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Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders
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Posted on 09/13/2005 9:28:06 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago

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.

The president was asked whether people should be worried about the government's ability to handle another terrorist attack given failures in responding to Katrina.

"Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack? That's a very important question and it's in the national interest that we find out what went on so we can better respond," Bush replied.

He said he wanted to know both what went wrong and what went right.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blamegame; bush43; fema; katrina
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1 posted on 09/13/2005 9:28:06 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

This is old news. Debate is well underway on an earlier thread. Okay, five minutes earlier.


2 posted on 09/13/2005 9:29:47 AM PDT by RightWhale (We in heep dip trubble)
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To: Sub-Driver

"To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said.
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Words NEVER to be heard from the mouth of a LIBERAL.


3 posted on 09/13/2005 9:30:09 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Sub-Driver
....meanwhile in Dallas and Shreveport, Nagin and Blanco just took a big sigh of relief, because now they can blame EVERYTHING on Bush!

A Huge Stupid Phucking Move!

4 posted on 09/13/2005 9:30:32 AM PDT by Bommer
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To: EagleUSA

Truman was a Liberal by the standards of his day, but he would be considered fairly Conservative now.


5 posted on 09/13/2005 9:31:56 AM PDT by RightWhale (We in heep dip trubble)
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To: Sub-Driver

I believe President Bush just blew the Dems/Liberals out of the water with this comment! What a guy....Now who will they blame?? He stopped them in their tracks!! Now, on to their next victim.


6 posted on 09/13/2005 9:34:01 AM PDT by maeng
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To: Bommer

Quit the Hysterics.

What did you WANT him to say? "I take NO responsibility." That would be a real bludgeon against him.

Now, with a reasonable vow to take responsibility to FIX FEDERAL DEFICIENCIES, the ball is in the other folks' courts, big time.


7 posted on 09/13/2005 9:35:29 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Bommer
A Huge Stupid Phucking Move!

No so! Unless one is a huge moron you know that the LA governor and NO mayor totally screwed up. You also know that neither has the integrity to admit it. Bush shows great integrity and honesty and his "the buck stops here" approach will bring him respect. If he were to cower like the Liberals he would be no better than them.

8 posted on 09/13/2005 9:37:06 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Frank_Discussion

Right! And I just checked CNN and they have already taken the "breaking news" off. This just undermined them all. They did not expect this.


9 posted on 09/13/2005 9:37:06 AM PDT by maeng
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To: Bommer

Hey, watch Your language! The Father Above is Listening to everything we say.


10 posted on 09/13/2005 9:37:06 AM PDT by ExcursionGuy84 ("To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush)
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To: Frank_Discussion
Now, with a reasonable vow to take responsibility to FIX FEDERAL DEFICIENCIES, the ball is in the other folks' courts, big time.

Yeah. Now the media is going to have to investigate the details behind "to the extent ..."

Once they see the extent to which the state of LA blew it, I expect they'll hound Bush on a different subject. They will not report the extent of state shortcoming.

11 posted on 09/13/2005 9:38:49 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: EagleUSA
What he meant to say was, To the extent we didn't recognize in time that the Louisiana Governor and Senator as well as the Mayor of New Orleans are all total morons we are responsible.
12 posted on 09/13/2005 9:39:36 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: Sub-Driver

This will suck the wind out of the liberals' sails.


13 posted on 09/13/2005 9:39:52 AM PDT by shekkian
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To: Sub-Driver

I voted for Dubya twice and still like him, but I am sick of his rolling over all the time and refusing to fight back...even a little bit. I think it is a failing of the entire Bush family. I used to think history would judge him well, but now I expect the verdict will be just about the same as that of his father. Too bad IMO.


14 posted on 09/13/2005 9:40:53 AM PDT by Cautor
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To: Sub-Driver
I agree that this is a good move on the part of the President. He's showing what he's made of. He is beginning to fully understand who was to blame, but is above the pettiness of it all.

However, we'll soon see, yet again, calls for impeachment over this. Liberals fail to see that you can't impeach a President just because you disagree with him. They failed to understand WHY Clinton was impeached. They still think it was was about "sex".

I, for one, respect our President for standing up to the liberal whiners. And THAT'S what he IS doing!

15 posted on 09/13/2005 9:41:53 AM PDT by Jackson57
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To: JIM O

To the extent we didn't recognize in time that the Louisiana Governor and Senator as well as the Mayor of New Orleans are all total morons we are responsible.
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Actually, it was quite clear in his statement.


16 posted on 09/13/2005 9:43:24 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Cboldt

The MSM was already working that angle, that won't change one iota from this statement. Congress is going to confront this event, Nagin and Blanco will pay dearly for their idiocy. Patience, buddy.


17 posted on 09/13/2005 9:44:14 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Cautor

..but I am sick of his rolling over all the time and refusing to fight back...even a little bit. I think it is a failing of the entire Bush family. I used to think history would judge him well, but now I expect the verdict will be just about the same as that of his father. Too bad IMO.
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I agree. It is a tragic failing. Tragic for the real America that wants to keep living -- and not become a socialist, Euro-style state...


18 posted on 09/13/2005 9:45:00 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: RightWhale

John F. Kennedy, also.


19 posted on 09/13/2005 9:46:28 AM PDT by bethtopaz (We will not allow another generation of heroes to be forsaken. -- NewLand, from Free Republic)
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To: RightWhale

Where is the earlier thread? I couldn't find it.


20 posted on 09/13/2005 9:46:42 AM PDT by Old Seadog (Birthdays start out being fun. But too many of them will kill you..)
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