Bush takes responsibility?

Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders (AP)

I almost spit my drink at this one. I never ever thought I would see this headline.

And although this is news, there's a far more troubling buried lede in this story/mea culpa.

The president was asked whether people should be worried about the government's ability to handle another terrorist attack given failures in responding to Katrina.

"Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack? That's a very important question and it's in the national interest that we find out what went on so we can better respond," Bush replied.

4 years after 9-11, after a year and a half of campaigning on being the "security candidate," after 1896 American Soldiers dead in Iraq, 20,000 wounded, after running the largest deficits in history and adding roughly a trillion dollars to our national debt and all that we've been through,

This son of a bitch refuses to answer the question "Are we capable of dealing with a terror attack?"


*****Also, please notice that Bush made this claim of "responsibility" on the day that the Roberts hearings were being covered wall to wall by the news networks guaranteeing far less coverage than would have taken place just a day before or two afterward.

(the second story was pointed out by America Blog in this post.)