HOLY S---, THE PRES "TAKES RESPONSIBILITY"
"aw shucks, yeah, I messed up"
Bush: 'I take responsibility' for U.S. failures
Wow, for G. Bush, it used to be that being president means never having to say you're sorry or admit mistakes or whatever but looks like Katrina has created such a outpouring of outrage and disappointment that he's finally been forced so say, "ok, yeah, this was my bad" (at least on the federal level). I think Karl Rove has finally been looking at the poll numbers and realizing it was mea culpa time rather than scapegoating and stonewalling any more.
Just like when Clinton apologized, expect...
1) Bush's approval ratings to start to climb back up.
2) Pro-President (mostly on the Right) pundits applaud this show of humility and accountability even though some of them have ardently defended the President from having to take any responsibility in any of this.
3) Bush critics (on the Left) suddenly scrambling to keep the heat on. After insisting for weeks that "the feds messed up," it kind of takes the wind out of your sails to hear Bush say, "yeah, we failed. It was my bad."
I have to say...I'm not even sure what to do with this. The Bush admin has been so adamant about spinning every Iraq disaster as some kind of improvement that it's rather stunning to hear them admit failure for a change.
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