{"id":1757,"date":"2005-09-13T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/breaking_bush_a\/"},"modified":"2005-09-13T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:35:04","slug":"breaking_bush_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/breaking_bush_a\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: BUSH ADMITS RESPONSIBILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess desperate poll numbers call for <a title=\"Bush: 'I take responsibility' for U.S. failures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/09\/13\/katrina.impact\/index.html\">drastic measures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn&#8217;t fully do its job right, I take responsibility,&#8221; Bush said during a joint news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.<br \/>\nBush said he wants to know what went right and what went wrong so that he can determine whether the United States was prepared for another storm, or an attack.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to defend the process going in, but I am going to defend the people who are on the front line of saving lives,&#8221; Bush said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just the <em>process<\/em> that&#8217;s at issue here; it&#8217;s also the people.  I haven&#8217;t heard any reporters asking Bush tough questions about what made &#8220;Brownie&#8221; qualified to run FEMA.<br \/>\nAnyway, as AMERICAblog <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/this-is-what-constitutes-breaking-news.html\">points out<\/a>, only in this administration would a straightforward recognition of responsibility be considered &#8220;breaking news.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/breaking_bush_a\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to BREAKING: BUSH ADMITS RESPONSIBILITY\"><p>I guess desperate poll numbers call for drastic measures: Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn&#8217;t fully do its job right, I take responsibility,&#8221; Bush said during a joint news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. Bush said he wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}