http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050911/NEWS05/509110304

Power crews diverted
Restoring pipeline came first

(This included delaying power restoration to a
local hospital for an extra day after the White House made a call...)

So the White House can't make a call to deliver water and food to people stranded in New Orleans, but can make a call to benefit political pals in the South. Sounds like business as usual to me!

aka Karl Rove?

*weep*

Write your representatives today demanding a real and independent investigation.

MKK

Bush To Investigate Self: Will Ask "Where was I?" and "What was I doing?"

and

Bush Says Umbrella Working "Just Fine" (Picture included).

So the next pushback is that the federal government partly did its job right, but mistakes were made, things do happen. The whitewash smell is palpable.

To the extent that George W. Bush didn't sit in a rowboat and blow Hurricane Katrina out of the Gulf, he is responsible, but we can't blame him for not doing the impossible, right? He's just one man, after all.

How could he have anticipated the breach of the levees? How could anyone? If his FEMA chief couldn't find out about the convention center, how could he? Isn't that too much to expect?

As our hostess said earlier, "I’m getting tired of hearing from Dubya about disasters nobody could have foreseen, when his own people did the foreseeing and he overruled or ignored them." He won't get tired of saying it, though. He's found his loophole.

He will never admit anything close to the fact that blood is on his hands.

I am Vassily R. Potemkin, Minister of Information for the late Voivode of the Week G. G. Limpopo of the Former Soviet Republic of Partsfabriky 128.

As part of his job, our Beloved Dead Leader accumulated 5,000,000 (Five Gazillion) International Blame Transfers, valid in all countries under IOC Blame Game Rules. Having been declared Officially Dead by his own hand, our Leader has no more use for these instruments. Therefore we of the Ministry are looking for a way of shifting our blame onto the international market. We found your name and sinecure on the Internet, and are approaching you with an offer to exchange these transfers for an outsourcing contract of some kind. No actual outsourcing will be required, just the bucks, and assuming you are the person we seek, those will not be yours anyway.

Yours in Strauss,
V. R. Potemkin

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002331.html

That is part of what makes him responsible. There are orders he could have made to get people with help in and out faster.

This bit
"To the extent that George W. Bush didn't sit in a rowboat and blow Hurricane Katrina out of the Gulf, he is responsible, but we can't blame him for not doing the impossible, right? He's just one man, after all.

"How could he have anticipated the breach of the levees? How could anyone? If his FEMA chief couldn't find out about the convention center, how could he? Isn't that too much to expect?"

was meant to be in character: whiny-sounding, fantasy-based, and partisan.

I and I alone take ultimate responsibility for the error.