Posted
1:41 PM
by Gene
Dubya "takes responsibility" for the hurricane, much as Ronald Reagan "took responsibility" for the massacre in Lebanon."Taking responsibility" is a meaningless phrase because it's a way of painlessly excising a pound of flesh for the hacks, and your enemies. But it's also meaningless because in a real sense the people uttering this verbiage have no responsibility, or exercise it so diffusely it has no force; thus responsibility lies with the people down below, who have their own means of unaccountability. In the end "taking responsibility" is just a kind of finger pointing without a finger.