Nemesis Juggernaut writes:
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So you need no evidence of misconduct on the Bush Administration in order to believe they had a hand in the scandal? Noted. And this coming from Lord Empiricism himself. That's delectable.
Incorrect. We have plenty of evidence. Every single department, every single agency has been filled with political cronies who lie to the press. From the prescription drug plan to education to disaster management to the science departments to the health departments, every single agency has been compromised.
Is not empirical observation that if you observe somebody behaving the same way every time, then it's pretty much expected to behave the same way under similar conditions? Are you seriously claiming that it's just a coincidence that they all screw up in exactly the same way?
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1: For hiring an inexperienced person to run a very serious institution, and 2: For not firing him after the Katrina debacle.
You act like this is an isolated incident, as if the only department that has had trouble is FEMA.
Again, let's not be disingenuous and try to claim that because there is no videotape of Bush calling up Vice Adm. Johnson, then the Bush administration has no connection to this.
Would it really have been so difficult for the #2 man at FEMA to give a press
release rather than a fake press
conference? The "conference" was thrown together so fast that there was no way for press to be there. The actual press was given a phone number to call where they could listen but ask no questions. Well, that's why they good lord created Adobe Acrobat so you could create a document and email it to all the press outlets detailing the various things you want to say.
What on earth possessed them to think that holding a fake press conference was a good idea? Didn't they learn their lesson from all the other fake news stories they've been caught doing? Didn't the Bush administration claim that they were shocked (
SHOCKED, I tell you!) that this had happened and that they would never, ever do it again? How on earth did the #2 man at FEMA come to think that this would be a good idea?
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But alleging misconduct without any kind of substantiated reason to do so is only wishful thinking. It doesn't make it so.
By your logic, Bush either has the worst luck in the world in that every single person he has appointed to every single position has been an incompetent hack or he's a complete moron and is incapable of noticing that they're incompetent hacks. Anything to hold onto your faith that Bush has done no wrong and had absolutely nothing to do with all of his appointees doing the same thing wrong in every single department.
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How can any thinking person blame all the abject misery in the world on one man's shoulders?
Because he's the one who puts those people into their positions.
Because Harry S. Truman used to have a sign sitting on the desk in the Oval Office: The buck stops here.
Because Bush said that he was going to run the government like a business and in business, when the CEO hires incompetent hacks, it means the CEO is to blame.
Rrhain
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