Bush to investigate what went wrong; sending Cheney in
At last we might have a chance of finding out once and for all what went wrong with the governmental response to the disaster in New Orleans. President Bush is personally to investigate. Critics may see here a major conflict of interest, and cynically claim that the President is unlikely to find any fault with his own performance.I beg to differ. Interviewers often ask job candidates to list their three main weaknesses for the job, the idea being that no-one is as well placed to know the candidate's faults as the candidate themselves, and also because it gives a good idea of whether the candidate is aware of their limitations and have a strategy to deal with them.
Thus hopefully President Bush will conclude that he is incompetent, has hired incompetents, didn't really care about the fate of the inhabitants left in New Orleans and will resign. Or perhaps more likely he will note that "sometimes I just try to hard, I can be too hard on others who aren't as competent as myself, and I'm a big picture guy, who very occasionally misses the details. But I make sure I have someone detail-oriented on my team, like Dick". Well at least it can't be as bad as Steve "just blame the blacks" Sailer [Warning: Dodgy American racist site].
Talking of Dick, he's off to the region; an act of kindness and generosity by Bush which will reverberate through the State and history.
posted by Matthew @ 9/06/2005 03:40:00 PM
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