Kudo's Bush!

Finally, Bush admits he screwed up.... kinda. I was very pleased with his speech last night (9/15/05) purely because I saw something I never saw from this president before, remorse (however fake you want to think it was).

"Bush -- who earlier this week took responsibility for a disaster response widely seen as sluggish and confused -- said the federal government would henceforth react to large disasters differently.

He conceded "the system, at every level of government, was not well coordinated and was overwhelmed in the first few days." "It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority," he said, "and a broader role for the armed forces -- the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment's notice."
The president called on U.S. cities to have "clear and up-to-date plans for responding to natural disasters, disease outbreaks or terrorist attacks, for evacuating large numbers of people in an emergency and for providing the food, water and security they would need."
"I consider detailed emergency planning to be a national security priority," he said.

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Source: CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/16/bush.main/index.html)

After all the stuff that Bush has done that has proven wrong, this is the first time that he actually admitted to dropping the ball to some degree. He even covered a main point from my previous post. The US should be better prepared for a natural disaster or attack. The only upside about the Hurricane is, it has no agenda and won't continue to bother us like say Al Qaeda ( I know there will be more hurricanes smart ass but thats not the point). I listen to Sean Hannity on the way home every morning, mainly so I get pissed enough to go to the gym, and it is funny how he was knocking people for critizing Bush but then he turns around and points fingers at the Mayor and the Governor. So it's ok to point fingers, just not at people of your own party. Hypocrit. Here's my answer to Captain Conservative. If you are in an operating room and the intern is performing a surgery and something drastic happens, the doctor takes over. If he can't handle it, the chief of surgery takes over. This happens in a matter of minutes. It took us almost two weeks to react to a problem and begin dealing with it. In the current day and age, that is totally unacceptable and hopefully steps can be made to prevent that in the future.

p.s. search "Failure" from google.com and see what the top entry is. Someone has a sense of humor.