And in other news, fox condemns carrion crow rampage and vows to get to the bones of shocking and unforseeable henhouse massacre. Coyote to investigate Road Runner-Anvil tragedy. OJ closing in on wife’s killer.
Bush will give up this investigation of his. He ran it up the flagpole and it was saluted with four fingers less than he wanted.
What are the odds he asks Colin Powell to head it?
What are the odds CP tells him to shove it?
I only wish that other people in charge weren’t pointing at the president and saying “Damn right! The buck stops there!” There are a whole lot of people in charge that weren’t appointed by the president that fucked up too. The buck has to stop there as well.
I’m not trying to cover the presidents ass here. I just want full and total accountability for this disaster and laying it all on Bush is not the way to get it.
I like that one. I’ll have to file it away.
(jams index card into ear)
Thanks, Bob!
-Joe
I wonder if he’s yet assembled the committee to investigate the inevitable gross incompetence of the investigation.
My position is pretty simple: I have every article of faith that accountability WILL be laid on the state and city actors that failed. If anything, a good chunk of my federal tax dollars, which pay the sallaries of people like Rove, Bartlett, and others, will over the next few weeks be devoted to making sure they face the blame both for things they do deserve and probably also for things they only share the blame for.
I have very little faith that anyone who’s failure could harm Bush will take the rap. They may sacrifice Brown, but that’s about it. And certainly the President himself will never have cause to do any soul-searching himself. Should he have happily overseen the Republican pork looting of the budget, or should he have made sure all the phony “homeland security” pork was instead used for really important national security needs? Should he really have put nepotism over experience in his appointments?
Plan:
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Appoint committee to investigate mess.
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Stall investigation as long as possible.
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Deflect any criticism by saying, “We should wait until the committee issues its report.”
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Stall. Cause delays and promote partisan bickering to undermine committee.
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Add a pinch or two of internal controvery and sniping on the committee itself.
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Continue to say that debate should occur only after we “have all the information. After the committee issues its report…”
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A year later, the committee issues its report…hopefully when something else has grabbed the headlines.
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Say it is “Time to learn the lessons and put this all behind us.” Now that the committee has issued its report, that’s the end of it. Change the subject.
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Accuse anyone still complaining of using the tragedy for political purposes.
Hmmm… that should work.
Lovely. And then FEMA will be left in the not-exactly-capable hands of its Chief of Staff, Patrick Rhode (former Bush campaign event planner) and its Deputy Chief of Staff, Scott Morris (former Bush campaign media strategist). And anyone who asks why the buck stops with Brown and not the nepotistic assholes who filled the top three spots at FEMA with loyal idiots with no emergency management experience will be labelled “shrill”, and accused of ignoring the problems at the state and local level.
This reminded me of the sexual harassment allegations that arose about Shwarzenegger. He proposed that he investigate whether or not he actually harrassed these women or not. Arnold was clever enough that after a while he figured out that this really wouldn’t fly.
(Actually, it also reminds me of a certain recent pit thread about a certain posters GD skills, but I won’t mention any names.)
Someone’s already leaked the Administration’s Strategic Plan for Dealing With the Fuckup of th Day? Man, they’re slipping.