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Thursday, September 08, 2005

Where the buck REALLY stops...

when we had presidents that had any integrity or moral character or decency or humanity or anything resembling compassion, they accepted responsibility for what happened on their watch... the sign on harry truman's desk, "the buck stops here" being a prime example... john at americablog reminds us of that important fact as we watch the incredible and disgusting display of scapegoating - brown, chertoff, blanco, nagin - ANYBODY but the one who has the ultimate responsibility and accountability for the miserable, half-assed, criminal botching of disaster response in the first days after katrina - our president, george w. bush...
The reason we have incompetents like Brown in the administration, the reason thousands of people died last week in New Orleans, the reason we just lost an entire American city, and the reason for so many other lies and deaths piled at the door of this White House is that we have an imbecile as president. And after five years, you can only hide a powerful idiot's mistakes so long before they compound and reach critical mass.

personally, i do not believe bush is an idiot... i believe he was acting on the advice of rove, appointing those who had been faithful, mindlessly faithful, to the party and had proved their undying loyalty to george bush... forget any professional credentials or experience... those were the only credentials that mattered...

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