Pass The Buck - What A Surprise

So, the whole country - no wait, the whole world - has finally discovered your administration is completely incompetent; you have shown your true colors and have been called out for it by just about every news agency (including FOX, for goodness' sake!), as well as one of the most popular entertainers in the rap world (you go, Kanye!). What do you do?

Why, you do what you always do of course - blame someone else! In this case, try to pass the buck onto the local and state government for your lack of action. Never mind that they called for martial law, or that they had been trying to get aid and assistance into the area and it had been BLOCKED by federal agencies. There were breakdowns in the system on all levels, but let's face it - the final responsibility for relief and rescue during a disaster of this proportion lies at the federal level.

This is classic Bush administration/neocon work - slander whoever you can to try to avoid the blame, repeat as many times as necessary, and have your minions on conservative talk radio keep repeating it until the sheep actually start believing it to be true. However, as the following post from a thinking, rational person states, what they are attempting to do is false logic:

To address just one of these pathetic excuses, the attempt to shift the blame to the state and local governments is I believe a version of the fallacy known as Ad Hominem To Quoque, in which someone tries to defend a particular action, or inaction, by pointing out that others have done the same thing.In other words, maybe the state and local governments did screw up. So what? That doesn't mean Bush didn't screw up too. And, since he is the President, and since he's built his whole political career on the idea that he keeps Americans safe, the magnitude of his failure eclipses anything you could say about Ray Nagin or Kathleen Blanco.It's sort of like, you're on trial for murder, and your defense is that other people commit murder too. ~ Stephen Stralka

Thanks, Stephen, for letting me use your post to hit the point home.