Taking responsibility equates to taking “full responsibility”
Or so you’d think if you read this Reuters article (emphasis added):
Disgusted
I have perused some lefty blogs and read some message boards today that have left me flat out disgusted. You remember the CNN story "Firms With White House Ties Get Katrina Contracts" right? Well, the complaints I’ve been reading the past couple of days by some of the left in response to that have been something like this: "why were there no bids for this work?" and/or "this is just another example of W paying back his big campaign backers/supporters!"
Blanco Passes Buck Back to Nagin
On Monday, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien conducted an interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (I blogged about that here). In the interview, Nagin seemed to have calmed down a bit from his "blame Bush for the slow response" rhetoric from a few days prior and moved to passing the buck onto someone else: La. Governor Blanco: