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19 October 2005

Back to our regularly scheduled avoidance of responsibility

From Reuters:
"As he has in the past, Bush said if a congressional investigation finds the federal government was at fault in the initial response to Katrina, he would accept responsibility. "I do my job as best I can. One of the things that we do is we respond to crisis. And as I told the people, if I didn't respond well enough, we're going to learn the lessons," he said. "
So now it's an "if."

Sweet merciful Christ.
The first moment of accountability the man has in five years, and he's already weaseling his way out of it. "If I didn't respond well enough?" After all we've seen, the arrogance of that qualifier is positively staggering. As if there's some bizarro-world where vacationing, political maneuvering, and equally political photo-ops constitute an adequate response to devastation complicated by one's own lethally ignorant commitment to cronyism. Of course, what else could we expect from a man who couldn't identify a single mistake he'd made in four years in office save for a handful of conveniently anonymous appointments?
Far from being the everyman he paints--and, perhaps, even believes--himself to be, George Bush is a child of privilege whose wealth and connections have allowed him to avoid consequence throughout his life, from drunk driving arrests to military service to failed business ventures. Having never known responsibility, he's gone on to make sure he (and his friends) never will. Bush has managed to shield himeself and everyone surrounding him, by approaching every decision he makes with a 12 step-inspired moral clarity that renders him incapable of seeing, let alone admitting, error in any of his choices. Ultimately, neither he, nor anyone else, is accountable for anything they do, because disciplining them would be tantamount to acknowledging a personal mistake:
The rationale for the war in Iraq had to evolve beyond weapons of mass destruction, because their absence reveals a monumental intelligence screw-up, if not a blatant fraud perpetrated on the American people. Mike Brown-eye had to do "a heckuva job," because incompetance would show his appointment to be foolish. The threshhold for disciplining those involved in leaking Valerie Plame's identity had to be raised, because firing them would mean he trusts and covers for borderline treasonous political hatchetmen.
Hurricanes have nothing on the danger posed by this man's self-righteous ego. There's no way "we're going to learn the lessons" until Dear Leader learns a few of his own

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