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I gotcher 'blame game' right here, bubba.

The NYT tells it like it is...

...we have learned through bitter experience - the Abu Ghraib nightmare is just one example - that when this administration begins an internal investigation, it means a whitewash in which no one important is held accountable and no real change occurs.

Mr. Bush signaled yesterday that we are in for more of the same when he sneered and said, "One of the things that people want us to do here is to play a blame game." This is not a game. It is critical to know what "things went wrong," as Mr. Bush put it. But we also need to know which officials failed - not to humiliate them, but to replace them with competent people.

Not that competence has ever been an issue at Bushco™, of course. If you're not crazy enough, you can buy your way in, but background? Experience? Ability?

No sweat, GI. As long as your toes are on the line, your job is in the bag.

This isn't about a 'blame game.' It's not about blame at all. It's about responsibility, and it's serious business. Deadly serious business. Things like this demand a response beyond spin…

WASHINGTON - The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security workers to support rescuers in the region — and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents.

It's criminal incompetence. People died because of that delay, be sure of it. Maybe dozens, maybe hundreds, maybe thousands.

So, Mr. Preznit, where's the buck stop today?