WP Cohen: The Buck Doesn't Stop

Cohen calls for resignations.

The Buck Doesn't Stop

By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, April 6, 2004; Page A21

What happened March 25 was that one Washington institution quoted another to ask a third about accountability. The questioner was PBS's Jim Lehrer, who cited the late James Reston of the New York Times to ask Donald Rumsfeld why no one in Washington ever resigns for just being wrong. Rumsfeld, oozing cockiness, turned the personal into the theoretical and waltzed away from the question. I don't blame him. If, say, a Japanese government had performed as badly as the Bush administration has, there would be no one left to turn out the lights.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53315-2004Apr5.html

now this guy wakes up

I was going through some email last night, and I came across a response Cohen sent after I wrote him about one of his columns. In it, he explained that while he didn't specifically call on Gore to concede the election when it became apparent that Florida would be contested (not true -- Cohen did say that), he felt that "Bush was better suited for the presidency -- that he was the less divisive figure."
Then he wrote:
"I didn't say he was smarter or would make a better president. The polls support him. Most Americans like Bush."

How lame -- typical inside-the-Beltway "wisdom."
I wonder if he still thinks he's less divisive.