Bush has proved time and time again what he really is, and I think I'd do an injustice to some creature from the animal world by naming him. Just watch him and figure out the appropriate name.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. "Doesn't work for me, I gotta have more cowbell!"

[bring_em_home_bush]

30. "To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right"

The point there being, Sparky, that Dimson has already asked in bewilderment, "What didn't go right?"

This is in no way, shape, or form anything resembling an authentic declaration of personal responsibility.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. That "apology" looked totally phony to me.

I'm sure KKKarl whupped Boy George upside the head and told him if he wanted his poll numbers to stop tanking he'd better pretend to sort of apologize. But he was blinking a lot and stammering, and it was pretty obvious he was hating every minute of it. I don't believe for a minute that his "apology" was sincere.

If this were Japan he would acknowledge he had dishonored his office and his country, and would have resigned by now.