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Bush Admits Responsibility.

I'll let that sink in for a minute. Not that it's won me over, by a long shot, but it's about fucking time.

Went for a walk at lunch. Found some guy's wallet outside of Boston Market. Handed it to the manager on duty. In retrospect, I could probably have dialed 411 on my cell phone, gotten the guy's number, and left him a message, or called the cops myself.

Still need to rent a wood chipper. Preferably one big enough to digest a 200 pound redneck, albeit unburdened by a conscience or sense of honor. [note: this is not, in fact, a reference to GWB]

Comments

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

He's still an incompetent moron, but at least he's finally admitted he's not perfect.

[argylerockstar.livejournal.com]

I never thought that he would admit to any fault nor that he would take responsibility. I wonder, though, how much of that "accepting responsibility" is only due to rapidly declining approval ratings and a public outcry for more higher-ups to claim responsibility.

The words "face man" come to mind.

[ex-xn667.livejournal.com]

Like I told one of my co-workers, that admission and a few dollars will get you coffee at Starbuck's. Disingenuous ass that he is, I can only see it as political posturing and damage control. Now the same asshats that voted for him can feel all warm and fuzzy about what a big guy he is to own up to the responsibility.

Sorry, bullshit. He's got a national address planned for Thursday? WTF? He was soaking up camera juice immediately after the 9/11 attacks. I guess it's a lot easier for his handlers and spin doctors to make him look good when he's defending the country from homespun terrorists than it is to make him look good for being devastatingly clueless and surrounded by such staggering incompetence that the consequences have assumed historic proportions.

I don't feel even the slightest bit better about his "admission". It's just a smoke screen so he won't have to hold any of his supporters accountable. After all, the buck stops with him, right? Now he can stay surrounded by these boobs and stay shielded from American reality.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

But how do you -really- feel, Frank? ;-)

And, more importantly, did your clan weather the storm OK?

[ex-xn667.livejournal.com]

Sorry bout that, my bitterness is hangin' out ;)

Mom did amazingly well. Coelo came away with minimal damage on the home front. And out of the the NOLA contingent, the ones I'm keeping the closest eye on seem to be recovering, but even so, there's no joy in Mudville :/

Wrapped up in the NOLA area as I am, I've utterly failed to ask if you guys took any damage when the storm blew your way? Hopefully none or at least no more than friends and beer couldn't sort out in a weekend.

Regardless, this whole mess has rather re-oriented me mostly away from bitterness now to smarmy sentimentalism. I might stay tucked under my rock, but you and K are most definitely in my thoughts. Dunno that I'll ever be able to watch another storm warning with quite the same bland "oh, they'll be all right" approach. We've all seen where that leads :/

[argylerockstar.livejournal.com]

He's got a national address planned for Thursday? WTF? He was soaking up camera juice immediately after the 9/11 attacks. I guess it's a lot easier for his handlers and spin doctors to make him look good when he's defending the country from homespun terrorists than it is to make him look good for being devastatingly clueless and surrounded by such staggering incompetence that the consequences have assumed historic proportions.

My sentiments exactly. Well said.

[ex-xn667.livejournal.com]

Now if only our face man didn't make me pity innocent chimps for the unfortunate resemblance :/ Methinks we agree too well.

[argylerockstar.livejournal.com]

LOL! I have the Bush/chimp face match shots prominently displayed in my office.

[dogsbody01.livejournal.com]

Can Somebody sue Dubya, on the Chimps behalf?

[dogsbody01.livejournal.com]

Still need to rent a wood chipper. Preferably one big enough to digest a 200 pound redneck, albeit unburdened by a conscience or sense of honor. [note: this is not, in fact, a reference to GWB]I won't ask why.As for Dubya's half-ass, "Opps Hurricane, destroying much of the deep South; and FEMA sat on it's hands.My bad!"doesn't freakin' cut it!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

see previous entry re: insane chainsaw wielding redneck

[dogsbody01.livejournal.com]

I will!

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Wow. What a bunch of spin. I smell fear, not contrition. He finally seems to understand that the shit he pulls may influence the elections the next time around. I mean really. Compare it to his statement of "Brownie, yer doin' a heck of a job". How clueless can one person be? Does he honestly think everyone is going to believe this flip flop of his? And he had that audacity to say Kerry was a waffler.

[geekwuffie.livejournal.com]

I agree... this is damage control, not actual acceptance of accountability.

Jon Stewart compared Bush's current situation to Clinton's MonicaGate - a situation wherein many Democrats had to either condemn Clinton's poor judgement for his sexual activities (which, IMO, really aren't anyone's business other than his and Hilary's) or risk losing their own credibility; now, Stewart feels, many Repugnicans have a similar choice. (Stewart goes on to say that the only real difference is that tens of thousands of innocent people weren't stranded in Monica Lewinsky's vagina.)

"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said some military aircraft and other equipment may be able to move out of the Gulf Coast soon. 'We've got to the point where most if not all of the search and rescue is completed,' said Rumsfeld."

Does this mean we're going to have Shrub on the deck of a Coast Guard rescue boat, floating down Bourbon Street, under a 'Mission Accomplished' banner?

As for the accusations of Kerry being a waffler... even taking into account that some of the quotes here (http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001279.php) are taken out of context, this Daily Show clip transcends humor and exposes Bush plainly for doing exactly what he said he wouldn't do before he was elected...