It’s not for lack of looking, either. That’s part of why they hate covering disasters in Texas - hard to find material to spin to fit their agenda.
I think one reason why Texans will take responsibility like that is that we know that everyone makes stupid mistakes; many of the first Texas settlers and the Texians who defeated Santa Ana were people who’d made stupid mistakes and failed elsewhere. Since we know that everyone makes mistakes, there’s no harm in admitting that you were an idiot if you learn the lesson and move on.
YES... I love it when people just say, “hey, it was an error, I made it, so I was stupid, next question...”
Don’t you just love ol’Ray Wilkinson’s ““I didn’t say I had all my marbles, OK?””
I would love to hear the language he would use to say that in the local pub. I can imagine a few versions, and just the imagining makes me laugh like crazy!