Accountability has been officially renamed:
the blame game. The media has officially adopted it. Even lefties are saying it. Rove must be ecstatic.
But here's the thing, Karl: When thousands of people die unnecessarily, blame demands to be assigned. It's not a game. Reviewing mistakes and assigning blame is due diligence following the unnecessary mass death of fellow Americans.
To refuse to engage in that process is shameful. And to spin that process into nothing more than a "game" dishonors the dead.
Bush, famously a "CEO-style president" and delegator, should understand the need for accountability better than anyone. And he should understand the urgency.
When the very people that appear to have failed miserably are still in a position to fail just as miserably, immediate action is the only thing that will save lives. Does anyone really believe that the next natural disaster or Al Qaeda plot is going to wait for "all-in-good-time?"
I understand loyalty to President and party to a degree. But to those who are staring FEMA's incompetence in the face and still faithfully screaming "No blame game!" (and whispering "but if someone's to blame, it's the locals") I have to ask you: what do you love more, your country or George W. Bush? Thousands of your countrymen are dead. Does that mean anything to you? Or is this event just as spin-worthy as anything else that's happened in the last four years?
You crazy bastards. This is no game, this is life and death.