The blame game

Sometimes it's the best game in town. And the most appropriate.

It might make sense to hold off on the criticism if this were the first big disaster on Mr. Bush's watch, or if the chain of mistakes in handling Hurricane Katrina were out of character. But even with the most generous possible assessment, this is the administration's second big policy disaster, after Iraq. And the chain of mistakes was perfectly in character.

The White House, of course, is against finger pointing, unless they're the ones doing it, or alternately, they can choose and aim the fingers.

Democrats in the US Congress denounced plans for a commission to probe government failings in responding to Hurricane Katrina, charging that the panel envisioned by ruling Republicans would result in a whitewash for the George W. Bush administration.
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Minority Leader Harry Reid said he had "serious concerns about whether their proposal will provide Americans the answers they deserve."

"An investigation of the Republican administration by a Republican-controlled Congress is like having a pitcher call his own balls and strikes," Reid said.

Don't expect a president who once said, "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier ... just so long as I'm the dictator" to see the problem with that.