Dubya Utters, "I am 'a'mis-ah-ronsible . . ."

And with this forced, choked, mumbled non-apology, America is supposed to let forth a massive sigh of relief. We're supposed to let go of the seething anger and disgust at the pathetic attempt at leadership shown by our national and state elected and appointed morons. We're supposed to see how human Dubya really is, what a great and grand and gracious leader he really is, how big a man he is to so directly admit his fault in front of a waiting nation.

What an absolutel load of shit. Absolutely bullshit, in its most pure, most potent, and most deadly form.

When did Dubya say the words "apology/apologize," "mistake," "fail/failure," "misstep," "wrong," "late," "slow," "unorganized," "unprepared," "unresponsive," anything that would actually put true responsiblity in his mouth? He didn't. He mumbled some kind of feigned bullshit about how "I'm responsible," and that was that. And Ignorant America seems to think it's all better now. We've pressured him, he's admitted his mistake(s), and now we can all move forward in mutual unconditional love.

Wrong. He admitted nothing. All he did was state the nature of his office and his duties, that HE IS RESPONSIBLE. Yeah, fucking duh. He's the President of the United States, of course he's responsible. That's his goddamn job, every freeking day of the week, even during the seven dozen days of vacations he takes every year. So Bush has fed us a line, which in reality simply is his mission statement. He's told us what his job is, that's all. He hasn't apologized to the homeless and the families of the dead for letting them get that way under his administration, or finding themselves that way in the past two weeks due to his inaction and lack of common foresight. He didn't enumerate one single concrete, distinct, tangible failing for which he was taking responsiblity. He didn't describe one single episode or decision he made in all of this Katrinastrophe that was late or wrong or ill-informed. He said abolutely nothing at all about any of this, absolutely nothing. And yet Ignorant America thinks we've had some kind of cathartic breakthrough. Not so, not in the least. Brilliant move, Mr. Rove, so sublimely simple . . .

So the lame duck sez he's responsible. Yeah, and? What's going to change? What's going to happen as a result of this? The FEMA director has already been canned a full ten days after it became clear to anyone watching the news that it should have been done. Minister of Homeland Security Chertoff seems to have escaped any blame in this. Did Dubya apologize for appointing Brown as the FEMA director? Did he apologize for that, take responsibility for nominating and then seeking approval for an underqualified political appointee to this expert position? Nope, he sure as hell didn't take any responsibility for that. That would have been one of the more concrete and noble things he could have done, taken responsibility for a bad personnel decision. But nope, he didn't do that.

And Ignorant America seems to think that something important has happened here.