John Cole found this statement in the Boston Globe: "President Bush said Tuesday that “I take responsibility” for failures in dealing with
September 12, 2005

John Cole found this statement in the Boston Globe:

"President Bush said Tuesday that “I take responsibility” for failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and said the disaster raised broader questions about the government’s ability to respond to natural disasters as well as terror attacks. “Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government,” Bush said at joint White House news conference with the president of Iraq. “To the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility,” Bush said."...read on

C&L was down for a while so I'm just catching up, but this is the first time I can remember that President Bush has ever taken responsibility for anything that has gone wrong so far in his tenure as president. What does it mean to you? Forget the resign theme because that won't happen. Do you think Rove whispered in his ear?

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