Bush Takes Responsibility For Failures Of Response (incl. ideas on rebuilding NO)

Washington Post ^ | September 14, 2005 | Jim VandeHei and Jonathan Weisman

[gondramB]

Has there been even a hint of Nagan or the governor taking any personal responsibility for problems? Character comes out at times like this.

[keithtoo]

Dubya is showing that he is head and shoulders, a better man than his detractors.

Even though perfect honesty would have him pointing out the obvious failures of Dem's in positions of power and the juxtaposition of these loser Dem's with the GOP governor of Mississippi just to start.

[Kimmers]

Libs are never liable

[dufekin]

Great idea for rebuilding New Orleans: sell it to the United Nations for their new headquarters.

[Xenophobic Alien]

No but I'm sure they will step forward and agree that Bush should Take Responsibility For Failures Of Response and that they were at no time at fault.

[peyton randolph]

Nagin has moved to Dallas, Texas, bought a home, and enrolled his kid in school there. He isn't moving back to N.O.

[bobsunshine]

Neither is even mentioned in the article. This article points to the Fed Gov to be in control of rebuilding NO and this has the Dems crazy.

[CharlesWayneCT]

So, the federal government will take over New Orleans and remake it in a new image?

As much as it sounds like fun, I don't know if I like the idea of the federal government being so involved in what should be a state and local effort.

I would be ashamed if the federal government said they had to come in any rebuild MY community. But then again, my community hasn't spend decades living as wards of the state.

[gondramB]

"Neither is even mentioned in the article. This article points to the Fed Gov to be in control of rebuilding NO and this has the Dems crazy."

I love New Orleans... it's irreplaceable- I want to see it rebuilt.

But damned if I want to put to billions of dollars in the hands of either the current state or local officials.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Calling Karl Rove on the courtesy phone.
Calling Halliburton on the courtesy phone.

[Jaded]

He's on nightline. He says he didn't have enough drivers. Not really taking responsibility. No.

[One Sided Media]

Why do they always have to announce what he is going to say? It gives the media and the Demoncrats ammo and plenty of time to get their spin out.

I just wish they would state that the president will address the American people and and let the anticipation increase.

Also, I think he should hold at least quarterly chats with the public (not at a time when people are not home) giving the public (shareholders) a briefing of what he and his administration are doing on various issues. He could have charts (something pro-active)and introduce members of his cabinet for reports to the public and have heads of government agencies speak directly too. They can then have a phone in (or e-mail in) after for the public to ask questions directly. Is this too much to ask? Public Relations -- what is that?

[Fred Nerks]

If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!

[eddie willers]

No but I'm sure they will step forward and agree that Bush should Take Responsibility For Failures Of Response and that they were at no time at fault.

You're absolutely correct.

All they'll say is, "See....I told you it was his fault....not ours."

[IronMan04]

Many people in Mississippi and Louisiana failed to evacuate before the storm and were killed. Looks to me like both jurisdictions failed.

[Bush gal in LA]

What class W has. He still hasn't said a bad word about Blank-o or Nagin. Hope the truth comes out eventually so the world knows where the real blame should go!

[gondramB]

Thanks for the tip - tuning into Nightline.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

Unless we have a police a state that truly enforces evacuations, there will always be people who will stay behind.

I am concerned that what we may end up seeing is something like the post-911 Airport Security overkill... anytime thunder showers are imminent, out will come a govt-imposed exodus.

[isthisnickcool]

The federal gov't has no business using the national treasury (what treasury, we are broke) to rebuild a city in a hole, down by the river......